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A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the brutal murder of his two aunts in Dhaka's Shewrapara area, police said on Monday afternoon. The boy, identified as Rabbani Khan alias Taj, was picked up from his maternal grandfather’s house in Ashiar Gagan under Jhalakathi Sadar on Sunday, following a tip-off, said Joint Commissioner of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Nasirul Islam, at a press briefing. The victims were identified as Mariam Begum and Sufia Begum. Briefing reporters at the DMP media centre on Monday afternoon, Nasirul said, Taj left his rented house in Shanir Akhra at around 12:00 pm saying his mother that he was going for private tuition. Instead, he went to his elder aunt Mariam Begum’s rented flat in West Shewrapara under Mirpur police station by a CNG auto-rickshaw at around 12:50 pm. While his elder aunt was preparing lemon juice for Taj and his younger aunt was cleaning dishes on the veranda, he allegedly stole Tk 3,000 from a wallet kept near the TV in a room. When Mariam caught him in the act and scolded him, he stabbed her in the abdomen with a lemon-cutting knife. As she attempted to fight back, he stabbed her again. Hearing her screams, another aunt Sufia rushed from another room, but Taj stabbed her once as well. He then allegedly took a pestle from the kitchen and struck both women multiple times on the head, killing them on the spot. Bank official arrested on charges of embezzling money He later cleaned the blood from his body in the bathroom, changed his bloodstained clothes with his cousin sister’s jeans and a t-shirt, wore a cap, and locked the main gate of the flat from outside before leaving, saif the joint commissioner. He took a CNG-run auto-rickshaw to travel to Shanir Akhra, discarding the house keys and cap on the road. He paid Tk 450 as fare and threw away the remaining stolen money due to bloodstains. At a local shopping centre, he changed back into his pink panjabi and disposed of the bloodied clothes through a ventilator in a washroom. He also threw his shoes onto an abandoned building near his house. On May 10, the day after the incident, he left for Jhalakathi to attend the burial of one of the victims. Joint commissioner Nasirul further said the boy had been closely monitoring law enforcement activities and had attempted to evade arrest by moving between locations. Finally, the detectives identified Taj scrutinising video footage of the Shewrapara building. Later, they arrested him. Replying to a question, the joint commissioner DB said that Taj revealed that he had stolen Tk 3,000 to buy a bycycle. Further investigation is underway to determine if he was under the influence of drugs or acted under someone’s influence, he added. Acting on his confession, police recovered the bloodstained clothes from a sewer near the shopping centre and his discarded shoes from the abandoned building. One of the recovered jeans belonged to his cousin.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday acquitted two death-row convicts and commuted the sentence of another in a case for killing a woman and her daughter in 2008. A three-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order and asked the authorities concerned to free the convicts from the condemn cell as soon as possible. Those acquitted are Ismail Hossain Babu and Sonadi. The SC also commuted the death sentence of Tariqul Islam to life imprisonment in the case. Read:SC suspends bail order by HC to Regent’s Shahed in arms case Advocate Helal Uddin Molla stood for the petitioner while deputy attorney general Bashir Ahmed represented the state. Miliara Khatun and her daughter Parveen of Godagari upazila in Rajshahi district were killed on October 10, 2006. In 2008, a court in Rajshahi sentenced Ismail, Sonadi and Tariqul to death in the double murder case. Later, the convicts filed separate appeal petitions before the High Court. In 2014, the High Court upheld the death sentence of the convicts.

A Dhaka Court on Sunday placed an Awami League leader and four others on five-days' remand over the murder of an Awami League politician and a female college student in Shahjahanpur. The accused are Omar Faruk, 52, general secretary of No 10-ward unit of the Awami League, and Abu Saleh Shikder alias shooter Saleh, 38, Nasir Uddin alias Killer Nasir, 38, Morshedul Alam alias Kayla Palash, 51, and Arfanullah Damal. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Syed Mostafa Reza Nur passed the order when the investigation officer Yeasin Shikder, inspector of the Detective Branch of Police, produced them before the court with 10-day remand prayer. On Friday night, the Awami League politician was among four people detained by the elite Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in connection with the Shahjahanpur shooting. Also read: Shahjahanpur double murder: Ruling AL politician among 4 held On the night of March 24, AL politician Zahidul Islam Tipu, who was on a microbus, and Samia Afrin Priti, a 22-year-old college student, who was returning home on a rickshaw, were killed in firing in front of Islami Bank Hospital. Tipu was a former general secretary of the AL Motijheel committee and Priti was a student of Begum Badrunnesa Government College. Tipu’s driver was also injured in the firing. They were all stuck in a traffic jam in the area when a biker wearing a helmet and a mask appeared from nowhere and fired at them. The next day, a case was filed against unidentified people over the double murder. Also read: Shahjahanpur double murder: Second suspect put on 1-day police remand On March 27, police arrested Akash, 34, the prime accused in the double murder case from Bogura district. The next day, a Dhaka court placed Akash on a seven-day police remand for custodial interrogation. On March 31, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detectives arrested Arfanullah conducting a drive in the city’s Kamalapur area. He was placed on one-day remand on Friday.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday dismissed an appeal challenging the life term sentence of Oishee Rahman, who murdered her parents in 2013.

Tangail, Oct 16 (UNB) - Bodies of a couple who were engaged in an extramarital affair were found in Rafafoir village of Kalihati upazila in Tangail on Friday.

Two young men were hacked to death at Barpara village of Manirampur upazila on Thursday.

A court here on Sunday sentenced four people to death and seven others to life imprisonment for killing two men in 2016 for protesting against eve-teasing of a seventh grader.

A court here on Tuesday placed five people, including key suspect Surovi Akhter Nahida, on a five-day remand each over the murder of a woman and her domestic help in the city’s Dhanmondi area.

Police detained three people on Friday night over the murder of two women in city’s Dhanmondi area.