Murder
‘Drug addict’ teenage boy kills father in Rajshahi
A teenage boy, who is believed to be drug addict, allegedly killed his father failing to get money from him for purchasing drugs at Rajpara in Rajshahi city on Sunday.
Mazharul Islam, officer-in-charge of Rajpara Police Station, said the teenage boy used to take drug.He demanded money from his father around 10:30am but he denied providing any money.
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Failing to get the money, the boy stabbed his father, leaving him injured.
Later, Jewel was taken to local hospital where the doctors declared him dead.
Local people caught the boy and handed over him to police.
Rifat murder: Absconding accused Musa Bond arrested
Police arrested Musa Bond, 23, the absconding accused of Rifat Sharif murder case on Friday night from Barguna Mach Bazar area.
Though Musa was acquitted from the charges in this case police are yet to receive any documents, said KM Tariqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Barguna sadar police station.
Musa will be shown arrested in Rifat murder case and four other cases as an arrest warrant was issued against him already during the trial of the case, added the OC.
Read: Barguna Rifat killing: Wife Minni, 5 others sentenced to death
After the murder incident Musa fled to India and remained fugitive during the period of trial, said the OC.
Musa was a close ally of Ahmed alias Nayon Bond, the main accused in the murder case who was killed in an alleged gunfight with police on July 2.
He was also an active member of the Bond gang in Barguna.
On Sept 30, Minni and five others were sentenced to death for killing Rifat in broad daylight last year. Four others were acquitted.
Read: Rifat Murder: Court indicts wife Minni, 9 others
On Tuesday, 11 juveniles were sentenced to different jail terms in the case. The court sentenced six of them to 10 years in jail, four to five years and one to three years’ imprisonment.
The court acquitted three others as charges brought against them could not be proven.
According to the prosecution, Rifat, 22, son of Dulal Sharif, was hacked to death in Barguna district town on June 26 last year.
He was attacked near the main gate of Barguna Government College. Surveillance camera footage showed his wife Minni apparently trying to save him.
Twenty-four people were accused in the murder case filed by Rifat’s father. Minni, initially named as a witness, was later arrested on July 16 last year and made an accused.
Journo Muzakkir Murder: HC grants 3-month bail to 3 accused
The High Court on Sunday granted three-month bail to three men arrested in a case filed over the murder of journalist Borhan Uddin Muzakkir amid political infighting in Noakhali's Companiganj.
A bench of Justice Farid Ahmed and Justice Mohi Uddin Shamim passed the order after hearing separate bail pleas of the defendants.
The three accused - Yousuf Nabi alias Bahadur, Abdul Amin and Azizul Haque Manik – have been in jail since March 11.
Barrister Ruhul Kuddus Kajal presented the defendants’ side at the court and Deputy Attorney General Dr Md Bashir Ullah stood for the state.
Also read: Journalist Muzakkir murder: 2 accused denied bail
Dr Md Bashir Ullah said they will appeal against the HC order at the Appellate Division.
On February 19, clashes and gunfight took place between the supporters of Basurhat Municipality Mayor Abdul Quader Mirza and former Companiganj upazila chairman Mizanur Rahman Badal over establishing supremacy.
Both groups used firearms in the clash and the law enforcers fired several rounds of tear gas and shotguns to control the situation.
Muzakkir, a Noakhali district correspondent of online news portal Barta Bazar and also Companiganj correspondent for The Daily Bangladesh Samachar, suffered bullet wounds and fell on the ground when he was taking pictures and filming the intra-party clash.
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The critically injured journalist was rushed to Noakhali General Hospital and later shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he succumbed to injuries on February 20.
On February 23, Muzakkir's father Nurul Huda Master filed a case with Companyganj Police Station accusing unnamed people. Later the case was transferred to the Police Bureau of Investigation.
Schoolboy found dead in Sirajganj
Police have recovered the hanging body of a teenager from Chalavora village in Sirajganj’s Kazipur upazila.
The body was recovered Thursday morning from a tree near his house.
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The deceased was identified as Swapan (16), son of Mofazzal Hossain of the same village and a 10th grade student of Shimuldair Bohumukhi High School.
Officer-in-charge (OC) of Kazipur Police Station, Panchananda Sarkar confirmed the information and said Swapan went missing from his house around 8 pm on Wednesday (August 25). On Thursday morning, locals found his body hanging from a tree next to their house and informed the police.
Recovering his body, it was sent to Sirajganj Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib General Hospital morgue for autopsy. A UD case has been registered in this regard, he added.
Mentally disturbed woman drowns baby in Kushtia, held
A mentally disturbed woman allegedly drowned her four-month-old child in a roadside ditch in Bheramara upazila of Kushtia Wednesday.
The deceased was identified as Yaqub Ali, son of Mohan Ali of Chakmadia village. His mother has been arrested for the alleged crime, police said on Thursday.
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Locals told UNB that Akhi Khatun had on a number of occasions tried to kill the baby and that was the reason why the boy was being taken care of by his grandmother.
On Wednesday, Akhi brought the child home and later threw him in the ditch near her house. Locals informed the police after spotting the body floating in the ditch.
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On information, the police fished out the body and took the woman into custody.
Daulatpur Police Station OC (Investigation) Shafiq said Akhi had confessed the crime.
Sinha murder case trial: Court records testimonial statements for 2nd day
On the second day of recording statements of the witnesses in the Maj. (retd) Sinha Mohammad Rashed Khan murder case trial, the second witness, Sifat gave testimonial statement before a Cox’s Bazar court Tuesday.
The court was adjourned at 8pm and on Wednesday it will continue recording statement of Sifat and defense lawyers will cross-question him, said public prosecutor advocate Faridul Alam.
Recording statement of the second witness started in the afternoon after plaintiff Sharmin Shahria’s statement was cross-questioned by three defense lawyers including the lawyers of accused suspended OC Pradeep and Inspector Liakat Ali.
On Monday, the trial proceedings of the sensational murder case began with recording the testimonial statement of Sinha’s sister and plaintiff of the case Sharmin Shahriar Ferdous. Thirteen lawyers representing the defendants questioned her.
READ: Sinha murder: Defence lawyers allegedly obstruct trial
After completing the recording the statement of Sharmin, the court today was supposed to record statements of other five witnesses but due to shortage of time it couldn’t, said public prosecutor Faridul Alam.
All the 15 accused in the case were presented before the court during the trial today.
On July 31 last year, Sinha was shot dead at the Shamlapur police check-post in Baharchhara Union of Cox's Bazar while returning to town after filming for a documentary.
On August 5, Sinha's sister, Sharmin Shahriar Ferdous, filed a case with Teknaf Senior Judicial Magistrate Court accusing nine members of law enforcement agencies of being involved in the killing, including Pradeep Kumar Das and Baharchhara police outpost inspector Liakat Ali.
On December 13, 2020, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) submitted a charge sheet against 15 people, including police source Ayaz and three APBn members, in connection with the case filed over Sinha's murder at a checkpost manned by APBn, where officers of the Teknaf police station intercepted Sinha's car.
All of the 15 accused of the charge sheet are currently in jail. Of them 12 have given confessional statement before court except OC Pradeep Kumar Das, constable Sagar Dev and Rubel Sharma.
READ: HC refuses bail to another 3 accused in Sinha murder case
Other accused of the case are- Inspector of Baharchara Police outpost Liakat Ali, sub-inspectors Nandolal Rakkhit and Tutul, assistant sub-inspector Liton Mia; constables Shafanur Karim, Kamal Hossain, Abdullah AL Mamun, , Md Rajib and Md Abdullah, ASI of APBN Md Shahjahan and Nurul Amin, Md Nizamuddin and Ayaz Uddin.
Youth found dead in Thakurgaon
Police have recovered the body of a young man from an orchard in Ranisankail upazila of the district.
The deceased was identified as Kawsar, 32, son of Anisur Rahman of Jabarhat Karnai village in Pirganj upazila.
Read:Two youths killed in Keraniganj ‘gunfight’
Police said that some local farmers spotted the body while grazing livestock on Tuesday and alerted them. Cops also found a bottle of pesticide and a cell phone near the body.
Though cops feel that Kawsar committed suicide, his family suspects foul play. The family members have accused Kawsar's former parents-in-law of killing him over a feud. He had divorced his wife 11 days ago.
Read:Bodies of two youths found hanging from tree in Gaibandha
SM Zahid Iqbal, officer-in-charge of the Ranisankail police station, said a case has been filed in connection with the death.
Father of Awami League leader found dead in a Barishal house, police suspect murder
Police on Thursday recovered the body of a 70-year-old homeopathic doctor, his hands and legs tied, from a house at Chohotha in Barishal Sadar and suspected it to be a case of murder.
The deceased was identified as Prof (Retd.) Dr Md Manjur Morshed who was also a former principal officer of Agrani Bank. His son Jaglul Morshed is the general secretary of Awami League in ward 26 of Prince Nagar.
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The family said Manjur Morshed was alone at home on Wednesday night. On Thursday morning when his family called him they received no response. They found the window at back of the house broken.
On information, the Airport Police went to the spot and found his body with his hands and legs tied.
Kamlesh Haldar, Officer-in-charge of Airport Police, said the body had bruises on his nose and eyes. They suspect it to be a murder.
Read: Dismembered body of principal found in Savar
He also said a CID team was on the scene in this regard.
Preparations are underway to send the body to morgue for an autopsy, said the OC adding a case will be filed.
Biswajit Das murder case: Fugitive convict held in Faridpur
Police on Tuesday night arrested a fugitive criminal who had been on the run since his conviction in the 2012 Biswajit Das murder case.
Imran Hossain Imran, who was sentenced to life in jail in the case in 2013, was nabbed from a house in Char Bishanpur village of Faridpur's Sadarpur upazila, police said.
Acting on a tip-off, a team conducted a raid in the area and arrested Imran around 10.30 pm, said Subrata Goldar, officer-in-charge of the Sadarpur police station.
Imran will be produced in the court on Wednesday, the OC said.
On December 9, 2012, tailoring shop employee Biswajit was chopped to death by some BCL activists near Bahadur Shah Park in Old Dhaka during the BNP-led alliance's countrywide road blockade programme.
On December 18, 2013, a tribunal sentenced eight BCL activists to death and 13 others, including Imran, to life imprisonment in the Biswajit killing case.
On August 6, 2017, the High Court upheld the death sentences of Rafiqul Islam Shakil and Rajon Talukder and commuted the capital punishment of four other convicts — Mahfuzur Rahman Nahid, Emdadul Haque Emdad, GM Rasheduzzaman Shawon and Mir Nurul Alam Liman — to life term.
Mother, son arrested after 10 months of murder
The police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has arrested a man and his mother from Ashuganj upazila of Brahmanbaria district for their alleged involvement in a murder which took place about 10 months ago.
The arrestees were identified as Sabbir, 23 and Sheuli Begum, 45.
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They were arrested following a drive in a house in Ashuganj on Saturday night for killing Nabi Hossain, 30, a resident of Aganagar village in Bhairab upaizla of Kishoreganj district.
Chattogram Superintendent of Police Nazmul Hasan disclosed the information to media on Sunday.
“ Sabbir hired some contract killers and abducted Nabi from Kishoreganj. They killed him in a car and carried the body all the way to Chattogram and disposed of it in the Patiya area of the port city,” he added.
“When we recovered the body last year , it was totally unrecognisable. However we were able to identify it later through the ‘fingerprint identification and verification system,”said PIB inspector, investigation officer of the case, Monir Hossain.
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After receiving the body to the Nabi Hossain, Kabir Hossain, younger brother of the victim, filed a case with Patiya Police station against Sabbir and Sheuli who were on the runbefore being caught on Sunday.
An extramarital affair developed between Sheuli and Nabi and later she divorced her Saudi-expatriate husband and married Nabi, said the investigation officer.
This enraged her son Sabbir and he planned to kill him as revenge .
According to the plan, he hired three killers-Tushar, Sumon and Ashiq-to execute his plan.
Following a failed abduction attempt on October 15 they successfully abducted the victim the next day and later strangled him to death in a car in Cumilla before dumping the body at a jungle in Patiya of Chattagram.
According to the investigative officer of the case, Sabbir paid Tk 60,000 ( 15,000 in advance) to Sumon as part of their contract.Patyia police station recovered his body from the jungle the next day and resorted to modern technology to identify it.
The case was shifted to PIB after the arrest Sumon and his associates.
Later, they confessed to the murder in a Chittagong court under section 164.
Kabir Hossain, the plaintiff in the case, said, "My brother was brutally killed. I demand exemplary punishment of my brother's murderers.”