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4 ‘muggers’ held over killing dentist in city
Dhaka, Mar 30 (UNB)—Police on Wednesday arrested four suspected muggers from the city’s Mirpur area in connection with the murder of a dentist at Shewrapara in the capital.
The arrestees were Raihan Sohel alias Apan, 27, Rasel Hossain Hawlader, 25, Ariyan Khan Ridoy, 23, and Solaiman, 23.
Dentist Ahmed Mahi Bulbul was stabbed to death by a professional mugging gang, said AKM Hafiz Akhter, additional commissioner (detectives) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police at a press briefing.
During preliminary interrogation, the arrestees confessed that they are professional muggers.
Five people including the four arrestees gathered on Begum Rokeya Sarani Road to rob the dentist coming on an auto-rickshaw, according to the detectives.
Read: Dentist stabbed dead ‘by muggers’ in city
On Sunday, when the auto-rickshaw carrying Bulbul reached Kazipara Begum Rokeya Sarani Road in front of Navana Showroom, the five muggers intercepted the vehicle and attempted to snatch his valuables, said the official.
At one point, the muggers stabbed the doctor as he resisted the mugging.
Later, he was rushed to Al-Helal Hospital first and then to Suhrawardi Medical College and Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
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Police also recovered cash Tk 12,000 and a mobile phone set from his possession.
Ahmed Mahi Bulbul used to work in a clinic at Moghbazar. He was known as ‘Gariber Doctor’ (The doctor of the poor) in his locality.
An operation is on to arrest the other member of the gang, said AKM Hafiz Akhter.
Blogger Ananta killing: 4 sentenced to death
A Sylhet tribunal on Monday sentenced four people to death in blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder case.
Sylhet Anti-Terrorism Tribunal Judge Nurul Amin Biplab pronounced the judgment.
Read:4 to die for killing three-wheeler driver in Khulna
The condemned convicts are—Abul Hossain, 25, Foysal Ahmed, 27, Abul Khayer Rashid Ahmed, 25 of Kanaighat upazila and Mamunur Rashid, 25 of Tahirpur upazila in Sunamganj district.
Among them, Rashid was present on the dock while the others were tried in absentia.
The court acquitted Shafiur Rahman Farabi.
Besides, another accused in the case Manan Yeahia died on November 2, 2017 while undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.
According to the prosecution, blogger Ananta, also an activist of Sylhet Ganajagaran Mancha, was hacked to death some assailants in broad daylight at Subidbazar Bankalapara in Sylhet May 12, 2015.
Rateshwar Das, elder brother of Ananta Bijoy, filed a case against four people with Airport Police Station the following day.
Ananta Bijoy was also a writer in the ‘Mukto-Mona blog’, founded by blogger Avijit Roy - who had been murdered by some assailants in 2015.
On May 9, 2017, CID inspector Arman Ali submitted a chargesheet against six people in the case.
The case was shifted to the Anti-terrorism Tribunal in 2020.
Read:Verdict in Humayun Azad murder case on April 13
On March 2, 2015, a Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) team arrested Farabi from Jatrabari bus stand in the capital while Julhas Bishwas and Abul Bashar were arrested from Fakirerpool area of the capital on September 10 for their alleged involvement in the blogger Avijit Roy killing.
They were shown arrested in the blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder case.
Farabi was sentenced to life imprisonment in blogger Avijit killing case.
4 to die for killing three-wheeler driver in Khulna
A Khulna Court on Tuesday sentenced four people to death for killing a three-wheeler driver in 2016.
Khulna Additional District and Sessions Judge SM Ashiqur Rahman handed down the judgment.
Read:4 to die for killing schoolboy in N’ganj
The condemned convicts are- Md Nur Islam, Jony Das, of Kishoreganj district, Md Rony Shikdar and Md Masud Rana Mollah, of Chattogram district.
The court also fined the four Tk 50,000 each.
According to the case statement, the convicts strangled driver Wahidur Rahman Ripon to death at Labanachara of the city on January 11 in 2016 to snatch his three-wheeler.
They stabbed Wahidur to confirm the death and fled with the vehicle.
Read: Man to die for killing wife in Feni
Later, the four people with the vehicle were arrested from Kashiani in Gopalganj district. Ripon's brother filed a case at Labanchara police station against them, said state counsel Kazi Sabbir Ahmed.
The accused gave statements before the court confessing to their guilt. On December 31, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Inspector Mir Atahar Ali, the investigating officer in the case, submitted a chargesheet against the four.
8 held over clash at Benapole port, trade resumes
Trade at Benapole land port resumed on Tuesday morning after around 24 hours of suspension following a clashe between two groups over taking control of the port’s contracting job.
Import-export activities and loading and unloading of goods resumed 10 am again and 50 trucks entered the land port from India with imported goods until 11 pm, said Abdul Jalil, Deputy Director (traffic) of Benapole land port.
Read: Dozens injured in bomb attack in Benapole port, trade halted
Meanwhile, a case was filed against 36 people in connection with the clashe and eight people were arrested, said Kamal Hossain Bhuiyan, officer-in-charge of Benapole port police station.
Govt panel to probe Rajshahi farmers' suicides
The Agriculture Ministry has formed a four-member panel to probe the deaths of two farmers in Rajshahi, who allegedly ended their lives for not getting irrigation water for their land.
The committee has been asked to submit its report within a week, the Ministry said in a notification.
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Md Abu Jubayer Hossain Bablu, a joint secretary of the ministry, has been made the convenor of the committee while Additional Deputy Commissioner (Revenue) Muhammad Shariful Hauque, representative of Rajshahi Deputy Commissioner, Md Sazzad Hossain, executive engineer of Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC), Natore, and Md Shamsher Ali, executive engineer, Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA), Naogao, are its other members.
As per the notification, the committee was formed based on two reports published by two media outlets on March 24 and 27, respectively.
On March 24, Rabi Marandi, 32, a Santal community member of Nimghatu village in Godagari upazila, and his cousin Abhinath, 30, consumed poison in front of Shakhawat Hossain, a deep tubewell operator of the Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA).
They took the decision out of anger "as Shakhawat was not giving them a serial number for a long time to get irrigation water supplied to their fields in Iswarpur", according to their family.
Read: Verdict in Humayun Azad murder case on April 13
Abhinath died around 9pm after reaching home on March 24, while Rabi died two days later at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH).
Brigadier General Shamim Yazdani, director of RMCH, confirmed both the brothers died from consumption of poison.
Shahjahanpur double murder: Prime accused put on 7-day police remand
A Dhaka court on Monday placed Masum Md Akash, the prime accused in the murder of an Awami League politician and a female college student in Shahjahanpur, on a seven-day police remand.
Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Tofazzal Hossain passed the order when DB inspector Yeasin Shikder produced him before the court with 15-day remand prayer.
Police on Sunday arrested Akash, 34, from Bogura district.
Also read: AL politician among two dead in Dhaka shooting
AL politician Zahidul Islam Tipu, who was in a microbus, and Samia Afrin Priti, a 22-year-old college student, who was in a rickshaw on Thursday night were killed in firing, police said.
During police interrogation, Akash admitted that he followed Tipu to kill and when the vehicle carrying Tipu reached near Shahjahanpur Rail gate he opened fire on him.
Akash was also wanted in four other criminal cases, said police.
Tipu was a former general secretary of AL Motijheel committee and Priti was a student of Begum Badrunnesa Government College. Tipu’s driver was also injured.
The crime occurred in front of Islami Bank Hospital around 10.15pm when Zahidul was returning home in his microbus and Samia on a rickshaw with her friend, police said.
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.
Also read: Shahjahanpur double murder: Main accused held
The three sustained bullet injuries and were soon rushed to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, where Zahidul and the student died of their injuries hours later.
Later a case was filed against unidentified people over the double murder on Friday.
Verdict in Humayun Azad murder case on April 13
The judgment in the murder case of ex-Dhaka University teacher and writer Prof Humayun Azad will be delivered on April 13.
Dhaka’s Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge fixed the date on Sunday.
On February 27 in 2004, Prof Humayun Azad sustained severe injuries when some miscreants hacked him indiscriminately at Amar Ekushey Book Fair in Bangla Academy premises.
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The following day, Humayun Azad's brother Manjur Kabir filed a case of attempted murder at Ramna police station.
After the attack, he was undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka for 22 days and at Bangkok for 48 days. He was shifted to Germany the same year where he died on August 12.
The case later turned into a murder case with his death.
On November 14 in 2007, Kazi Abdul Malek, inspector of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) submitted chargesheet against five militants including the Chief of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) Shaykh Abdur Rahman.
However, on March 30 of the same year, Shaykh Abdur Rahman and Ataur Rahman were hanged in another murder case of two judges in Jhalokati.
After reinvestigating, CID inspector Lutfar Rahman, the main investigating officer in the case, pressed charges against the five accused on April 30 in 2012.
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The accused in the case are Mizanur Rahman alias Minhaz alias Shafiq, Anwar Alam alias Bhagne Shahid, Salehin alias Salahuddin, Hafiz Mahmud and Nur Mohammad alias Sabu.
Among them, accused Nur Mohammad alias Sabu is absconding. Meanwhile, two accused Salahuddin alias Salehin and Rakibul Hasan alias Hafiz Mahmud were snatched from a prison van on February 23 in 2014. However, Rakib was caught that night and later died in a 'gunfight' with the police.
Shahjahanpur double murder: Main accused held
Police said on Sunday that they arrested the prime accused in the killing of an Awami League politician and a female college student in city’s Shahjahanpur from Bogura district on Sunday.
Arrestee Masum Mohammad Akash, 34, admitted to have shot and killed AL politician Zahidul Islam Tipu, who was in a microbus, and Samia Afrin Preeti, a 22-year-old college, who was a rickshaw stuck in a jam on Thursday night, police said.
Tipped off, Khilgaon Zonal team of Detective Branch (Motijheel Division) under Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), conducted a drive in Bogura district with the help of local police and arrested Akash, said Faruk Hossain, deputy commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
During police interrogation, Akash admitted that he followed Tipu to kill and when the vehicle carrying Tipu reached near Shahjahanpur Rail gate he opened fire on him.
Akash was also wanted in four other criminal cases, said police.
Read:Shahjahanpur murders: Perpetrators not to be spared
Briefing reporters at DMP media centre on Sunday afternoon, Additional Commissioner (DB) of the DMP KM Hafiz Akhtar said
the day before the killing shooter Akash planned to kill him. He followed Tipu when he was on his way home from a restaurant but failed because there were too many people.
After the killing, the shooter Masum was supposed to leave the country through the border. For this reason, he left for Joypurhat by a rented car on the day of the incident. He was supposed to cross the border from there. Unable to go on the first day, Masum moved to Bogra. The next day he was to cross the border to India. Later, a team of Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Police arrested Masum with the help of Bogra district Superintendent of Police (SP), he said.
Hafiz said one of Akash's associates was also behind the incident and he would be arrested. Police also hope to find the motorcycles and weapons used in the murder.
Asked how much money was contracted for Tipu's murder, the DB chief said it was not known how much. However, there are several cases in the area against arrested Akash. He got the contract to kill Tipu to escape from those cases, he added.
On the day of the incident, on March 24, an unidentified person stayed at the Grand Sultan restaurant owned by Tipu and started to update Akash. The shooter then shot and killed Tipu on his way home. Preeti Jamal, a ricksha passenger and also a college student, killed in the same firing.
Replying to another question, Hafiz said, "Our data, the information obtained from the investigation, the information collected from the previous day all tell us that Akash was the shooter in Tipu's murder." He also admitted that he fired the shots.
According to DB, Akash runs has a dish cable business in Goran area of the capital. After he called his wife after the killing, it was confirmed that he had killed Tipu.
Read: Case filed over Shahjahanpur double murder
Tipu was a former general secretary of AL Motijheel committee and Priti was a student of Begum Badrunnesa Government College, were killed. Tipu’s driver was injured.
The crime occurred in front of Islami Bank Hospital around 10.15pm when Zahidul was returning home in his car and Samia on a cycle rickshaw with her friend, police said.
"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 three sustained bullet injuries and were soon rushed to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, where Zahidul and the student died of their injuries hours later.
Later a case has been filed against unidentified people over the double murder on Friday.
Shahjahanpur murders: Perpetrators not to be spared
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said those involved in Thursday's double murder in the capital's Shajahanpur area will be brought to justice and no offender will be spared.
"Criminals will be brought to justice, no matter who they are,” he said while talking to reporters at his Dhanmondi residence on Friday evening.
Detective Branch (DB) and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) are working to find out the culprits, he added.
Read: Case filed over Shahjahanpur double murder
Law enforcers will soon be able to unearth the reason behind the incident, the minister hopes.
Earlier, Zahidul Islam Tipu, former general secretary of AL Motijheel police station committee, and Samia Afrin Priti, a 22-year-old student of Begum Badrunnesa Government College, were killed while his driver was injured when an assailant allegedly opened fire at them in the capital's Shahjahanpur area on Thursday night.
Case filed over Shahjahanpur double murder
A case has been filed against unidentified people over the murder of an Awami League politician and a female college student who were killed in the Shahjahanpur area on Thursday night.
The deceased Zahidul Islam Tipu's wife Farhana Islam Doli filed a murder case with Shajahanpur police on Friday, said Monir Hossain Molla, officer-in-charge of the police station.
Tipu had received death threats over the telephone four or five days ago, according to the statement.
Earlier on Thursday night, Zahidul Islam Tipu, former general secretary of AL Motijheel police station committee, and Samia Afrin Priti, a 22-year-old student of Begum Badrunnesa Government College, were killed while his driver was injured when an assailant allegedly opened fire at them in the capital's Shahjahanpur area.
Read: AL politician among two dead in Dhaka shooting
The crime occurred in front of Islami Bank Hospital around 10.15pm when Zahidul was returning home in his car and Samia on a cycle rickshaw with her friend, police said.
"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 three sustained bullet injuries and were soon rushed to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, where Zahidul and the student died of their injuries hours later.