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Ekram murder: absconding death row convict arrested
Police on Friday arrested one of the absconding death row convicts in the sensational 2014 murder case of Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque Ekram.
The arrestee was identified as Ziaur Rahman Bappi, but there is a mismatch with his father's name as recorded in the docket, said Nizamuddin, Officer-in-Charge of Feni model police station.
Bappi was arrested from Dhumsadda village in Baligaon union during a drive on Friday evening, said the OC.
Bappi was one of the 17 absconding death row convicts in the murder case.
On March 13, 2018 Feni District and Session's Court sentenced 39 people to death in the sensational murder case. Of them, 22 are now behind bars.
On May 20, 2014 Ekram was killed by armed miscreants in front of Bilasi Cinema Hall. He was barricaded, shot with a bullet, hacked and later burnt to death.
His elder brother then filed a case with Feni model police station.
The 16 other fugitive convicts are Fulgazi upazila AL joint general secretary Jahid Hossain Jihad, Feni-2 MP Nizam Hazari’s cousin Abidul Islam Abid, Md Nafiz Uddin Anik, Arman Hossain Kauser, Jahedul Hashem Soikat, Jashim Uddin Nayan, Emran Hossain Russel, Rahat Md Erfan, Ekram Hossain, Shafiqur Rahman, Kafil Uddin, Mosleh Uddin Asif, Ismail Hossain Chuttu, Mohiuddin Anis, Bablu and Titu.
Feni man to die for killing wife on Facebook live
A court here on Thursday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife coming live on social media platform Facebook last year.
Feni District and Sessions Judge Dr. Begum Jebunnesa handed down the verdict.
The condemned convict is Obaidul Haque Tutul.
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Defense lawyer Abdus Sattar said a petition will be filed with the High Court challenging the order.
On April 16, 2020, victim Tahmina Akter’s father filed a case with Feni model police station against Tutul.
Later on the same day Senior Judicial Magistrate Dhrubo Jyoti Paul recorded Tutul’s confessional statement.
On November 16, SI Emran, second investigation officer of the case, submitted a chargessheet in the case.
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On January 13, this year, trial in the case began with recording testimony of the victim’s father.
On April 15, Tutul hacked his wife Tahmina to death and streamed the incident live on Facebook at his home at Uttar Barahipur union in Feni.
Later Tutul himself called 999 and informed police about his wife’s death.
Police arrested Tutul from the spot and seized a sharp weapon and his cell phone set.
OC among 30 injured in Feni clashes
Thirty people, including the officer-in-charge of Feni Sadar Model Police Station, have been injured in sporadic clashes between police and local people on Trunk Road in Feni town.
Police said the Central Puja Udjapon Parishad took preparations to bring out a procession protesting the recent incidents of vandalizing puja mandaps around 4 am on Saturday.
As part of their scheduled programme, the leaders and activists of the parishad thronged in front of Joykali temple on Dhaka-Chattogram highway.
Some youths standing in front of the Boro Mosque, hurled brick chips targeting the Hindu devotees, leading to a chase-and counter-chase.
On information, a team of police, led by Nizam Uddin, officer-in-charge of Sadar Model Police Station, rushed to the spot.
The clash spread to Boro Bazar, Boro Mosque, Central High School, Takia road and kitchen market areas of the district town, leaving 30 people, including OC Nizam Uddin injured.
A human-hauler was set on fire during the clashes.
Khandaker Nurunnabi, superintendent of Feni Police, said police lobbed teargas shells to bring the situation under control.
The clashes which started around 5 pm continued till 11 pm.
Thirty shops were vandalized during the clashes while some shops were looted.
However, the situation was brought under control after 11 pm, said Monir Hossain, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Feni Model Police Station.
2 die in Feni road crash
Two persons were killed and three others injured in a head-on collision between a microbus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Feni on Friday, police said.
The deceased were identified as Jamal Hossain, 38, and Hasna Akter, 17. Both the deceased were originally from Alankar union of Cumilla’s Chouddagram upazila.
According to police, bride Farzana Akhar Koli was returning home from a beauty parlour with her relatives in the auto-rickshaw on Friday evening when the microbus crashed into the vehicle near the Madhbaria intersection.
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The impact of the collision was such that the duo died on the spot. The third injured were rushed to Feni General Hospital by local residents. Farzana was later shifted to Chattogram Medical College Hospital as her condition worsened.
Feni Model Police Station officer-in-charge Nizam Uddin said the bodies were sent to the Feni General Hospital morgue for post-mortem. "Both the vehicles have been seized."
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Municipality polls: Feni mayoral candidate rescued after 4 hrs of abduction
A mayoral candidate in Feni's Chhagalnaiya municipality election was abducted allegedly by the supporters of the current mayor at upazila gate area before submitting his nomination paper Sunday afternoon.
Abducted mayoral candidate Abdul Halim, 38, son of Siddique Ahmed of West Chhagalnaiya village in the municipality, was rescued by police in the evening after four hours of abduction.
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Abdul Halim alleged he was going with some of his relatives to submit nomination paper for the post of mayor on the last day of submission.
When he reached the upazila gate, some supporters of current mayor and Awami League leader Mostafa stopped him and started beating him.
They later snatched the nomination paper from his hand and took him to an unknown place by an auto-rickshaw. So, he could not submit his nomination paper as the last date of submitting nomination papers was Sunday.
Later, police rescued him from the Banshpara area sent to Chhagalnaiya Upazila Health Complex.
Chhagalnaiya Circle Assistant Superintendent of Police Sohel Parvez said that they arrested two suspects --Shishir and Mezbah Uddin-- from the spot.
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Md Shahidul Islam, Officer-in-charge of Chhagalnaiya Police Station, said police are trying to arreste others involved in the incident.
On Sunday, two candidates for the post of mayor, 11 candidates for the three posts of (reserved seat) women councilors and 44 candidates for the posts of nine councilors in general wards submitted nomination papers.
Woman sentenced to life imprisonment for husband’s murder in Feni
A court here on Thursday sentenced a woman convicted of her husband’s murder in 2014 to life imprisonment.
District and session Judge Dr Jebunnesa passed the order against Shahnaz Nadia for her role in the murder of her husband businessman Kawsar Mahmud in Feni.
Hafez Ahmed, public prosecutor in the case, said, “We are satisfied with the exemplary sentence given to Shahnaz Nadia in Kawsar Mahmud’s murder case.”
Meanwhile defense lawyer Ahsan Kabir said an appeal will be filed with the higher court as the judgment was given based on confessional statement only.
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Kawsar’s brother-in-law Saif Uddin Mahmud said they will appeal for death sentence to the convict at the higher court.
Testimonial statements of 17 of the 29 witnesses in the case were recorded by the court in this case including the investigation officers and the plaintiff till September 15 this year.
On April 11, 2014 Kawsar went to visit a doctor with his wife Nadia when some miscreants near Falahia Madrasa in Feni hacked him with a knife and ran away.
Doctors announced him dead after he was rushed to Feni General Hospital.
The next day Kawsar’s father professor Abul Khayer filed a murder case against Nadia and one Md Harun.
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On April 13, 2014 investigation officer of the case Sub-Inspector Md Alamgir Hossain arrested Nadia from her residence.
Accused Nadia confessed to killing Kawsar alone before the court the same day.
On June 7, 2014 the case was handed over to SI Kamrul Islam for investigation.
Meanwhile the other accused of the case Md Harun was murdered by some miscreants.
On October 30, 2015, SI Kamrul Islam filed charge sheet of the murder case against Nadia and Harun.
Seven villages in Feni flooded as embankment collapses
Seven villages in Fulgazi upazila of Feni district have got submerged as the flood control embankment along the Muhuri River collapsed due to the onrush of water, destroying crops and dwellings.
The river was flowing 140 cm above its danger level, cutting off road communications with Parshuram areas.
Sources at the upazila administration and Water Development Board (WDB) said the embankment at Jaipur point in Fulgazi Sadar Union got damaged due to the deluge of water from across the border.
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They said the floods sent Fulgazi Sadar Union, West Ghaniamora, East Ghaniamora and Kismat Ghaniamoa, Jaipur, North Daulatpur, South Dinajpur and Bairagpur areas under water, damaging houses and huge crops.
Fulgazi Union Parishad (UP) chairman Nurul Islam said the floodwater poured into the villages through the damaged parts of the embankment at Jaipur part in Sadar Union.
Staff crunch leaves Sonagazi Health Complex in shamble; patients suffer
Sonagazi Health Complex, the lone medical centre for about five lakh people of the upazila in Feni district, is unable to provide proper medical services due to its manpower crunch and crumbling infrastructures.
Although the health complex was upgraded to a 50-bed one from a 31-bed one in 2014, its manpower, infrastructures and equipment remained unchanged.
According to sources at the hospital, the ceiling plasters of the hospital’s administrative building keep falling off regularly as it was built in 1977.
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Patients are provided medical services in shabby structures as people from nine unions and one municipality of the upazila visit it for treatment.
The medical services of its emergency unit and women's and children's wards are carried out on the ground floor of the two-storey building due to the space crisis.
Its physicians and staff are working with a sense of insecurity as plasters are falling off from its ceilings, while its walls and pillars have developed cracks and most of its doors and windows got broken.
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Sadequl Karim, a doctor at its emergency unit, said the hospital needs to be renovated or it should have a new building to offer better medical services to the residents of the unpazila.
“One of the major problems this hospital faces is the shortage of doctors and other staff. Everybody is overworked,” he bemoaned.
This hospital, he says, sees a footfall of 250-300 patients in its outdoor section on average every day while 60-70 get admitted to the hospital a day. But they have to stay on the floor due to a serious bed crisis, Karima added.
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Wife held in Chattogram over ‘killing husband’ in Feni
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Saturday arrested a woman from Chattogram as she allegedly killed her expatriate husband at her Feni residence.
The arrestee was identified as Rokeya Akhter Sheuli, 28, wife of Dubai-expatriate Md Sohel, 35, of Chauddagram in Cumilla.
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Sources of Rab said that two children of the expatriate were rescued.
Rab-7 Senior Assistant Director (Media) Mohammad Nurul Absar said Sheuli fled to Fatikchhari upazila of Chittagong from Feni with her two children after hacking her husband Sohel to death at their house on Sufi Sadar Uddin Road in Feni town.
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On information, police recovered the body and sent it to a hospital morgue, said Nizam Uddin, officer-in-charge of Feni Model Police Station.
On Saturday, she wandered different areas in Fatikchhari for renting a house. Later, on information, a team of Rab arrested her at night, according to Rab.
Robbing gold trader: OC Saiful again placed on 4-day remand
A court on Sunday placed suspended Feni Police Station OC Saiful Islam, a member of the district Detective Branch, on another 4-day remand, in a case over snatching 20 gold bars from a businessman on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway on August 8.Feni Senior Judicial Magistrate Kamrul Hasan passed the order after the investigation officer of the case produced the accused before court and prayed for a 7-day remand.The same court Saturday placed five other Detective Branch officials involved in the incident - sub-inspectors Motaher Hossain, Mizanur Rahman, Nurul Haque and assistant sub-inspectors Abhijit Barua and Masud Rana - on a second spell of 3-day remand.
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They were initially remanded for three days on August 11, said Golam Jilani, a police inspector posted at Feni court.Meanwhile, the case was handed over to the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) Sunday.Feni district police Superintendent Khondokar Nurunnabi handed the case over to PBI Superintendent Md Asaduzzaman.PBI Inspector Shah Alam, investigation officer of the Nusrat murder case, has been given the responsibility to investigate the case now.Six members of the DB of Feni police were arrested Tuesday night for allegedly robbing a businessman of 20 gold bars worth Tk 1.24 crore.The same day the six accused were temporarily suspended by the district police authority.
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