Former Awami League MP Pinu Khan’s son Bakhtiar Alam Rony – sentenced to life imprisonment for a double murder in Eskaton – was refused bail on Wednesday.

The High Court bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice Shahed Nuruddin passed the order.

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Advocate Motahar Hossain stood for Rony while Deputy Attorney General ABM Abdullah Al Mahmud Bashar represented the state.

On January 30, 2019, a Dhaka court sentenced Rony to life imprisonment. He was also fined Tk50,000 and also handed another six months of imprisonment for failing to pay it.

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The court said it put Rony behind bars for life considering his psychological and physical conditions at the time of the incident.

On April 13, 2015, a drunken Rony fired gunshots from his car in the capital’s New Eskaton, injuring rickshaw-puller Abdul Hakim and auto-rickshaw driver Yakub.

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Hakim died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on April 15 and Yakub on April 23.

A case was filed with Ramna Police Station against unidentified people on April 15. And Rony was arrested from his Dhanmondi residence on June 1.

The court was initially scheduled to deliver the verdict on May 8 last year. It was deferred as Judge Md Al Mamun said he could not prepare the judgment. 

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The court pushed back the verdict date again, to October 4, after the prosecution filed a petition to summon the investigation officer for a rehearing.

Hearing of the arguments concluded on January 15. Then, the court said it would deliver the verdict on January 30.

The High Court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to 178 leaders and activists of BNP in connection with the cases over the arson attacks on buses including two government staff buses and a BRTC double-decker bus in different parts of the city.

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The HC bench of Justice Md. Habibul Gani passed the order after hearing 36 petitions.

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Jubo Dal vice-chairman Abdul Baten Shamim Rabiul Alam was among the accused.

The bail will remain in force till February 7 and during this period they have to surrender before the judicial court, said Barrister Kaisar Kamal, a counsel of the accused.

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A number of buses were torched in separate places of the capital including Uttara, Kalabagan, Shahbagh, Motijheel and Paltan areas of the city on November 12 cantering the by election of Dhaka-18 constituency.

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Separate cases were filed against the leaders and activists of BNP in connection with the incident.

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A man convicted of raping his own daughter has been sentenced to life in prison.

Md. Nejam Uddin, 40, a carpenter of Vujpur, Chattogram stood accused of raping his 12-year-old daughter. Chattogram Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-7 judge Munshi Abdul Majid found him guilty in a judgment announced today.

The public prosecutor of the tribunal Kh. Ariful Alam confirmed the matter and said Nejam is facing his sentence under two separate sections. 

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He said the tribunal additionally fined the convict Tk 20,000 and also sentenced him to life imprisonment under section 9(1). Under another section 9(4)(B) he is liable to pay Tk 5,000 and sentenced to five years in prison. If he fails to pay, he would face rigorous imprisonment for another three years and three months.

Eleven witnesses testified in the case proceedings, he added. 

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According to the court statement, Nejam sexually violated his daughter several times. After the abuse came to light, locals first resorted to local Chairman Rustom Ali. Later they handed him over to Police. 

Nejam's wife filed a case against her husband with Vujpur Police Station. 

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On 30 October 2019, the Police submitted a charge sheet against the accused. The court later lodged charges against the convict and ordered starting the trial on March 5, 2020.

A Meherpur court on Tuesday sentenced a couple to hang for throttling the man's second wife to death in 2010.

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Meherpur additional district and sessions judge Ripti Kumar Biswash handed down the death sentence to Saidul Islam and his first wife Jamela Khatun of Ichakhali village in Sadar upazila, after convicting the duo of the murder.

The court also imposed a fine of Tk 10,000 each on the two convicts.

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According to the prosecution, Jarina, the second wife of Saiful, went missing on January 31, 2010. A week later, police discovered the body of Jarina from a farm land at Jadabpur village in Sadar upazila.

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On a complaint filed by Ferdousi Khatun, the sister of the deceased, against five suspects, Saidul and his first wife Jamela were arrested and the duo subsequently confessed to the crime before a magistrate under Section 164 of CrPC.

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Later, police submitted a chargesheet against the couple.

Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) on Monday filed cases against two refuelling stations in the city for fraudulence in fuel measurement.

The mobile court, arranged by the BSTI, also fined the two filling stations Tk 75, 000, said a press release.

The two refuelling stations are M/S Gulshan Service Station located at Mohakhali and M/S Trust Filling Station at Tejgaon.

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Gulshan Service Station was providing 90ml less per 10 litres of octane and Trust Filling Station was providing 50-60ml less in 10 litres of octane and 50ml less in 10-litre diesel.

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Besides, the mobile court, led by Executive Magistrate of BSTI Muhammad Amimul Ehsan, ordered the two filling stations to keep the fuel sale suspended through their flawed dispensing units.

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