A Cox’s Bazar court on Thursday placed three people, including Officer-in-Charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das and Inspector Liakat, on a seven-day remand in connection with the killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan in Teknaf.

Md Helal Uddin, judicial magistrate of Cox’s Bazar, passed the order when members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) produced the accused before his court with remand plea.  

Plaintiff’s lawyer Md Mustafa said the court put the three on a seven-day remand while the rest will be interrogated at the jail gate.

All nine accused were produced before the court around 5pm and Judge Md Helal initially ordered to imprison them. Later, the court heard a remand plea by Rab and granted investigators seven days to interrogate the suspects.

Major (retd) Sinha was killed in police firing at Baharchhara police check-post on July 31.

Later, two people were arrested and two cases were filed over the incident, Superintendent of Police ABM Masud Hossain said Saturday.

Sharmin Shahriar Ferdous, elder sister of Sinha, filed the case at Teknaf Senior Judicial Magistrate Court on Wednesday. 

The other accused are Sub-Inspector Nandalal Rakshit, Assistant Sub-Inspector Liton Mia, Tutul, constables Safanur Karim, Kamal Hossain, Abdullah Al Mamun, and Mohammad Mostafa.

Senior Judicial Magistrate Tamanna Farah issued arrest warrants against all of the accused after taking the case into cognizance on Wednesday.

OC Pradeep surrendered on Thursday noon and later police took him to Cox’s Bazar.

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The Home Ministry formed a four-member committee, headed by Mizanur Rahman, additional divisional commissioner (development), on August 2.

The authorities on Sunday suspended 21 police officials, including the in-charge of Baharchhara police outpost, in connection with the killing.

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday assured the mother of Major Sinha of proper investigation into the murder of her son and the trial of his killers.

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Police recovered the hanging body of a physician of Savar Enam Medical College and Hospital from his house at Dariapur in Savar municipality area on Thursday.

The deceased was identified as Samuel Falia, 30, a resident of Dariarpur and son of Badal Falia of Missionpara in Chandpur district.

Quoting local people, officer-in-charge of Savar Model Police Station, AFM Sayed said police recovered the body of Samuel in the morning and sent it to Shaheed Suhrawardi Medical College and Hospital morgue for autopsy.

Family member sof the doctor found him hanging in the morning and informed police.

Police suspected that the doctor might have killed himself  following  family feud.

Police are investigating the incident.

Pradeep Kumar Das, officer-in-charge of Teknaf Model Police Station surrendered on Thursday, hours after a Cox's Bazaar court issued warrants for the arrest of nine policemen, including the OC, in a case filed over the killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan in Teknaf.

Amena Begum, additional commissioner (admin and finance) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police confirmed the information.

Now, the OC is being taken to Cox’s Bazar court from Chattogram, said the CMP official.

He was undergoing treatment at Divisional Police Hospital in Dampara area of Chattogram city.

Earlier in the day, Senior Judicial Magistrate Tamanna Farah issued the arrest warrants against them after taking the case into cognizance on Wednesday.

The other accused in the case are inspector of Baharchhara Police outpost Liakat Ali, sub-inspector Nandolal Rakkhit, sub-inspector Tutul, assistant sub-inspector Liton Mia, and constables Shafanur Karim, Kamal Hossain, Abdullah AL Mamun and Mohammad Mostafa.

Earlier, a case was filed against the nine policemen over the killing of Major (retd) Sinha.

Sharmin Shahriar Ferdous, elder sister of Sinha, filed the case with Teknaf Senior Judicial Magistrate Court on Wednesday, said senior lawyer Mohammad Mostafa.

Senior Judicial Magistrate Tamanna Farah asked the authorities concerned to submit the probe report within seven working days.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) will investigate the case.

Sinha was killed in police firing at Baharchhara police check-post on July 31.

Later, two people were arrested and two cases filed in this regard, Superintendent of Police ABM Masud Hossain said Saturday.

The Ministry of Home Affairs formed a four-member committee, headed by Mizanur Rahman, additional divisional commissioner (development), on August 2.

The authorities on Sunday suspended 21 police officers, including the in-charge of Baharchhara police outpost, in connection with the killing.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday assured the mother of Major Sinha of proper investigation into the murder of her son and the trial of his killers.

The Detective Branch of Police on Wednesday submitted the charge-sheet against JKG Healthcare’s chairman Dr Sabrina Sharmin Hussain and seven others in a case filed over issuing forged Covid-19 certificates.

Liakat Ali, investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge-sheet to the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court.

The other accused in the case are JKG Healthcare’s CEO and Dr Sabrina’s husband Ariful Haque Chowdhury, Arif’s sister Jebunnesa Rima, his accomplices Sayed Chowdhury, Humayun Kabir and his wife Tanzila Patwari and Shafiqul Islam, Biplob Das and Mamunur Rashid. All of the accused were arrested.    

According to the charge-sheet, JKG Healthcare has provided 27,000 coronavirus test reports without following proper test procedures while most of them were found false.

The case was filed against six people, including Ariful Haque Chowdhury, over making false Covid-19 test reports.

On June 23, police arrested six people, including Dr Sabrina’s husband Ariful, Humayun Kabir and his wife Tanjina Patwari, from JKG Healthcare office at the Confidence Tower, Gulshan in connection with the case.

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The Anti-Corruption Commission(ACC) on Wednesday filed two separate cases against Utpal Kumar Dey, Public Works Department additional chief engineer, and his wife Gopa Dey for embezzling around Tk 8 crore and laundering money.

One case has been filed against Utpal while another case and Utpal and his wife Gopa Dey, said ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya.

Earlier, ACC on July 28 decided to sue the couple.

ACC Assistant Director Neyamul Hasan Gazi filed the case.