Dhaka Court
Sub-Inspector of police sent to jail in rape case
A Dhaka court on Tuesday sent a sub-inspector of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station to jail over a rape case filed with the Gulshan police station.
The accused sub-inspector is Khayerul Islam.
According to police sources, the rape victim went to Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station with a complaint a month ago but instead of filing it the sub-inspector said he will take care of the matter personally.
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Though the issue of that victim was solved Khayerul continued contacting her from different numbers.
After she changed her phone number, Khayerul again called her in the new number, abducted her to a Gulshan apartment and raped her there, said the victim in her complaint.
Read: Woman kidnapped from Dhaka kitchen market, raped by 3
Officer-in-Charge of the Gulshan police station Abul Hasan told UNB Khayerul Islam was arrested Tuesday morning followed by a case filed by the victim and was produced before the court.
Xulhaz-Tonoy murder: Six sentenced to death by Dhaka court
A special court in Dhaka on Tuesday sentenced six people to death for killing journalist Xulhaz Mannan and his theatre-activist friend Mahbub Tonoy in 2016.
Judge Mojibur Rahman of the Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal, also imposed a fine of Tk 50,000 on the convicts. However, the court acquitted two other accused in the case.
Read: Xulhaz-Tanoy murder: Charges pressed against 8
The convicts sentenced to death are Syed Mohammad Ziaul Haque alias Major Zia, Mozammel Hossain alias Simon, Arafat Rahman, Sheikh Abdullah, Md Asadullah, and Akram Hossain alias Abir. They are suspected to be members of the banned militant outfit Ansar-Al-Islam.
Zia and Akram are currently on the run.
Munia's death: Court accepts IO's final report clearing Bashundhara Group MD
A Dhaka court on Wednesday relieved Bashundhara Group Managing Director (MD) Sayem Sobhan Anvir from the charge of incitement to suicide of college student Mosarat Jahan Munia.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury released him after receiving a final report from the police.
Sub-Inspector Alamgir Hossain, General Registration Officer of Gulshan Police Station, confirmed the release order to UNB correspondent.
Read: Munia’s sister files no-confidence petition against final investigation report
Although the plaintiff submitted a no-confidence motion against the police report the day before, it failed to sway the court's decision.Earlier on July 19, the investigating officer of the case, Gulshan Police Station officer-in-charge Abul Hasan, submitted a final report to the court seeking Anvir's release.Bashundhara MD Sayem Sobhan 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.
This has been established without even taking the accused for questioning.
Munia was the married Anvir's lover, who was covering the cost of accommodating her in her posh Gulshan apartment, where he regularly visited her.
Police recovered the hanging body of Munia from the flat in Gulshan on the night of April 26. Munia's elder sister Nusrat Jahan Tania filed a case against Bashundhara Group MD Sayem Sobhan Anvir that night alleging incitement to suicide.
Read:Munia’s Death: Sister files GD after receiving death threat
There are apprehensions that that is the point at which the entire case outcome was effectively hatched. Incitement to suicide is almost impossible to prove beyond a shadow of doubt, and also easily bailable.
Police have hardly explored any other possibility - most glaringly, whether she was murdered. The entire conclusion would seem to hinge on having found Munia's body hanging by a scarf from her room's ceiling fan. Photos of the scene were leaked, and showed the dead girl's legs almost slumped and touching her bed.
There was no suicide note or even any suggestion that she wanted to kill herself, in conversations with her sister or anybody else. Rather, she was looking forward to her sister's arrival.
There had been a falling out with Anvir over the previous few days, and she would be heading back to Cumilla. This was not the first time - it had happened last year as well, when she left an apartment rented by her and Anvir in Banani, going back to Cumilla. No suicide attempt, just in case there was any history there. None.
It was only in March that Anvir had showed up in Cumilla and brought her back. But now things had gone awry again. In fact that is why her sister and cousins were coming to Dhaka anyway that day, April 26, to take her back home.
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That morning though, Munia began to call her sister Nusrat early in the morning in a distressed state. The first call Nusrat received was around 9-9.30am. Munia was insisting that she (the sister) come earlier than planned, and that she faced some grave danger. Not that she felt like killing herself.
The two sisters spoke a few more times. It was mostly Munia enquiring if they had set off yet for Dhaka from Cumilla, trying to hurry them. The last time they spoke was around 11.30am. Nusrat arrived at the house around 3.30pm.
In those 4 hours, Munia for some reason had decided to kill herself, and gone through with it as well.
Hundreds gather in Kashimpur as Pori enters lock-up
Actress Pori Moni was taken to Kashimpur jail following denial of her bail plea by a Dhaka court on Friday.
“She has been placed in the women section of the jail with other accused,” Abdul Jalil, jail superintendent (acting) of Kashimpur Central Women's Jail told UNB.
Hundreds of curious people started flocking to the main gate of Kashimpur Jail in the afternoon to steal a glance of the actress.
Their presence got so overwhelming that additional police were deployed in the area to keep the situation under control.
Read: Banks asked to provide account details of Pori Moni, Helena, 6 others
A prison van carrying the talk of the town entered the jail premise at around 6:55 pm, reported our correspondent.
Many were disappointed for not being able to see the actress despite waiting for hours.
Attempted murder case: Ron Sikder, Dipu Sikder cleared of charges
A Dhaka court on Thursday acquitted Shikder Group directors Ron Haque Sikder and Dipu Haque Sikder from a case filed by Exim Bank director Lt. Col. (retd) Sirajul Islam.
Sirajul Islam filed the case with Gulshan Police Station on May 12, 2020, alleging that Ron and Dipu tried to kill and harass the managing director (MD) and deputy managing director (DMD) of Exim Bank by shooting them.
After a long trial of more than a year, the final report of the case was submitted to the CMM court on August 9 by the DB police.
According to sources, the final report mentioned that the chemical test by the CID and the DB investigation did not find any evidence of shooting.
Read: Ron Sikder freed on bail hours after arrest
Although the statement of case mentioned that Ron Sikder had picked up and taken away the MD and DMD of Exim Bank from their head office in Gulshan, the police report stated that Exim Bank authorities could not provide any CCTV footage or any other evidence.
Although the case statement mentioned the main contradiction over the loan application of Tk 500 crore, Exim Bank failed to show any evidence of Ron Haque Sikder’s loan application, the police report said.
The final report of the police was presented in the court stating that the plaintiff and defendant had compromised saying that the case was filed due to misunderstanding of business.
It is mentioned that the good relationship between both the plaintiff and the defendant is a long-lasting one and they will continue to have good relationship with each other in future, too. Both sides promised that no one of them would complain in the future about the issues mentioned in the compromise.
Read: Sikder Group smelling a conspiracy
When the court asked plaintiff Sirajul Islam if he had any objection to the police report and the compromise, he told the court that he had no objection.
Ron Sikder was present at the court at that time.
After hearing both the parties, the court acquitted Ron Sikder and Dipu Sikder from the case.
2 ‘associates’ of Pori Moni-Raj placed on remand
A Dhaka court on Thursday sent Sharful Hasan alias Mishu Hassan and Md. Masudul Islam alias Jisan on remand on different terms in as many as five cases filed against them.They are reportedly members of an organised gang led by popular actress Pori Moni and Nazrul Islam Raj, owner of Raj Multimedia.Besides, model and former TV presenter Faria Mahbub Piyasha has also been reported to be involved with the gang.Mishu was placed on a nine-day remand in three cases filed with Bhatara Police Station under the Arms Act, Narcotics Control Act and Pornography Act.Besides, Jisan was placed on a seven-day remand against a 27-day remand prayer in three cases filed with Bhatara and Khilkhet Police stations under the Narcotics Control Act, Special Powers Act and Pornography Act.The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mamunur Rashid passed the orders after five investigating officers of the cases, submitted separate remand prayers.Earlier today, Commander Khandaker Al Moin, director of Legal and Media Wing of Rab, briefed reporters about Pori Moni’s detention at its headquarters in the afternoon.The Rab official further said that the duo were ringleaders of an organised gang.They carried out their activities in different posh areas of the capital including Gulshan, Baridhara, Banani, targeting people from affluent society and selling drugs in the name of party or DJ party. “Pori Moni had a mini bar at her residence and it was often used as the venue for such parties,” said Commander Moin.The elite force on Tuesday night arrested Sharful Hasan alias Mishu Hasan ,31, and his accomplice Md. Masudul Islam alias Jisan ,39, along with firearms and huge stash of contraband items from Bashundhara Residential Area, he said.A firearm, 6 rounds of ammunition, 13,300 pieces of yaba, an expensive Ferrari car, 2 laptops, several mobile phones, cheque books of various banks and ATM cards, passports of different countries and Indian counterfeit currency (Rs. 49,500) were seized during the raid.The Rab spokesperson said that the raids on the residents of Pori Moni and Raj were carried out based on specific information provided by Mishu and Jisan following their arrests.
Helena Jahangir put on 14-day remand in four cases
A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed ‘Joyjatra IPTV’ chairman Helena Jahangir, recently removed from the Awami League sub-committee on women affairs, on a 14-day remand in four separate cases.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahinur Rahman placed her on a 4-day remand each in two cases –one over fraud and another under the Telecommunication Act- filed with the city’s Pallabi police station.
The court passed the order when police produced her before the court after the end of her 3-day remand.
Read: 2 associates of Helena Jahangir held in Dhaka
Besides, Metropolitan Magistrate Nivana Khayer Jessy placed the accused on a 3-day remand each in two cases filed with Gulshan police station under the Digital Security Act and Narcotics Control Act
On July 30, the court placed Helena Jahangir on a three-day remand in the case filed under the DSA.
Earlier on July 31, police sought 5-day remand for interrogating her in the Narcotics case and 7-day in the case under filed under the Telecommunication Act.
Read: Helena Jahangir held from Gulshan residence after Rab raid
Public prosecutor Abdullah Abu represented the state side during the hearing of two cases filed with the Gulshan police station.
Lawyer Shafiqul Islam on behalf of Helena Jahangir submitted a petition seeking cancellation of remand.
On July 29, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Helena Jahangir, 49, from her residence in the city’s Gulshan-2 area.
Court orders freezing bank accounts of Sayeed Khokon, family members
A Dhaka court has ordered freezing eight bank accounts of former mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Sayeed Khokon and three of his family members.
ACC deputy director Jalaluddin Ahmed filed a petition on Sunday seeking steps to freeze the bank accounts as part of their investigation.
Read:HC rejects bail plea of suspended ACC director Enamul
Judge of the Senior Special Judge's Court KM Emrul Kayesh passed an order later in the day following the filing of the petition.
The eight bank accounts belong to Sayeed Khokon, his wife Farhana Alam, sister Shahana Hanif and mother Fatema Hanif as part of an investigation into allegations of corruption, a source at the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) told UNB on Monday.
Read:Taposh not fit to be mayor: Sayeed Khokon
Of the eight bank accounts, three belong to Syeed Khokon’s businesses, the source added.
Nasir, Omi placed on 7-day remand in narcotics case
A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed Nasir U Mahmud and Tuhin Siddiqui Omi on a seven-day remand each in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act.
Three women, also accused in the case, have been remanded for three days.
Also read: Pori Moni case: Police press drug-related charges against Nasir, four others
The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Nivana Khair Jessi passed the order after Udoy Kumar Mondal, an inspector of the Detective Branch of police and the case investigation officer, produced them before the court.
Earlier in the day, the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Kamrun Naher fixed July 8 for police to submit their probe report in the case filed by actress Pori Moni accusing Nasir,Omi and four others of trying to rape and kill her.
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DB police are investigating the case was filed at Savar police station on Monday.
DSA case: Charges pressed against cartoonist Kishore, 6 others
Police on Sunday submitted a supplementary charge sheet against seven people, including cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and Rastrachinta activist Didarul Islam Bhuiyan in a Digital Security Act (DSA) case filed on charges of spreading rumours and carrying out anti-government activities.
Read: Court asks PBI to investigate case over cartoonist Kishore’s torture in custody
Five other accused are Shamiul Islam Khan alias Zulkarnain Saer Khan, former managing director of BLE securities Minhaj Mannan Emon, Netra News Editor Tasneem Khalil, Ashik Imran and Wahidun Nabi.
Afchhar Ahmed, Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit (CTTC) sub-inspector and also the investigative officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's court.
Sub Inspector Md Nizam Uddin, general recording officer of the Dhaka court, confirmed the matter to UNB.
Read: Cartoonist Kishore files complaint “over torture in custody”
However, Afchhar dropped the names of four others including US-based journalist Shahed Alam, Germany-based blogger Asif Mohiuddin, and some Philip Schuhmacher due to lack of enough evidence against them in the case. The name of writer Mushtaq Ahmed, the main accused in the case, has been dropped following his demise.
In February, police submitted a charge sheet against three of the accused, dropping the names of eight others.
Later, a Dhaka court ordered the DMP CTTC unit to further investigate all the 11 accused in the case.
Read: Cartoonist Kishore released from Kashimpur
On May 6 last year, RAB filed the case against the 11 people with Ramna police station on charges of spreading rumours and carrying out anti-government activities, under the DSA.