Magura
Dream comes true: Differently abled student gets house in Magura
Babu Mia, a 21-year old physically challenged youth, is a second-year student of the honors course at the History Department in Magura Adrasha College.
The speech impaired with a maimed leg lost his father in a road accident when he was only two-year-old. After the death of his father, his mother with two young kids moved from Jhenaidah to his maternal grandparents’ house in Magura.
But the grandparents and uncles were also financially insolvent which forced his mother to join a garment factory in Narayanganj for their livelihood at one stage. His younger brother Emon started working as a day labourer at Narinda in Dhaka.
Babu had to stay with his grandmother after his mother and brother shifted from Magura. But what an irony of fate! Like his father, his grandmother also died in a road accident last year keeping Babu completely alone.
He became a burden for his uncles. Their families were unwilling to take care of him. His dream to continue his study became pale.
Finding no other way, he collected the phone number of the Prime Minister on his own and sent an SMS telling about his misery.
UP member held for ‘raping’ schoolgirl in Magura
Police arrested a member of Babukhali union parishad of Mohammadpur upazila in Magura district for allegedly raping a schoolgirl on Monday.
The arrestee was Ismail Mridha, son of late Awal Mridha and a member of Ward No 6 of Babukhali union parishad.
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Victim’s mother said Ismail visited her house a few days ago and told her that he will provide her daughter an allowance card and medical certificate is needed for it.
On Sunday morning, Ismail took the girl Magura hospital in the name of medical examination but no medical test was held there.
Later, he took the girl to a house near the education office on Haji Saheb road area where he violated her.
When the girl shouted, Ismail Mridha left her in the house and fled.
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Later, the girl’s mother lodged a written complaint with Magura police in this regard, said Nasir Uddin, officer-in-charge of the Magura police station.
Based on the complaint, police arrested UP member Ismail Mridha on Monday and produced him before a court, he added.
One held over murder of schoolgirl ‘after rape’ in Magura
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested a man from Sreepur upazila of Magura district over the murder of a schoolgirl ‘after rape’.
The arrestee is Hasan Sheikh, 23, a three-wheeler driver and son of Fazlu Sheikh of Hatshrikol village of the upazila.
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Sreepur Police Station Officer-in-Charge Sukdev Roy in a press conference said the arrestee confessed that he had raped the girl before murder and it was preplanned.
Razia Khatun, 12, was found dead on the banks of the Kumar River near her residence in Hatsrikol village of Sreepur upazila on Friday.
A case was filed at Sreepur police station in this regard.
12-year-old girl found dead in Magura
A 12-year-old girl was found dead on the banks of the Kumar River near her residence in Hatsrikol village of Sreepur upazila on Friday.
The deceased was identified as Razia Khatun, daughter of Mikhiz Sheikh of the village and a Class VI student of Hatsrikol Secondary School.
Police suspect the girl had been murdered over an alleged love affair as she was found with her throat slit.
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Asmat Ali Sheikh, grandfather of the deceased, said that Razia went missing around 3 pm on Thursday. "Her body was found on the banks of the river around 11 am on Friday."
Officer-in-charge of Sreepur Police Station Sukdev said that the girl had been brutally murdered. "Efforts are on to nab the killer."
A case has been lodged at the Sreepur police station in this regard. "The body has been sent to the Magura hospital morgue for an autopsy," the OC added.
Stolen Jashore baby found in Magura
A baby stolen from a Jashore hospital has been returned to his parents after being recovered from a bus stand in Magura on Monday, police said.
The baby, aged eight days, was stolen from Jashore Children's Hospital on Sunday.
"We recovered the baby from the Shimakhali bus stand area in Magura around 12pm after being alerted by a woman commuter," said Bisharul Islam, officer-in-charge of Shalikha police station in Magura.
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“A woman got on a Shotokhali village-bound bus from Jashore with the baby. As the bus stopped at the Shimakhali bus stand, she requested another female commuter to take care of the baby while the former got off on the pretext of getting some water for him,” said the OC.
When the woman did not return, the commuter informed the cops.
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“The baby was later handed over to the Jashore police and eventually returned to his parents, Mahdi Hasan and Asma Khatun, residents of the Kaliganj municipal area in Jhenaidah district," said OC Bisharul.
However, no one has been arrested in connection with the crime, said OC Bisharul.
On February 27, Asma gave birth to the baby boy at Jashore Children's Hospital and he was stolen a week later from the medical facility allegedly by a woman.
Miscreants fell 52 mango trees of a Madrasha in Magura
Miscreants have chopped 52 mango trees at the premises of Baliadanga Hafezia and Orphanage Madrasha at Baliadanga village in Sadar upazila of the district, the head of the institution said on Tuesday.
Firoz Ahmed, super of Baliadanga Hafezia and Madrasha, said he noticed the trees, some of them in flowers, felled to the ground as he, along with Madrasha students, came out of a mosque after saying fazr prayer.
The miscreants felled the trees sometime after midnight under the cover of darkness when staff and students of the madrasha were asleep, he said.
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He demanded exemplary punishment of those involved in the tree felling.
Manjurul Alam, officer-in-charge of Sadar police station, said “We have got a written complaint about tree felling and legal steps will be taken after investigation.”
32-yr-old man found dead in Magura shop
A 32-year-old man, the son of a former police officer, has been found dead in a shop in Magura’s Sreepur upazila, cops said on Saturday.
The deceased was identified as Murad Hossain, son of Siddiqur Rahman of Vitasair village in Magura Sadar upazila. He worked at the same shop in Sabdalpur Bazar, where he died on Friday evening.
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His father alleged that Murad was killed, while shop owner Malek Khan’s son Matiar Khan claimed that he died of an illness.
Sreepur police station officer-in-charge Shukdev Roy said the body was sent to the morgue of Magura Sadar Hospital for an autopsy. "A case has been registered at the police station in this regard."
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1 killed, 40 injured as bus falls into ditch in Magura
A speeding bus plunged into a roadside ditch in Magura on Sunday, killing a bicyclist and injuring 40 of its passengers, police said.
Yakub Ali, 55, of Rahimpur village of Magura sadar upazila, was on bicycle when the bus lost control and hit him before falling into the ditch along Magura-Jashore highway. He died instantly, said Tarak Nath Biswas, officer-in-charge (OC) of Shalikha Police Station.
The injured were sent to a nearby hospital.
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Morkaram Hossain, sub-inspector (SI) of Sadar's Ichali Police Camp, said the bus driver and helper escaped soon after the accident. However, the bus was seized.
Steps are underway to take legal action in this regard, the SI added.
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Man killed in AL infighting in Magura
A 50-year-old man was killed and 10 others injured in a clash between two factions of Awami League at Sablat village in Shalikha upazila of Magura district over establishing supremacy on Saturday.
The deceased was identified as Shariful Islam, son of Ibrahim Hossain of the village.
Siraj Uddin Mandal, AL Talkhori union unit president and newly elected chairman of Talkhori union parishad, and the defeated chairman candidate Advocate Shamsur Rahman had been at loggerheads over establishing supremacy.
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On Saturday, the supporters of both groups locked into an altercation and at one stage, they attacked each other, leaving eleven people injured.
The injured were taken to Jashore Sadar Hospital where doctors declared Shariful dead.
A case was filed in this connection.
2 killed in Magura road crash
Two people were killed and 25 others injured when a speeding bus overturned in Chaulia area of Magura Sadar upazila on Tuesday morning.
The deceased were identified as Nabir Molla, 65, and Babu Biswas, 62, of Chandpur village of the upazila.
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Police said the accident occurred around 11 am when the overcrowded bus from Mohammadpur Upazila overturned after its driver lost control over steering, leaving at least 30 passengers injured.
Later, the fire service members rescued the injured and sent them to Magura Sadar Hospital where doctors declared Nabir and Babu dead.
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Manjurul Alam, Officer-in-Charge of Magura Police Station, said the bodies were kept at the hospital morgue for autopsy.
A case was filed in this regard.