Law-&-Order
Man to die, another gets life imprisonment for 2019 killing of child in Faridpur
A court in Faridpur on Sunday sentenced a man to death and another to life term imprisonment for killing an 8-year-old boy in 2019.
The condemned convicts were Md Zinder Khalifa, son of Tuku Khalifa of Meherdia village of Nagarkanda upazila and Mahabul Sheikh, son of Kaju Sheikh of the same area.
Judge Md. Hafizur Rahman of Faridpur Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal (District and Session Judge) handed down the judgement in the presence of two convicts, said Public Prosecutor Swapan Pal.
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PP Swapan Pal said victim Abu Bakkar, 8, son of Pachu Khalifa of Meherdia village of Nagarkanda upazila of the district, went to Purapara market in the afternoon of July 1, 2019.
Mahabul Sheikh abducted Bakkar from the market.
Later, Zinder Khalifa and Mahabul demanded Tk 3 lakh from the child's father as ransom.
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As Bakkar's father refused to pay the ransom, they killed the child and buried him in the garbage of a canal, PP Swapan Pal added.
Later, a case was filed at Nagarkanda police station following a complaint lodged by Pachu Khalifa.
HC orders to submit a list of GI products for registration
The High Court on Monday directed the authorities concerned to submit a list of products already registered as Geographical Indications (GI) and those required to be registered at home and abroad.
The HC bench of Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar and Justice Sardar Md Rashed Jahangir passed the order following a writ filed by Barrister Sarwat Siraj Shukla.
The court has fixed March 19 for submission of this list.
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The court also issued a rule asking officials concerned including industries, the commerce secretary, agriculture secretary and cultural affairs secretary to explain in four weeks as to why it shall not declare their failure in preparing the list and register the GI products as illegal.
Barrister Sarwat Siraj Sarwat Siraj Shukla filed the writ on Sunday, seeking directions for the preparation of a consolidated list of GI products.
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She represented herself at tthe court during the hearing of the writ.
No specific security threat centering Shaheed Day: DMP Commissioner
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Habibur Rahman said on Monday there is no specific security threat centering the observance of Shaheed Day and International Mother Language Day on February 21 but police have taken all necessary measures.
He said this while talking to reporters after visiting security measures at Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka in the morning.
The entire area will be kept under monitoring of CCTV cameras while bomb disposal, SWAT, fire service, medical and other teams will be remain stand-by, Habibur said .
Security measures have been taken through patrolling with drone and mobile in the Shaheed Minar area, he said.
About the foolproof security measure for the month-long Ekushey book fair, he said that a control room has been set up there and all kinds of security equipment and security units are working there through cameras.
Police are vigilant to tackle any situation like deterioration of law and order, he said, adding that measures have been taken to control traffic congestion centering the observation of the 21st February.
He said movement of vehicles will remain restricted on some roads and vehicles will be able to enter and exit through some designated roads.
Mother, daughter hacked to death in Gopalganj
A woman and her SSC examinee daughter were hacked to death over land dispute in Durgapur village under Gopalganj sadar upazila on Sunday (February 18, 2024) night.
The deceased were identified as Beauty Begum, 40, and her daughter Lamia, 16, of Durgapur village under Jalalabad union of the upazila. The daughter was an SSC examinee from Khalia United Academy.
Police and locals there had been a long dispute between Lamia’s father Tuku and her uncle Harun over ancestral land in the village.
Around 7:30 am on Sunday, as Lamia entered uncle Harun’s yard while talking on her mobile phone he asked her to leave the yard and hurled abusive words, leading to an altercation between Lamia’s mother Beauty and her uncle.
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At one stage of the altercation over the matter, Harun, equipped with sharp weapons, hacked Beauty and Lamia, leaving them critically injured.
Hearing their screams, locals rushed in and took them to 250-bed Adhunik Hospital in Sadar upazila where physicians declared them dead upon arrival.
Sadar police station Officer-in-Charge (investigation) Harun-Or-Rashid though the accused and his family went into hiding shortly after the murders police managed to arrest Harun.
The bodies were sent to the Sadar hospital morgue for autopsy, the police officer added.
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Ideal College Scandal: Tisha's father files GD over death threat
The father of Cynthia Islam Tisha, a student of Ideal School and College, who married Khandaker Mushtaq Ahmed, a donor member of the Management Committee, filed a general diary (GD) with Mugda Police on Saturday, alleging that he received a threat.
Tarikuzzaman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Mugda Police Station, said they received a complaint from Tisha's father Saiful Islam.
“We have already started an investigation in this regard,” he added.
Besides, Saiful Islam also went to the DB office around 3:30 pm on Sunday and submitted a written complaint.
Saiful Islam told the media that Khandaker Mushtaq Ahmed is threatening him in various ways. "Earlier, he also threatened to kill me. I think Mushtaq is threatening me through his men in various ways to put pressure on me. Legal action is needed in this matter. That's why I filed a GD at Mugda Police Station on Saturday, and today I made a written complaint to DB,” he added.
According to the GD, Tisha’s father received a WhatsApp call from an unknown person at 10:38 am on February 12 in which the individual threatened to kill his daughter.
“The caller also threatened him not to overstep boundaries," the GD states.
Regarding the complaint, Chief of Detective Branch (DB) of Police Mohammad Harun-or-Rashid, said they will investigate the matter.
Pinaki Bhattacharya, 6 others sued under CSA
A case has been filed against writer and online activist Pinaki Bhattacharya and six others under the Cyber Security Act (CSA) for allegedly spreading propaganda, making derogatory remarks and uploading distorted photos of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina using social media including YouTube.
Muktijoddha Mancha Sylhet chapter’s Vice President Abdur Rahman filed the case with the court of Sylhet Cyber Tribunal on Sunday, plaintiff’s lawyer Tipu Ranjan Das confirmed.
The others accused are Nazmul Islam, Shahriar Hossain Saqib (SH), Facebook page 'Fight for Democracy' admin Shakeel Ahmed, Facebooker Md. Hasan Mia (Hasan), Md. Abdul Hadi and Md. Rezaul Karim.
Taking the allegations into cognisance, Judge Md Monir Kamal ordered CID Sylhet Zone to investigate and submit a report.
According to the case statement, the accused recently uploaded distorted photos of Sheikh Hasina on YouTube and made derogatory remarks.
Death of domestic help: Daily Star journalist, wife land in jail after remand
A Dhaka court on Sunday sent Daily Star executive editor Syed Ashfaqul Haque and his wife Tania Khandaker to jail after a 4-day remand in a case over the death of a domestic worker who fell off their flat on the eighth floor of a building in the city's Mohammadpur.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury passed the order when police produced them before the court on completion of their remand.
On February 13, the court put Ashfaqul and his wife Tania on a four-day remand each in the case when Nazmul Hasan, in-charge of Mohammadpur police station and also the investigating officer of the case, produced them before the court with a 10-day demand prayer.
Advocate Chaitanno Chandra Haldar filed a petition seeking bail for his clients.
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On February 7, the court sent the couple to jail after rejecting their remand and bail petitions.
The court asked police to interrogate them in jail gate for three days.
Fifteen-year old Preeti Urang, daughter of Moulvibazar’s Lokesh Urang, used to work as a domestic help at the flat of Ashfaqul in the capital’s Mohammadpur and she died falling from the flat on February 6.
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Preeti had been working at the house of Ashfaqul for two years.
Preeti’s father Lokesh Urang filed a case under 304(Ka) of Penal Code after her death.
Faridpur’s Rubel, his associate get 17 years jail in arms case
A Faridpur court on Sunday sentenced 17 years imprisonment to Imtiaz Hasan Rubel, former president of Faridpur Press Club, and his associate Rezaul Karim Bipul in a case filed under the Arms Act.
Faridpur District and Sessions Judge Ashok Kumar Datta handed down the punishment in presence of the convicts.
The court sentenced them to 10 years jail for possessing arms while another seven years jail for possessing bullets.
According to the prosecution, Rubel is the brother of expelled general secretary of Faridpur district unit Awami League Sazzad Hossain Barkat.
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The siblings were close associates of former local government, rural development and cooperatives (LGRD) minister and former lawmaker of Faridpur-3 constituency Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain.
Barkat and Rubel were arrested on June 7, 2020 for attacking then president of district unit Awami League Subal Chandra Saha’s house. Seven more associates of Barkat-Rubel were also arrested in this connection.
Abdul Jabbar, sub-inspector of Faridpur DB police, filed a case under the Arms Act.
Two separate cases were filed against expelled AL leader Barkat, Rubel and Bipul.
Barkat and Rubel were also wanted in 11 more cases including one over laundering Tk 2000 crore.
Sheltered and supported by former Faridpur sadar upazila chairman Khondokar Mohtesham Hasan, and Jubo League leader AHM Fuad, the two brothers illegally acquired assets worth Tk 3,000 crore by controlling tender, trading commissions, drug trade, and extortion from the transportation sector.
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Rubel grabbed the position of Faridpur Press Club president despite never being a journalist.
Of this asset Tk 2,535 crore has already been laundered to foreign countries through Hundi.
The case is currently under trial against 51 people including 10 named in the charge sheet.
Police's CTTC unit investigating human trafficking case against 5 Bangladeshis filed by US Embassy
The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has been investigating a case filed by the US embassy in Dhaka over human trafficking allegations against five Bangladeshis.
Shahanur Rahman, inspector (Investigation) of Gulshan police station, told UNB that the case was filed by security attache of the US Embassy in Dhaka Michael Lee with the police station on February 10, accusing Mofizur Rahman, Mohammad Nur Alam, Ashraful Alam Bhuiyan, Mohammed Zaman, and one Vasani.
The case was transferred to the CTTC unit from Gulshan police station considering the importance of the case, he added.
Gulshan police arrested Mofizur Rahman and Ashraful Alam Bhuiyan on the same day, Inspector Shahanur added.
"We have already handed them over to the CTTC unit," said the officer.
Fugitive convict in 27 cases arrested from Ashulia
Police arrested a fugitive convict from Dhaka's Ashulia area early Friday.
Arrestee Mofazzal Hossain, 43, is a resident of Dhirashram Road in Samantapur area of Gazipur.
Mofazzal was accused in twenty-seven cases, said Utpal Kumar, sub-inspector (SI) of Gazipur Metropolitan Police Sadar Police Station.
Tipped off, police conducted a drive in the Dhaka EPZ area in the small hours of Friday and arrested him, he added.
He remained absconding for the last 5 years, SI Utpal said.
Further legal action is under process against the arrestee, he added.