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Actor Sohel Chowdhury murder: Court to record statements from March 20
A Dhaka court has fixed March 20 to record the statements of the witnesses in a case filed over famous Bangladeshi film actor of the 90’s Sohel Chowhdhury on Thursday.
Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-2 Judge Zakir Hossain passed the order during a hearing, said Afrin Shilpi, Additional Public Prosecutor of the court.
She said that the court earlier had fixed Thursday for the accused to appear before court.
Of the nine accused, Tariq Sayeed Mamun was produced before court from jail but Harun Ur Rashid alias Leather Liton was not produced, said the APP.
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The court granted the appeals of accused Adnan Siddiqui, Faruq Abbasi for more time and fixed the date to start recording the statements, said APP Afrin.
Lawyers of the defendants Afakul Islam alias Bunty Islam, owner of Trumps club, businessman Aziz Mohammad alias Abdul Aziz and Selim Khan did not take any steps.
Meanwhile, other two accused in the case Sanzidul Islam Imon and Ashish Ray Chowdhury are absconding.
According to documents, the higher court cleared the way for trial in the case on February 27, last by withdrawing a long standing stay order.
On December 19, 1998, actor Sohel was shot dead my some terrorists in Trumps Club in Abedin Tower at city’s Banani-17 road.
A murder case was filed in this regard at Gulshan police station followed by a complaint lodged by Sohels’ brother Towhidul Islam Chowdhury.
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On July 30,1999, Abul Kashem Bepari, Additional police Commissioner of Detective Police submitted a charge sheet against nine people in this case.
On October 30, 2001, Dhaka’s third additional metropolitan session judge court framed charges against the nine accused. After two years of indictment the case was transferred to Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-2.
The same year one of the accused appealed the High Court.
Since 2003, followed by an accused’s appeal to the High Court, the trial in the case remained suspended for 19 years .
Husband among 3 detained over woman's death in Gazipur
Three persons have been detained in connection with the death of a 25-year-old woman in Gazipur, police said on Friday.
The deceased was identified as Ripa Akter, the wife of local factory worker Alamin (30), and a resident of the Bonmala area.
Police suspect Ripa was suffocated to death by the three suspects, including Alamin, on Thursday night over a family feud.
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"She was rushed to Shahid Ahsan Ullah Memorial Hospital where doctors declared her dead on arrival," said Sajal, sub-inspector at Tongi south police station.
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The body was sent for an autopsy, while the woman's husband, father-in-law Abul Kalam
and brother-in-law Alauddin have been detained for questioning, the officer said.
Woman, pregnant daughter murder in Narayanganj: 1 remanded
A Narayanganj court on Wednesday granted a three-day remand to the accused held over the murder of a woman and her pregnant daughter in Narayanganj’s Nitaiganj.
Earlier on the same day, Ramprasad Chakraborty filed a murder case at Sadar Police Station against Al Jobayer, 26, resident of Paikpara, for murdering his wife Ruma Chakraborty and their daughter.
Narayanganj Police Inspector Asaduzzaman said that Jobayer was produced before the court on Wednesday afternoon with a 10-day remand prayer, but the court granted a three-day remand.
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The inspector said the accused youth confessed that he killed the two women to rob money and gold from their house at Dalpatti in Nitaiganj on Tuesday afternoon.
Additional Superintendent of Police (Crime) Amir Khasru said, "We have interrogated Jobayer extensively. He said that he needed money to run his own business and that’s why he targeted the biggest house in Nitaiganj.”
Two gold necklaces and earrings were recovered from the accused Jobayer's bag which he took away from the house.
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Jobayer claimed that he passed HSC in 2013 and got admission in Computer Science and Engineering department at a private university in Dhaka, but due to financial crisis he couldn’t complete his studies, police sources said.
5 of family killed by locals in Bandarban
A man and his four sons were killed by a group of agitated villagers during arbitral proceedings to end a long-pending land dispute in Ruma upazila of Bandarban, police said.
The deceased were identified as Long Yu Mro, 70, and his sons -- Ranthoi Mro, 35, Rangi Mro, 30, Men Oai Mro, 25, and Ring Rao Mro, 20.
The alleged crime occurred around 11.30pm on Thursday in the Abupara area of Gadhalenga union of the upazila.
Gadhalenga UP chairman Mein Rok Mro said the family had a long-pending dispute over the land in question with some people in the area. During the arbitral proceedings on Thursday, some agitated people hacked the five family members to death.
Bandarban Police SP Jerin Akhter said that the area is 60 kms away from the town. "A police has been sent to recover the bodies. Action will be taken after an investigation," she said.
Now election means murder, horror: GM Quader
Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Wednesday said the election in Bangladesh has now become a name of killing and horror.
“The electoral system has collapsed in the country. It’s now the name of murder and apprehension,” he said at a function at the Jatiya Party Chairman’s Banani office.
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GM Quader, also the Deputy Opposition Leader in parliament, said people have lost confidence in voting and they no longer want to go to polling stations.
At the function, former army officer Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Taslim Uddin joined Jatiya Party presenting a bouquet in the hands of GM Quader.
The Jatiya Party chief said the people of the country want to see elections being held in a festive mood.
He said fair elections must be ensured to establish democracy. “People must be made election oriented and a strong election commission is needed in this regard.”
GM Quader said people want to know the list of names that the search committee is supposed to give to the President for the formation of the Election Commission. "The proposal given by the search committee should be made public.”
He said their party earlier gave a proposal to form the law on the formation of the Election Commission with giving the commission the necessary powers.
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“The Election Commission law has been enacted, but the commission has not been empowered. So, the Election Commission has to be dependent on the partisan government,” the Jatiya Party chairman observed.
He also feared that it would be difficult for a powerless election commission to hold credible elections.
3 remanded for slicing woman’s body after rape inside pharmacy in Sunamganj
A Sunamganj court on Sunday placed the accused pharmacy owner and two others on eight-day remand each for gang raping a woman, killing her and later slicing her body into pieces to hide their crime.
Judicial Magistrate Abdur Rahim passed the order after Inspector (CID) Liton Dewan, investigation officer in the case produced the accused before court and sought 10-days in remand for each.
After the court granted the remand, accused pharmacy owner Jitesh Chandra Gop,30, Anjit Chandra Gop,38, and Ashit Gop, 36 were taken under Criminal Investigation Department’s custody, said Sunamganj court Inspector Md Badrul Alam Talukdar.
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On February 17, six body parts of Shahnaz Parvin Jyotsna,35, wife of an expatriate, were recovered from the pharmacy named Ovi Medical Hall in Jagannathpur municipality area in Sunamganj.
The same day, a case was filed at Jagannathpur police station against Jitesh following a complaint lodged by Shahnaz’s brother Helal Ahmed.
On February 18, CID arrested the three accused from Dhaka and Sunamganj.
During primary interrogation, the arrestees confessed to killing Shahnaz after rape and then cutting her body into pieces to hide their crime, said CID.
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According to the accused, Shahnaz, mother of three children, had a good relationship with Jitesh as she used to buy most of her family’s medicines from his pharmacy.
On Wednesday afternoon, Shahnaz went to Jitesh’s pharmacy as he assured her of suggesting some medicines for her confidential medical issues.
He kept her waiting in the room behind the shop and later with the help of two more shop owners- Anjit and Ashit -made her unconscious by swallowing sleeping pills.
They raped her in the late hours of night and strangled her to death when Shahnaz said she will inform her family about the incident.
Later they cut her body into six pieces with a sharp knife and packed those in boxes.
They were planning to dump the boxes into a pond, said CID.
Woman held for killing twin daughters in Khulna
A 28-year-old woman was arrested on Saturday morning, a day after her twin daughters were found dead in a pond in Kushla village of Khulna.
Kanij Fatema, wife of Masum Billah of Matarchar village in Khulna's Mollarhat upazila, was nabbed from her parents house in Terokhada upazila.
She now faces murder charges in the death of her two children, police said.
Enamul Haque, a sub-inspector at Terokhada Police Station, said the couple got married four years back. But when Fatema got pregnant, Masum sent her to her father's house.
Two months ago, the couple was blessed with the twin daughters but Fatema continued to live with her parents. On Friday morning, local people found the bodies of the infants floating in the pond.
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During interrogation, police said, Fatema admitted to suffocating her two daughters to death on Thursday night as they had been crying. "Later she had dumped the bodies in the pond," Enamul said.
35-yr-old found dead in Bagerhat
A 35-year-old man was found dead at a banana farm in Ranjitpur village of Bagerhat's Sadar upazila on Friday night.
The deceased was identified as Delwar Hossain, son of Ilal Nikari of Bhotte-Kanakpur village in the upazila. He was a cycle van driver.
Local people spotted the body of Delwar in the area on Friday night and informed the cops, said KM Azizul Islam, officer-in-charge of Bagerhat Model Police Station.
Police suspect miscreants killed Delwar and dumped the body in the farm.
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“Efforts are on to identify the perpetrators of the crime and unearth the reason behind the killing,” said the OC.
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"The body was sent to the local hospital morgue for an autopsy," he added.
Local AL leader shot dead in Kushtia
A local Awami League leader in Bheramara upazila died while three others sustained bullet injuries after assailants fired at them on Friday morning, police said.
The deceased was identified as Siddikur Rahman, general secretary of AL in ward-3 in Chandgram union of the upazila. The injured are being treated at upazila health complex and Kushtia General Hospital.
Around 9am, Siddikur was working on his field in Charpara village with some farmers when the assailants fired at them and fled, said Mojibur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Bheramara police station.
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The locals rushed the four injured to Bheramara upazila health complex, where Siddikur was declared dead on arrival.
Police suspect the murder was the fallout of an old rivalry.
"The body has been sent for an autopsy and we are investigating the matter. Efforts are on to arrest the killers," the OC said.
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Cops have been deployed in the area to avoid any law and order situation, he added.
4 to die in garment worker murder case
A Dhaka Court on Wednesday sentenced four people to death for killing a machine operator of a garment factory in Ashulia.
Dhaka Additional District and Sessions Judge Ismet Ara handed down the verdict, said Shakila Jiasmin Mitu, counsel for the state.
The death row convicts are- Sohel Rana, Farhad Hossain, Md Ashikur Rahman and Md Nazrul Islam.
All of the convicts were fined Tk 20,000 each, in default, to serve six months more imprisonment.
Besides, the court fined them Tk 10,000 each, in default, to suffer five years more imprisonment as they demanded ransom.
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According to the case documents, Md Tanim, a machine operator of a garment factory in Ashulia, went missing on July 22 in 2017. Police recovered his body from a jungle near Khagan village in Ashulia three days later.
However,police could not identify the body and filed an unnatural death case in this regard.
Meanwhile, Tanim’s wife Nurunnahar filed a general diary at Kafrul Police Station on August 10 in the same year.
On the other hand, Tanim's mother Saida Sultana filed another case at Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court against Sohel alleging abduction and demanding ransom.
Ashulia police station was directed to take the case.
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The investigation revealed that the convicts recorded Tanim’s voice on a mobile phone and used the recording to demand money from Tanim’s mother . They also promised to let him go if she gave the ransom.