Murder case
Arrests made in Rubel murder case
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) conducted simultaneous drives in the city's Mohammadpur area and Sreepur in Gazipur district on Sunday and arrested two alleged accused in Rubel murder case of Darussalam Police Station on Sunday.
The arrestees were identified as Abdul Jalil and Abdul Mannan.
Based on secret information, a Mirpur Zonal team of DB (Mirpur Division) conducted the simultaneous drives on Sunday and arrested them from Sreepur police station area of Gazipur district and Mohammadpur police station area of the capital.
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Briefing reporters at the DMP media center on Sunday, Joint Commissioner(Cyber and Special Crimes and DB-North) Mohammad Harun-ur-Rashid said the victim Rubel Mia went missing from Lalmonirhat Sadar area at around 10 am on January 5. Later the decomposed body of the victim was recovered from Room No. 817 on the 5th floor of a 10-storey under construction building of Government Bangla College under Darussalam Police Station on January 13 at around 6 pm.
The victim's uncle filed a murder case with the Darussalam police station on January 14. Detective Mirpur zonal team started investigating the case, he said.
He also said that during the investigation of the case, Abdul Jalil and Abdul Mannan were arrested with the help of information technology.
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During primary interrogation, arrested Abdul Jalil revealed that they had caught the victim Rubel from the under construction building on suspicion of being a thief on January 9 at around 4:00 pm. The two arrestees tied the victim's hand with a rope and strangled him with the same rope to recover the stolen mobile phone and money. As a result, when the victim died, the detainees turned off their mobile phones and fled, the Joint Commissioner (DB-North) said quoting the two arrestees.
Fugitive ‘serial killer’ held in Kishoreganj
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested a ‘serial killer’, who remained fugitive in the guise of a folk singer for seven years, from Kishoreganj district.
The arrestee is Md Helal Hossain alias Baul Selim, alias Selim Fakir, alias Khuni Helal, 45, of Bogura district.
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According to a media release from Rab Headquarters, a team of Rab-3 arrested him conducting a drive at Bhairab Railway Station area in Kishoreganj on Wednesday night.
During interrogation, Selim Fakir, a Baul model of song ‘Bhanga Tori Chhera Pal’, said he was accused in several murder cases and was sentenced to life term jail in a murder case in Bogura.
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He used to stay at different railway stations and shrines to escape jail sentence for the last seven years. He used to make a living by singing folk songs at different railway stations, said the release.
Legal process is underway against the accused, the release added.
SC suspends execution of death row convict until release of full judgment
The Supreme Court on Sunday postponed the execution of a death row convict Shukur Ali in a child rape and murder case in Kushtia until the release of the full text of the judgment.
The Appellate Division asked Attorney General AM Amin Uddin to inform IG(Prison) and the jail authorities of the order.
The five-member bench led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order after convict’s lawyer Helal Uddin Molla informed it of the preparation to execute Shukur following an ‘advance order’ of the court.
Helal Uddin prayed for court’s intervention as Shukur couldn’t appeal for review of the verdict as the full text of the order was not released as yet.
The apex court said the advance order was issued to transfer other three convicts from condemn cells whose punishment was reduced to life term imprisonment from death penalty.
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Meanwhile Helal Uddin said the advance order was already sent to Kashimpur Jail from Kushtia court and the preparations were made to execute the convict. As part of the process the convict sent clemency appeal to the President which got rejected, he said.
The Appellate Division on August 18 this year upheld the death penalty of Shukur Ali, and commuted death sentences of three others to life imprisonment in a case filed over abduction, rape and murder of 13-year-old girl in Kushtia in 2004.
The court later asked Shukur Ali’s lawyer Helal Uddin to submit a appeal to Chamber Judge for necessary direction in this regard and ordered to suspend the execution till November 16.
Chamber Judge Obaydul Hasan passed the order and directed IG (Prisons) and jail authority for enactment.
The court also asked Shukur’s lawyer to submit petition following the procedures for reviewing the judgment.
The other three accused sentenced life imprisonment in the case are Nuruddin Sentu, Azanur Rahman and Mamun Hossain.
On March 25, 2004, the victim was abducted by the accused while returning from a neighbour’s house after watching television at Lalnagar village under Kushtia's Daulatpur Upazila.
They took her to a tobacco field, raped and killed her.
The following day, her father filed a case against five people with the Daulatpur Police Station in connection with the incident.
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On February 4, 2009, The Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal of Kushtia sentenced five accused, Shukur, Sentu, Azanur, Mamun and Kamrul to death in the case.
Later the convicts filed separate appeals with the HC, challenging the verdict while the death reference was sent to the court for approval.
In the meantime convict Kamrul died in jail.
In 2014, The HC upheld their punishment.
Later the convicts filed appeals with the Appellate Division challenging the HC verdict.
Munia's death: Bashundhara MD among 8 sued over ‘rape, murder’
A rape and murder case was filed on Monday against Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir and seven others over the death of college student Mosarat Jahan Munia in her Gulshan apartment in April this year.
The seven other accused are: Bashundhara Group's Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan Shah Alam, Shah Alam's wife Afroza Begum; Anvir's wife Sabrina Sayem; Faria Mahbub Piyasha; Saifa Rahman Mim; landlord of the flat where the victim was staying, Ibrahim Ahmed Ripon and his wife Sharmim Akhter.
Munia's sister Nusrat Jahan Tania filed the case with Dhaka's 8th Tribunal for Prevention of Women and Children's Repression.
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Judge Mafroza Parvin recorded the statement of the complainant. After the hearing, the judge directed the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to submit a report on it within seven working days.
Earlier on August 19, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury relieved Anvir of the charge of incitement to suicide of the college student.
On July 19, the investigating officer of the case, Gulshan Police Station officer-in-charge Abul Hasan, submitted a final report to the court giving a clean chit to Anvir.
Anvir was not found culpable in the suicide incitement case of Munia in the final report submitted by the investigating officer and asked for his name to be dropped.
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On April 26, police recovered the hanging body of Munia from the flat in Gulshan in the night. Munia's elder sister Nusrat Jahan Tania filed a case against Anvir that night accusing him of incitement to suicide.
According to Tania, her sister Munia was in a relationship with Anvir who regularly visited her at the Gulshan apartment.
Biswajit Das murder case: Fugitive convict held in Faridpur
Police on Tuesday night arrested a fugitive criminal who had been on the run since his conviction in the 2012 Biswajit Das murder case.
Imran Hossain Imran, who was sentenced to life in jail in the case in 2013, was nabbed from a house in Char Bishanpur village of Faridpur's Sadarpur upazila, police said.
Acting on a tip-off, a team conducted a raid in the area and arrested Imran around 10.30 pm, said Subrata Goldar, officer-in-charge of the Sadarpur police station.
Imran will be produced in the court on Wednesday, the OC said.
On December 9, 2012, tailoring shop employee Biswajit was chopped to death by some BCL activists near Bahadur Shah Park in Old Dhaka during the BNP-led alliance's countrywide road blockade programme.
On December 18, 2013, a tribunal sentenced eight BCL activists to death and 13 others, including Imran, to life imprisonment in the Biswajit killing case.
On August 6, 2017, the High Court upheld the death sentences of Rafiqul Islam Shakil and Rajon Talukder and commuted the capital punishment of four other convicts — Mahfuzur Rahman Nahid, Emdadul Haque Emdad, GM Rasheduzzaman Shawon and Mir Nurul Alam Liman — to life term.
'Rape attempt' on Pori Moni: Nasir, Omi get bail
A Dhaka court on Tuesday granted bail to former Uttara Club president Nasir U Mahmud and his associate Tuhin Siddiqui Omi in an attempted rape and murder case filed by actress Pori Moni.
Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Shahzadi Tahmida passed the order when police produced them before the court on completion of their five-day remand.
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Earlier, on June 23, a Dhaka court placed Nasir and Omi on a five-day remand each in the case.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Rajib Hasan passed the order after investigation officer of the case Md Kamal Hossain produced them before the court with a plea of 10-day remand.
Dhallywood star Pori Moni on June 14 filed a sexual assault complaint against six people, including Nasir with Savar Model Police Station.
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Later in the day, Nasir U Mahmud and four others were arrested from Uttara by a detective team.
Earlier, Pori Moni in her verified Facebook page, uploaded a status seeking justice from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, claiming that the six people attempted to rape and kill her.
Child rape and murder case accused arrested in Rangpur
Police have arrested a fugitive wanted as the prime accused in a case of killing a 10-year-old school student after he failed to rape her at Mithapakur Upazila of the district.
The arrested was identified as Raja Miah, 25, son of Shamim Miah of Village Buzruk Santoshpur in Mithapukur Upazila. He had been living with his grandmother Halima Begum.
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Assistant police super (D circle) Md. Kamruzzaman of the Rangpur district police confirmed the arrest adding that the accused had been produced to the court on Friday and the court sent him to jail.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of police raided Talmar More area of Nagarkanda in Faridpur district and arrested Raju Miah from his hide out on Thursday.
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According to the case statement, Raju lured his neighbour Class III student Rahima, with buying biscuit and took her in his house where he allegedly tried to rape her on May 26. As she screamed, he strangled the child and then slit her throat with a blade to confirm her death. Later, he buried the body inside a room and fled the scene.
Police on information recovered the body and sent it to the Rangpur Medical College Hospital morgue for post mortem examination.
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Police arrested his grandmother Halima Begum in this regard.
Later, the child’s father filed a murder case accusing Raju Miah and his grandmother Halima Begum with the crime at Mithapukur police station.
Babul Akter sent to Feni jail
Chattogram's former police superintendent Babul Akter, who is under arrest in a case filed over his wife Mitu’s murder, has been sent to Feni district jail Saturday.
Chattogram jail authorities have confirmed the handover to UNB.
Jailer Dewan Tariqul Islam said following an order from the higher authority Babul Akter was handed over to Feni jail.
“There is no significant reason for his transfer, it’s just where authorities want him to stay," he said.
On May 17, after a 5-day remand Babul was produced before the court for giving a confessional statement under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
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Later he changed his mind and the court sent him to jail.
Since, Babul Akter was staying in Chattogram jail.
On May 12, PBI detained Babul Akter following an investigation that gave them clear reasons to believe he was involved in his wife's murder.
In the case statement, his father in law Mosharraf claimed that Babul had his wife killed over extra marital relationship.
The other accused in the case are—Musa, Kalu, Ehteshamul Bhola, Munir, Saidul Islam Shikdar alias Sakku, Shahjahan, Anwar and Wasim.
On June 5, 2016, unidentified assailants gunned down Babul's wife Mitu at the port city's GEC intersection while she was going to drop her son Mahir Akhter, 7, for his schoolbus.
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Former MP Awal taken to jail
Former MP MA Awal was taken to Keraniganj central jail on Wednesday evening in connection with the sensational Shahinuddin murder case in Pallabi.
Jailer Mahbubur Islam confirmed that he was taken to the jail at 7:30 pm and will be kept in a 14-day quarantine there.
MA Awal is a former member of parliament from the Lakshmipur-1 constituency.
On Thursday he was arrested by RAB along with others accused in this case.
RAB claimed the former MP to be the mastermind behind the murder.
On May 16, Shahinuddin was called up on his mobile phone and asked to go to Mirpur Section-12 on the pretext of resolving a land dispute.
When the victim reached the area around 4pm that day, the assailants attacked him before hacking him to death with sharp weapons in front of his seven-year-old son.
A murder case was filed at Pallabi Police Station on May 17 against several people, including former MP MA Awal.
Ex-MP among 3 held in Sahinuddin murder case
Three more persons, including a former MP, have been arrested in connection with the sensational Sahinuddin murder case, police said on Thursday.
Sleuths of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) raided a number of places in the capital and Bhairab upazila of Kishorgonj district and nabbed the trio in the early hours of the day.
The accused have been identified as Md Sumon Bepari (33), Md Rocky Talukder (25), and MA Awal, former MP of Laxmipur-1 constituency.
Sources at the RAB headquarters said that sleuths of the elite force conducted raids in Bhairab upazila late on Wednesday night, following a tip-off, and arrested the former MP in the early hours of Thursday. He is the prime accused in the case.
Similarly, the zonal team of DB (Mirpur) conducted raids at several places in the capital’s Pallabi and Rayerbagh areas and arrested Sumon and Rocky around the same time.
DMP’s Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC-Media) Iftakhairul Islam said that Sumon had plotted the murder and led the team of assailants. "His quick interrogation led to the immediate arrest of Rocky in the Kalapani area of Pallabi," he said.
Two other accused in the case -- Murad and Dipu -- were arrested earlier. While the Pallabi police nabbed Murad soon after the crime on May 16, Dipu was held a day after.
On May 16, the accused called up Sahinuddin on his mobile phone and asked him to come to Mirpur Section-12 on the pretext of resolving a land dispute.
When the victim reached the area around 4pm that day, the assailants attacked him before hacking him to death with sharp weapons in front of his seven-year-old son.
A murder case was filed at Pallabi Police Station on May 17 against several people, including MA Awal, Sumon and Rocky.