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Five more held over Shahjahanpur double murder case
Detectives have arrested five more suspects over the murder of an Awami League leader and a female college student in Shahjahanpur area of the capital on March 24.
The arrestees are Md Shamim Hossain alias Mollah Shamim,35, Md Taufiq Hasan Babu,34, Md Sumon Hossain Sumon,35, Ehtesham Uddin alias Chowdhuri Apu,37 and Shariful Islam alias Hridoy,27.
Police arrested them conducting separate drives in the capital and Jashore's Benapole area on Monday, said Faruk Hossain, deputy commissioner (media and public relations) of DMP.
Besides, the law enforcers seized 2 foreign pistols, 8 rounds of bullets, 3 magazines and a motorcycle from their possession.
Earlier on July 31, DB police arrested two more suspects from the city’s Motijheel area.
Police have so far arrested 27 people in this connection, the DMP officer added.
Read:Shahjahanpur double murder: 2 more held in city
On the night of March 24, AL politician Zahidul Islam Tipu, who was on a microbus, and Samia Afrin Priti, a 22-year-old college student, who was returning home on a rickshaw, were killed in firing in front of Islami Bank Hospital at Shahjahanpur in the city.
Tipu was a former general secretary of the AL Motijheel committee and Priti was a student of Begum Badrunnesa Government College. Tipu’s driver was also injured in the firing.
They were all stuck in a traffic jam in the area when a biker wearing a helmet and a mask appeared from nowhere and fired at them.
The following day, a case was filed against unidentified people over the double murder.
On March 27, police arrested Akash, 34, the prime accused in the double murder case, from Bogura district.
On March 31, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detectives arrested Arfanullah conducting a drive in the city’s Kamalapur area.
On June 9, Sumon Shikdar Musa, the mastermind of Tipu murder, was brought back home from Oman.
According to the DB police, Musa went to Dubai on March 12 after hiring one Shamim Molla to kill AL politician Zahidul Islam Tipu. Later, he fled to Oman.
Following interrogation, police came to know that Musa was the mastermind of the murder and Arfan, Shamim and Manik were involved in the killing.
Shamim, who directly took part in the murder, fled to Bhutan after the murder.
Dhaka BRT girder tragedy: Preliminary probe report submitted
A six-member panel probing the Dhaka Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) girder tragedy has submitted a preliminary report to the government, UNB has learnt.
On Monday, five members of a family, including two children, were crushed to death after a girder of the BRT project in Uttara fell on their private car. A newlywed couple also travelling with them, fortunately escaped death.
On Monday itself, the Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges formed the six-member probe committee to investigate the tragedy.
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Nilima Akhter, additional secretary of the Road Transport and Highways Division, has been made the head of the committee. The panel has been asked to submit a full report within the next two days.
Meanwhile, a police case has been filed in connection with the tragedy that occurred around 4.15pm when the girder of the Gazipur Expressway fell on the car from a crane while it was being moved in front of Gazipur Paradise Tower.
The FIR for causing death due to negligence does not name anyone but lists the crane operator and the company responsible for the project, China Gezhouba Group Co Ltd, police said.
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"The case was filed at Uttara west police station on Monday night on a complaint from Afran Mondol, the brother of two of the deceased -- Fahima and Jhorna," said Md Mohsin, the station's officer-in-charge.
“The crane operator and China Gezhouba Group Co Ltd have been listed in the FIR,” said the OC. "Police will investigate if the negligence of the crane operator and others concerned led to the accident."
The deceased were identified as Rubel, 50, Fahima, 40, her sister Jhorna, 28, and Jhorna's two children Jannat, 6, and Jakaria, 2, said Yeasin Gazi, inspector of Uttara west police station.
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Rubel's son Hridoy, 26, and his wife Ria Moni, 21, escaped with serious injuries and were rushed to a local hospital. "They are currently out of danger," said the officer.
FIR lodged over Dhaka BRT girder tragedy
A police case has been filed in connection with the Dhaka Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) girder tragedy that claimed the lives of five people, all of a family, on Monday.
The FIR for causing death due to negligence does not name anyone but lists the crane operator and the company responsible for the project, China Gezhouba Group Co Ltd, police said.
"The case was filed at Uttara west police station on Monday night on a complaint from Afran Mondol, the brother of two of the deceased -- Fahima and Jhorna," said Md Mohsin, the station's officer-in-charge.
“The crane operator and China Gezhouba Group Co Ltd have been listed in the FIR,” said the OC. "Police will investigate if the negligence of the crane operator and others concerned led to the accident."
Also read: BRT kills again: 5 crushed inside car as girder falls off crane
On Monday, the five, including two children, died after one girder of the BRT project fell on their private car. A newlywed couple also travelling in the same car, fortunately escaped death.
The deceased were identified as Rubel, 50, Fahima, 40, her sister Jhorna, 28, and Jhorna's two children Jannat, 6, and Jakaria, 2, said Yeasin Gazi, inspector of Uttara west police station.
Rubel's son Hridoy, 26, and his wife Ria Moni, 21, escaped with serious injuries and were rushed to a local hospital. "They are currently out of danger," said the officer.
Fahima was Ria Moni's mopther said her brother, Afran Mondol.
The accident occurred around 4.15pm when the girder of the Gazipur Expressway fell on the car from a crane while it was being moved in front of Gazipur Paradise Tower, he added.
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Firefighters recovered the five bodies from the ill-fated car and handed those over to the police.
A family member said Hridoy and Ria Moni got married on Saturday and were going to the latter's house in Gazipur, along with five other relatives, in the car that afternoon.
Hridoy's father Rubel was driving the car when the girder fell on the vehicle.
The tragedy occurred exactly a month after a worker was killed by a falling crane in the Gazipur part of the project.
Also, last year, six workers escaped with injuries after a part of a launching girder collapsed near them, close to Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
Tiktoker held under DSA for making ‘derogatory remarks’ on PM, police
Police arrested a young man from Beanibazar upazila of Sylhet allegedly for derogatory comments on the Prime Minister and police on short-form video hosting platform TikTok on Sunday night.The arrestee is Mohi Uddin Manna,25, son of Manik Mia of Muchegul village of Baralekha Upazila of Moulvibazar. He used to live in a rented house in Mallapur village.On Sunday night, police conducted a drive in Dakshin Bazar of Sylhet's Beanibazar and arrested him from his tea shop, Police Inspector (Investigation) of Biyanibazar Police Station, Mehdi Hasan, said.
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Manna made derogatory remarks and spread propaganda against the Prime Minister and police on his Tiktok ID over the recent price hike of fuel oil, added the officer.Chhatra League leader Zahidul Haque Tahmid lodged a complaint under the Digital Security Act at Beanibazar Police Station as the plaintiff.He will be produced before the court on Monday.
Convict husband held after 21 years over killing wife for dowry
A fugitive convict who was sentenced to death in a case filed for burning his wife to death by pouring petrol on her body in Singair upazila of Manikganj, was detained by the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) from Bangshal area of the capital.The convict was identified as Md Alam,40, of Atipara village of Singair.
Read: DMCH interns suspend strikeThe elite force RAB detained Tota from the capital on Saturday night, twenty-one years after the murder of his wife Ambia in 2001.Acting on a tip-off, a team of Rab-4 arrested Alam from a shoe factory in Dhaka's Bangshal area Saturday night, according to the media statement of Rab-4.On September 5, 2001, Alam poured petrol on his wife Ambia Begum and set her on fire at Atipara village in Singair for not getting a dowry.Ambia died while undergoing treatment at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital the following day.
Read: Fugitive convict held in cityOn September 7, the victim's father, M Maqbul Hossain, lodged a complaint with Singair Police accusing five.Later, Police registered an FIR in this connection.On November 30, 2003, a judge of Manikganj Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal sentenced Alam to death in the murder case.
Fugitive convict held in city
A fugitive convict, sentenced to life imprisonment in Zillur Bhandari of Rangunia upazila in Chattogram district, was detained by the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) from Kamarpara in Turag of the capital, said Rab on Sunday.
The convict was identified as Tota Mia.
Md Nurul Absar, Senior Assistant director of Rab-7, said the elite force detained Tota from the capital on Saturday night, seven years after the murder of Zillur Bhandari in 2015.
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Zillur Bhandari was shot dead by miscreants in front of Ranirhat Primary School in Rangunia upazila on January 21, 2015.
Azim Uddin, brother of Zillur, lodged a complaint with Rangunia Police.
Police registered an FIR in this connection.
On February 14, 2022, a court sentenced two people to death and six others to life imprisonment.
4 tourists rescued from Cox’s Bazar cottage; members of extortion gang arrested
Police arrested two members of an extortion gang in a case filed over kidnapping four tourists and keeping them in captivity at a Kolatoli cottage in Cox's Bazar.
The arrestees were identified as Rashedul Islam, 25, and Md Shakil, 22, from Islampur area at Eidgaon upazila in Cox’s Bazar, said Md Rezaul Karim, Additional Superintendent of Cox’s Bazar tourist police on Sunday.
They were arrested on Sunday night from Sugandha point of the beach.
Also read: 4 rescued from Cox's Bazar cottage; 11 extortion gang members held
“The arrestees in primary interrogation confessed they were part of a gang of at least 11 people who used to trap tourists to come to Sheuli cottage and later involved them in women and drugs related scandals to blackmail and extort money,”said Additional SP Rezaul Karim.
“They used to capture objectionable photos of the tourists secretly and later threaten to spread them through the internet. As a result none of the people who became victims of this gang’s ploy so far reported the matter to police,” he said.
A case was filed in this regard against four named people and seven or eight anonymous people in this regard at Cox’s bazar sadar police station.
“Two of the named accused have been arrested and efforts are on to arrest others,” said Additional SP Rezaul karim.
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On August 7, a team of Tourist Police raided Sheuli Cottage at night and rescued four people from captivity of a gang, members of whom managed to flee.
Two of the rescued people came to Kolatoli with patients and went to Sheuli Cottage to spend the night as some of the gang members offered rooms at low rates, said police.
When the tourists refused to pay the inflated prices later claimed by the gang members, they locked the rooms from outside, said police.
HC directs Laxmipur UP Chairman Selim Khan to surrender within 3 weeks
The High Court on Sunday directed controversial Laxmipur UP Chairman Md Selim Khan to surrender to the trial court within three weeks in a case filed over acquiring Tk 34 crore illegal assets through unauthorised sand mining.
Bench of Justice Mostafa Zaman Islam and Justice Md Seim passed the order rejecting his bail plea during a hearing.
Advocate Khorshed Alam appeared for chairman Selim while advocate Fowzia Akter Popy represented Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
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On August 1, ACC’s assistant director Ataur Rahman filed the case against Selim Khan for acquiring assets worth Tk 34.53 Crore illegally.
According to the complaint, Selim Khan acquired Tk 34,53, 81,119 crore worth assets which exceeds his known income and he concealed information about his Tk 66.99 lakh worth assets.
Earlier on August 8, the appellate division of the Supreme Court ruled that Md Selim Khan must pay a huge amount in royalties against sand extraction from the Meghna river bank.
It said since 2016, writ petitioner Selim Khan had been extracting sand from the Meghna river in a part of Chandpur Sadar and Haimchar indiscriminately, without paying any royalties, causing the government to incur a huge loss.
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Appellate Division asked to collect the royalties from Selim Khan for the time period starting from April 5, 2018, the date of an earlier High Court order, to April 4, 2022 -when the order was suspended by the Supreme Court.
Home Minister drops in on Bachelet
If any law enforcers picks up someone, they have to be produced before the court within 24 hours, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Sunday.
“Those who are observing the ‘EnForced Disappearance Day’ with many information and documents, are doing this centering a purpose. But the law enforcement agencies, who picked up someone from any place, produced them before the court within 24 hours,” he said.
Asaduzzaman came up with the remark while talking to reporters after meeting with visiting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet at State guesthouse Padma on Sunday afternoon.
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Law Minister Anisul Huq and Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen also met Bachelet separately.
Earlier, Bachelet discussed the issues of forced disappearances, freedom of media, human rights and others.
Talking about the victims of enforced disappearances, Asaduzzaman, said allegations of sabotage activities were brought against some of them while many of them were disturbed for family feud and many of them were in hiding of their own accord.
Many of them have been on the run due to lack of success in business, loan defaulters and other reasons, he said adding “If anyone went on disappearance of self then it is difficult to find him/her.”
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Referring to the Myanmar issue, the minister said Myanmar did not keep their word in taking back Rohingyas.
“Bachelet said that Myanmar is not in a good position that’s why Rohingyas are reluctant to go to their own country but the UN is working to bring back the Rohingyas,” he said.
Husband who killed wife for dowry in Pabna sentenced to death
A Pabna court on Sunday sentenced a man to death in a case filed over the killing of his wife for dowry in 2013.
It also fined the convict Tk 50,000 and acquitted three others from the charges while handing down the verdict.
The convict is identified as Sifat Ali, son of Robbel of Dhulauda Schoolpara under Chatmohar upazila in the district. He was present in the dock during the verdict.
According to the case statement, Sifat used to beat up his wife Nasima Khatun, mother of two offspring, for dowry.
As she didn’t abide by his orders to bring money from her father’s house, Sifat and his family members beat her mercilessly and strangled her to death following a brawl on September 26 in 2013.
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Later, the victim’s father filed a murder case against five persons making Sifat main accused with the concerned police station.
Police pressed charge sheet accusing the persons on January 15 in the next year while the court delivered the verdict after testifying nine witnesses on Sunday.
Expressing discontent, the convict’s counsel Iti Hossain said they will move the High Court with an appeal.