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HC wants to know the number of Rohingya voters in Cox’s Bazar
The High Court on Wednesday wanted to know the number of Rohingya voters in Cox’s Bazar district and submit a report after investigation on it by June 6.
The HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Kazi Zinat Hoque passed the order after hearing a writ petition.
The HC also asked the authorities concerned to remove 38 Rohingyas under Eidgaon union from the voter list.
It issued a rule asking the government to explain as to why the Rohingya voters should not be declared illegal.
Advocate Siddique Ullah Mia stood for the writ petitioner while deputy attorney general Amit Das Gupta represented the state.
HC directs judicial inquiry to identify those responsible for topsoil depletion in Satkania
Mohammad Hamid, a resident of Eidgaon union of Cox’s Bazar district filed the writ petition challenging the declaration of the schedule of Eidgaon Union Parishad election.
The writ petition also sought to remove the names of Rohingya voters from voter list after scrutiny and cancellation of all documents related to providing citizenship to the Rohingya voters and necessary steps against those involved in providing citizenship to the 38 Rohingyas.
Secretary to the Local Government, Secretary to the Election Commission, Cox’s Bazar deputy commissioner and superintendent of Cox’s Bazar police have been made respondents.
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Advocate Siddique, said 38 Rohingyas took National ID cards and inserted them in the voter list of Eidgaon union of Sadar upazila. Besides, allegations were also found that some 350 Rohingyas were also made voters under the union.
The writ also sought a stay order on the election of the Union Parishad.
HC directs judicial inquiry to identify those responsible for topsoil depletion in Satkania
The High Court (HC) directed to form a judiciary body to find out the accused involved with cutting off topsoil from croplands for selling it to brick kilns in Satkania upazila of Chattogram Tuesday.
The HC bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Md Atabullah also ordered Chattogram Chief Judicial Magistrate to submit a report within one month in this regard.
The court passed the order on Tuesday when Chattogram Deputy Commissioner, Superintendent of Police, Satkania Upazila Nirbahi Officer and Satkania police station’s Officer-in-Charge virtually joined the HC to explain as to why the cutting off topsoil from croplands in the upazila was going on despite an HC restriction issued earlier.
The HC also ordered the authorities concerned to fill up the lands, whose topsoil was dug for brick kilns, with alluvial soil by collecting from outside and make those as cultivable.
Deputy Attorney General Tushar Kanti Roy, Assistant Attorney Generals Selim Azad and Anis Ul-Mawa represented the state during the court procedure.
Earlier on Monday, the HC summoned the four government officers including DC and SP virtually to explain on Tuesday why the restriction order over cutting off the topsoil from the croplands was ignored.
As per the order, the officers joined virtually to submit their statements in this regard.
On March 19 this year, the HC imposed a restriction on cutting off the topsoil after one local named Abdul Munaf submitted a petition following media outlets reporting on this point.
Despite the restriction, the topsoil cutting continues unabated in the upazila in collaboration with syndicates.
However, on Sunday (April 21) a mobile court sentenced two people to jail for cutting off the topsoil in Pathanipul area under Kaliyash union of the upazila.
Faridpur temple fire: Villagers clash with police demanding arrest of accused in construction workers' lynching
Thousands of villagers on Tuesday clashed with law enforcers as the public demanded the arrests of the accused involved in the brutal deaths of two construction workers in a mob beating following a fire at a temple in Madhukhali upazila of Faridpur last Thursday (April 18, 2024) night.
Some members of the law enforcing agencies and villagers were injured in the clash that lasted for around three hours on Dhaka-Khulna highway but the exact number of the injured could not be ascertained.
One of the injured was sent to Bangabandhu Sheik Mujib Medical College Hospital in the district due to critical condition, confirmed Madhukhali police station’s Officer-in-Charge Miraj Hossain.
Witnesses said thousands of villagers formed a human demanding arrest of the accused on Dhaka-Khulna highway in Madhukhali Sadar in the morning and later brought out a protest procession which started heading towards Dumain Panchapalli where the lynching occurred last Thursday.
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Being barred from the law enforcers, the villagers became angry over the matter and started hurling brickbats targeting the enforcers, resulting in a chase and counter-chase for the three hours.
Due to the clash, hundreds of vehicles got stuck on both sides of the road, causing immense suffering amid the scorching heat.
Deputy Commissioner Md Qamrul Ahsan Talukder said he tried to assuage the agitated villagers but they didn’t pay heed to it.
“On behalf of the administration, we will consider the demand for which you are agitating with utmost importance. But the protesters did not respond to the administration's call and continued their programme,” he said.
Additional superintendent of police Md Imdad Hossain said following the Panchapalli incident, protesters tried to block the road from Madhukhali Sadar to Kamarkhali, while police tried to disperse them by firing tear gas and blank bullets at some places.
“We completely cleared the road by 3 pm. Vehicular movement is now normal,” the police officer said.
Read more: Money Embezzlement Case: HC issues rule on bail of Major Mannan and 6 others
Money Embezzlement Case: HC issues rule on bail of Major Mannan and 6 others
The High Court on Monday issued a rule asking the government to explain as to why the bail of 7 people including Ex-MP and Bangladesh Industrial Financial Company Limited's former chairman Major (retd) Abdul Mannan in a case filed on charges of embezzling over Tk 9 crore, should not be cancelled.
The High Court bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Kazi Ibadat Hossain issued the rule following the plea made by the ACC seeking the cancellation of their bail.
Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan stood for the petitioner while Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik represented the state.
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The others accused are Bangladesh Industrial Financial Company Limited (BIFC) former director ANM Jahangir, Rois Uddin, Rokeya Ferdous, DMD Inamur Rahman, director AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and senior vice president Syed Fakhre Faisal.
On December 1, 2022, ACC Deputy Director Abdul Majed filed the case with its integrated district office in Dhaka-1, against 12 people, including Major Mannan over the embezzlement.
The accused in connivance with each other, in the name of Razia Sultana of M/s Telecom Service Enterprise, received Tk 9,77,94,892 loan from BIFC.
Later, they transferred the money to different bank accounts.
On March 7, the Senior Special Judge of Dhaka Metropolitan granted them bail.
Man killed over previous enmity in Mymensingh; 3 arrested
A 34-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by his rivals over previous enmity in Nandail upazila of Mymensingh on Sunday night.
The deceased was identified as Rana Ahmed, son of Abul Hashem of Banati village under Rajgati union of the upazila.
Police and locals said there was a long standing enmity between Abul Hashem and Bakul in the village.
The killers attacked Rana with sharp weapons when he was operating a mobile phone near his house on Sunday night, leaving him critically injured, they said.
Hearing his screams, locals rushed to the spot and took him to Upazila Health Complex where physicians declared him dead, they said.
Nandail Police Station Officer-in-Charge Abdul Majid said the previous rivalry between Hashem and Bakul might lead to the killing.
Three suspects have so far been arrested in this connection and drives were on to arrest the others, he said.
Temple fire: BGB deployed after mob attack kills two youths in Faridpur
Border guards were deployed on Friday after an angry mob beat two construction workers to death following a fire in a temple in Dumain union under Madhukhali upazila of the district, authorities said.
Five more workers who sustained severe injuries in the mob attack, have been undergoing treatment in a local hospital.
A tense situation has been prevailing in the area since last night's incident with all male members belonging to the Hindu community fled their homes, local administration said.
The deceased were identified as Ashraful, 21, and his younger brother Ashadul, 15, sons of Shahjahan Khan of Ghoperghat village under Naowarpara union of the upazila.
Faridpur Deputy Commissioner Md Qamrul Ahsan Talukdar said a fire broke out at Kali idols of the Barwari temple in Hindu-dominated Panchpalli village on Thursday evening.
Hindu residents became angry over the incident and they locked seven workers on suspicion of their involvement in the desecration of the idols.
The workers were constructing a wash block at Panchapalli Government Primary School, 20 yards off the temple.
On information, Madhukhali police and upazila administration officials rushed to the spot but the mob also confined them, the official said. With the help of Faridpur District Sadar and Rajbari District Police, the besieged people were rescued after a few hours.
Seven workers were rescued with injuries, four of them in a state of unconsciousness. The injured were taken to Madhukhali Upazila Health Complex and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical College Hospital in Faridpur, the DC said, adding that two of the injured succumbed to their injuries while undergoing treatment.
Meanwhile, three platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members led by a magistrate were deployed along with police to ease the tensions in the Dumain area, he said.
According to the DC a three-member committee has been formed to investigate the incident.
District Superintendent of Police Md Morshed Alam said they fired blank shots to bring the situation under control as hundreds of people took part in the attack. Several policemen were injured by the brickbats hurled by the agitators.
No arrests have been made in this connection and the situation is currently under their control. Police will remain deployed until the situation returns to normal, the SP said.
One of the injured workers Liton Mollah said noticing the fire they also took part in extinguishing it along with the locals. But the agitated people suspected the workers and tied their hands and feet and beat them up.
A large number of angry people attacked them with sticks, rods and bricks. They vandalised the doors and windows of the school, he narrated.
Local Dumain union parishad chairman said being informed from Ajit Babu, a member of ward number 1, he rushed to the spot and found thousands of people and tried to calm them. But it seemed that the situation was beyond control.
The chairman said he then informed the administration and the UNO who could bring the situation under control.
Another 13 Myanmar border guards take shelter in Bangladesh
Amid a conflict between the Myanmar military and the armed rebel group in Myanmar’s Rakhine, 13 more members of the country's Border Guard Police (BGP) took shelter in Bangladesh on Thursday night, the authorities said.
So far, a total of 274 BGP members have taken refuge in Bangladesh, said Shariful Islam, public relations officer (PRO) of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), on Friday.
At first, the BGP members surrendered to the members of Coast Guard (CG) in the Naf River after intruding into Bangladesh territory, it read.
The CG later handed over them to the BGB-11 battalion stationed in Naikhongchhari, the release said.
Earlier in February, 330 members of Myanmar security forces including BGP, army personnel and immigration officials had taken shelter in Bangladesh.
On February 15, they were handed over to Border Guard Police of Myanmar amid tight security.
Attempted murder case: Court summons Pori Moni
The High Court on Thursday summoned Dhallywood actress Pori Moni and her costume designer Junayed Karim Jimmy alias Jimmy in a case filed by Uttara Club Limited's former president Nasir U Mahmud on the charges of threatening and attempting to murder him.
Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Saiful Islam passed the order on Thursday.
The court also asked the two accused to appear before it on June 25, said Abul Kalam Mohammad Sohail, a lawyer of the plaintiff.
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The court discharged Fatema-tuz-Jannat Bony from the charges in the case as the investigation officer did not find any involvement against her.
Recently, Inspector Md. Monir Hossain, the investigation officer of PBI, filed its report before the court, saying they have found evidences against the two accused - Pori Moni and Jimmy.
Nasir Uddin Mahmud filed the case against three, including Pori Moni, on July 6, 2022.
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According to the statement of the case, Pori Moni and his accomplices entered the Boat Club after 12:00 pm on June 9, 2021, and forced the plaintiff to give a free bottles of alcohol. As the plaintiff did not agree to this, Pori Moni insulted the plaintiff and threw a serving glass at the plaintiff and also threw the mobile phone in his hand. Nasir Uddin was injured in the head and chest.
Later, in order to cover up the incident, Pori Moni filed a case against Nasir U Mahmud and two others accused of attempted rape and murder at Savar police station.
Two get capital punishment for killing 3 siblings in Ctg
A Chattogram court on Thursday sentenced two men to death for killing three members of a family in the city's Biyazid Bostami area in 2008.
Kamal Hossain Sikdar, judge of the First Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge, handed down the judgment on Thursday noon.
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The condemned convicts are—Abul Kashem alias Jamai Kashem, 70, and Yousuf alias Biatta Yousuf, 70 , hailed from Baluchhara area under Biyazid Bostami Thana in the city.
The court also fined Tk2 lakh each.
Kushtia court serves death sentence to suspended cop for killing wife, two others in 2021
According to the prosecution, the accused shot their neighbour Manowara Begum and her two brothers Alamgir and Saiful Islam to death over a previous land dispute in the city's Baluchara area under Bayazid police station on June 29, 2004.
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On June 30, a case was filed with Biyazid police station against four persons following a complaint lodged by victim Saiful's wife Aysha Akter Shilpi.
Of the accused, Gittu Nasir and Foiz Munna were killed in a gunfight.
Youth murdered for 'not supplying Yaba' in Ctg’s Mirsarai
A 30-year-old youth was killed by some drug addicts allegedly for not supplying contraband Yaba pills in Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram on Wednesday night.
The deceased was identified as Towhidul Islam Khokan, son of late Hashem Driver and a pickup driver by profession of Ajmannagar under Hinguli union of the upazila.
Victim’s wife Sanjida Akter said Khokan came out of their house to attend a pre-weeding ceremony at the house of local union parishad member Shahjahan and didn’t return home at night.
Local drug addicts Motaleb, Amjad and Rashed had called him over mobile phone several times and insisted on supplying them with Yaba pills on Wednesday night before he left the house but he denied to do so, she said.
The addicts murdered Khokan and left the body on the rail tracks to show that he was crushed under a train, she said.
Local UP member Mizanur Rahman said he informed police about the matter after he learned it from locals.
Monirul Islam, assistant superintendent of police (Mirsarai circle), said they assumed that Khokan was murdered as the body bore marks of injuries.