Law-&-Order
Man killed by friend only for Tk 1000
After recovering the body of a 22-year-old mason on March 13 from Pabna's Soyghoria village, police said on Sunday that he was murdered by his close friend over money-related issues.
After killing Azad Hossain, 22, his friend Abdus Samad alias Somrat, 28, wanted to cover up the murder by dumping the body in a lychee orchard and covering it with dry leaves of the trees, said police.
Masud Alam, additional superintendent of police, said that Azad left the house with his motorcycle at 7:30 pm on March 11 and did not return. His father Abdul Hakim filed a general diary (GD) at Pabna Sadar Police Station on March 12 afternoon.
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On March 13, locals found the body in the lychee orchard next to the farm of Mosharraf Chairman of Soyghoria village of Dapunia Union and informed police.
On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Pabna General Hospital morgue for an autopsy. Later, a case was filed following the complaint of the victim’s father Abdul Hakim.
A joint team of Sadar Police Station and DB conducted a raid and arrested the accused Abdus Samad alias Somrat from his locality on Saturday afternoon.
During interrogation, Somrat confessed to the killing of his friend Azad.
Police said Somrat and Azad were close friends and worked as masons together. A month ago, Somrat took Azad’s motorcycle and got into an accident. Following the accident, Azad had to spend Tk 2000 to repair the motorcycle.
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Somrat gave Tk 1000 out of it. Later, animosity was created between the two friends over the remaining Tk 1,000. Since then, the accused Somrat had been looking for an opportunity to kill his friend Azad.
Around 8 pm on March 11, Somrat called his friend Azad and went to the litchi garden next to the Musharraf chairman's farm. At one stage of the conversation, Somrat stabbed Azad’s neck and eyes with a sharp knife.
After confirming his death, he dragged the body and covered it under the dry leaves of trees.
On Saturday afternoon, Somrat gave a confessional statement before the court.
Later, he was sent to jail.
Death of Abontika: DMP primarily finds partial involvement of classmate Amman, Assistant Proctor Deen Islam
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has primarily found partial involvement of Jagannath University’s (JnU) suspended student Raihan Siddique Amman and relieved Assistant Proctor Deen Islam with the suicide of Fairuz Abontika. Abontika died by suicide on Friday night in her Cumilla residence.
DMP Additional Commissioner Kha Mahid Uddin shared the information at a press conference on Sunday afternoon.
Replying to a question, the additional commissioner said, “Partial involvement of the arrested – Amman and Deen Islam – was found during primary interrogation.”
“The depth of their involvement will be determined by the investigation. We have done whatever was up to us, now the Kotwali Police Station of Cumilla will investigate,” he said, adding that they have handed over the duo to Kotwali Police Station.
The DMP additional commissioner informed that Abontika’s mother Tahmina Shabnam filed a case with Cumilla’s Kotwali Police Station last night. Two people were charged with abetment to suicide in the case.
Fairuz Abontika, a student of the 2017-18 academic year of JnU’s Law Department, hanged herself at her Cumilla residence after accusing her classmate and the assistant proctor of the university in a Facebook post around 10 pm on Friday.
In the Facebook post before committing suicide, Abontika said that her classmate Raihan Amman and assistant proctor Deen Islam were responsible for her suicide.
“If I ever die by suicide, my classmate Amman Siddiqui and assistant proctor Deen Islam, who supported him, will be solely responsible for my death. I complained to the Proctor’s office that Amman was threatening me offline and also online, but I did not get any justice. Deen Islam intimidated me in many ways on behalf of Amman. He said that expelling me is very easy for him. I know I won’t get any justice here,” she wrote.
A massive protest erupted on the JnU campus following the news of suicide on Friday night.
In the face of protest, the university authorities immediately relieved the assistant proctor and suspended the student.
Besides, the university administration formed a four-member probe committee with Masum Billah, dean of the Faculty of Law, as the convener and Law Officer Ranjan Kumar Das as the member secretary.
On Saturday, the protesting students announced to besiege the Vice Chancellor’s office on Monday to press home their six-point demand.
Accused JnU teacher, student arrested over Abantika's suicide
Police have arrested Jagannath University Assistant Proctor Deen Islam and student Amman Siddique over the death of Fairuz Abantika who committed suicide on Friday night.
DMP Commissioner Habibur Rahman confirmed this information to the media on Saturday night.
They were taken into police custody. Later, they will be handed over to the Comilla police, he added.
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Earlier, a case was filed at Cumilla Kotwali Model Police Station tonight following a complaint lodged by Abantika's mother Tahmina Shabnam, said Firoz Hossain, officer-in-charge of the police station.
According to the case statement, Amman Siddique harassed Abantika sexually on online and offline platforms while JnU Assistant Procter Deen Islam abused her verbally.
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Meanwhile, protests were held at Jagannath University and in Cumilla district on Saturday demanding justice for Abantika.
2 inc. NOVOAIR driver arrested with 40 gold bars worth Tk 5 crore at Dhaka airport
Members of the Armed Police Battalion (APBn) and National Security Intelligence (NSI) arrested two people including a driver of private airlines ‘NOVOAIR’ with 40 gold bars worth Tk 5 crore at Dhaka airport on Saturday afternoon.
The arrestees were identified as driver Md Helal, 51, and his cohort Kamal Hossain, 29.
Mohammad Ziaul Haque, additional superintendent at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA)
APBn, disclosed this information to media in the afternoon.
As a move to check gold smuggling, the intelligence of the APBn and NSI had been keeping an eye on driver Helal for a long time due to his alleged involvement with the smuggling, he said.
Being tipped-off, the members of the APBn challenged the driver and his cohort on board a CNG-run autorickshaw on their way to a destination in front of the Bangabandhu mural of the HSIA, the APBn officer said.
Later, the duo was brought to the APBn office for interrogation and subsequently the gold bars wrapped with tape weighing around 4.640 kilograms were recovered from a search of their bodies, he said.
A legal process was underway to file a case in this connection, the ABPn officer added.
Father, sons get life term for killing neighbour over land dispute in Sylhet
A Sylhet court on Thursday sentenced a man and his two sons to life term in jail in a case filed for killing a neighbour over land dispute in Sylhet’s Bishwanathpur upazila around six years back.
Sylhet Additional District and Sessions Judge’s Fourth Court Judge Shaila Sharmin also fined the convicts Tk 20, 000 each, said the court’s bench assistant Kabir Hossain.
The convicts are Ashique Miah, 60, his sons Md Emran Miah, 22, and Kamran Miah, 18, hailing from Tilokpur village under Khajanchhi union of the upazila.
Of the convicts, only father Ashique Miah was on the dock during the delivery of the judgment.
According to the case statement, there had long been a dispute between the accused Ashique and neighbour Abdur Rauf over the ownership of a waterbody in the village.
On February 19, 2018, Ashique and others equipped with locally made sharp weapons attacked Rauf when he installed a pump in the waterbody for irrigation, leaving him critically injured.
On February 21, the victim succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital.
Later, the victim’s brother Abdul Quddus filed a murder case with the Bishwanath police station in this connection.
After completing legal procedures, the court handed down the judgment in the presence of one of the three accused on Thursday.
CID arrests alleged mastermind of fraudster gang in city
Cyber Police Centre (CPC) of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested the mastermind of a fraudster gang from the city's Mirpur area early Thursday on charge of embezzling about Tk 2.31 crore by alluring a man to get a dollar-laden luggage.
Based on secret information, a team of the Cyber Police Centre carried out a raid at Paikpara area of Mirpur early Thursday and arrested alleged mastermind of fraudster Sohail Ahmed Apu,28.
The son of Abdul Mannan, Apu has been residing at house no. 31/24/A, Topten Hawk plaza of Pikepara in Mirpur.
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Sources at the Cyber Police Centre of the CID, a specialised police unit, said one Reza (40) was introduced to a member of the fraudster gang through Facebook. At one stage, a member of the fraudulent syndicate introduced himself as an official of Florida City Bank and said that a client of the Bank had a deposit of 6 million dollars. The client died in Haiti on 12 January in 2010 and he has no heirs.
The fraudster then allured Suman Al Reza to become the bank client's heir and offered to share the deposited money equally between the two after withdrawing the money. Later, the fraudster demanded Tk9,70,000 from Reza for shipping charges of dollar sending through a courier service. After paying that amount, the fraudster also demanded $55,000 (Tk. 61,65,000) as federal taxes. Allured for dollar-laden luggage, Sumon Al Reza then deposited the amount as Bangladesh Federal Tax to the Dutch Bangla Bank Mirpur-10 branch, Dhaka, account of Golden Logistics Enterprise.
As Suman Al Reza did not receive the parcel as per the conditions, he realised that he was a victim of fraud and he filed a case with Uttara West Police Case 17 December last year in this connection.
After getting charge of the investigation of the case, a team of Cyber Police Centre conducted an operation on the basis of the information collected from the bank account and arrested Md Akash (23)from Chanpara Rehabilitation Centre Slum No. 8 of Rupganj police station in Narayanganj District on January 25 this year.
6 policemen suspended over looting Tk 3.5cr from freelancer
According to the statement of Akash, another member of the fraud gang identified as Ibrahim (30), was arrested on the same day from Kalyanpur Porabasti in Dhaka city.
When the arrested accused were sent to jail, Apu's name emerged as the mastermind of the cheating ring as per their confession. In view of this, he was arrested early Thursday.
According to the preliminary investigation, the gang has embezzled about Tk 2,30,18,326 from various victims using various bank accounts.
6 policemen suspended over looting Tk 3.5cr from freelancer
Six members of Detective Branch (DB) (North-South) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) were suspended in connection with looting Tk 3.5 crore from a freelancer on February 26.
The six cops are SI Md Alamgir Hossain, ASI Babul Mia, Md Shah Paran Jannat, Moinul Hossen, Jahidur Rahman and Abdur Rahman.
The suspension order was given based on the findings of a probe committee which was formed to investigate the incident, said CMP's Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC-PR) Spina Rani Pramanik.
A departmental case will be filed against them in this connection, she added.
Besides, the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has already started investigating the two cases filed in this incident on the orders of the court.
Earlier, a team of CMP's DB North-South Zone led by Ruhul Amin detained Abu Bakkar from Gulbagh residential area under Bayzeed police station on February 26 night and seized his mobile phone set.
The DB men threatened to implicate Bakkar in a false cybercrime and money laundering case. Later that night, the DB police took him to the DB office in the city's Mansurabad Police Lines.
In custody, the cops forcibly unlocked Bakkar's phone with his fingerprint, logged into his Binance account and transferred around $2,72,000 (Tk 3 crore approximately) to another account. They also transferred Tk 10 lakh from his Bangladeshi bank account via mobile banking.
CMP formed a three-member committee headed by Counter Terrorism Division's ADC Asif Mohiuddin on March 2 to investigate the matter.
Later the probe committee submitted the report on Tuesday.
New Market police arrest suspect for murder in Dhaka
New Market thana police of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) have arrested a suspect involving a murder in the capital.
Based on secret information, a team of New Market Police Station conducted a raid at Eskaton Road of Moghbazar area on Tuesday afternoon and arrested Md Hossain.
On Sunday (March 10), a team of New Market Police station recovered the body of an unidentified man from the footpath opposite to Rahman & Co. Filling Station on the New Elephant Road. Later the deceased was identified as Mamun alias Kata Mamun alias 'Blade' Mamun.
For the past three years, Mamun has been living as a homeless person in the Elephant Road area. Despite many searches in the surrounding area, no relatives were found.
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A case was filed with New Market police station on the same day accusing unidentified people.
But Mamun was arrested by conducting a special operation in the Eskaton area of Moghbazar on Tuesday afternoon.
Officer-in-charge (OC) of Newmarket police station Md. Aminul Islam said Sub-Inspector (SI) Pavel Ahmed has been given the task of investigating the case.
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After getting the investigation task, the investigation officer of the case SI Pavel collected the CCTV footage of the petrol pump from the opposite side of the site from where the body was found.
He reviewed the footage that shows that at around 5:19 am on the day of the incident, a person walked from Bata crossing towards Kataban crossing and hit the victim Mamun multiple times with a heavy object before fleeing Bata crossing area towards Hatirpul by a rickshaw.
Based on the information from the CCTV footage and secret information, a special drive was carried out in the Eskaton road area on Tuesday afternoon and arrested the alleged killer.
HC issues rule on arrest of hotel, restaurant workers during raids
The High Court (HC) on Wednesday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain why the arrests of workers during raids on hotels and restaurants in the capital following the Bailey Road fire, should not be declared illegal.
The HC asked the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to provide within the next 30 days a list of the total number of workers arrested during raids.
The HC bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice Md Atabullah passed the order following a writ petition.
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Secretaries to home, labour, employment and law ministries, and inspector general of police have been asked to respond to the rule within four weeks.
Barrister Masud R Sobhan stood for the writ petitioner while Deputy Attorney General Tushar Kanti Roy represented the state.
Earlier Monday, Barrister Masud R Sobhan and his wife Barrister Fatema S Chowdhury filed the writ petition.
Barrister Fatema S Chowdhury said according to media reports, law enforcers have arrested at least 800 workers.
“However, these workers do not own any building or restaurant. They are just employees. They used to get a salary of TK 10,000 to TK15,000 per month. They are innocent. They were illegally detained and kept with the inmates in the jail. That's why I filed a writ challenging the legality of their arrest,” she said.
On February 29, 46 people were killed in a devastating fire at Green Cozy Cottage building on Bailey Road in the capital. Since then, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has been conducting drives in various restaurants.
A total of 872 people have been arrested and 20 cases filed so far during these drives. Disciplinary action was taken in 887 cases.
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The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) is also conducting drives and closed some restaurants. Police are also allegedly detaining many people from small roadside food shops.
The Restaurant Owners' Association has criticised the raids conducted by government agencies on various restaurants in Dhaka, claiming it 'harassing'.
Earlier on Tuesday, the same bench of the High Court issued a rule in response to a writ petition filed by the Bangladesh Restaurant Owners’ Association. The High Court issued a rule asking why harassing hotels and restaurants in the name of raids in the capital is not illegal.
Death while rescuing bird: HC issues rule on payment of compensation to rescuer Atif
The High Court on Wednesday barred animal rescue organisations from carrying out rescue operations without training.
The court also issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain as to why Atif Islam, a volunteer of ‘Robin Hood – The Animal Rescue Society’ who died after being electrocuted while rescuing a bird, should not be given adequate compensation.
The HC bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice Md Atabullah passed the order after hearing a writ petition filed by Atif’s mother Tanjina Rahman Tumpa.
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Advocate ABM Shahjahan Akand Masum stood for the writ petitioner while Assistant Attorney General Selim Azad represented the state.
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Tashfian Atif, a member of ‘Robin Hood- the Animal Rescue Society’ who was electrocuted while rescuing a parrot stuck in an electric wire at Hasnabad Insaf Bazar in Dhaka's South Keraniganj on December 21 last year, died on December 22 while undergoing treatment.
Atif was first taken to Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery. From there, he was admitted to the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College where he died..
After the incident, Afzal Khan, head of Robin Hood- the Animal Rescue Society, told the media that they work to rescue animals if they fall in danger.
They got information on mobile phone that a parrot was trapped on an electric pole in Hasnabad area on December 21.
Then a team of 5-6 people went to the spot to rescue the bird and rescuers climbed onto the roof of a three-storey building, he said.
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Atif went to rescue the bird with a stick in his hand and when he hit an electric cable with the stick he and two others got electrocuted.
Atif's father Nazmul Hossain said Atif was a second-year student of Dhanmondi Ideal College and he was involved in the work for his love for animals. Then Atif’s mother filed a writ petition with the High Court.