Murder
Woman doctor found dead at Kalabagan flat, police suspect murder
Police on Monday recovered the body of a female physician from a flat in the city’s Kalabagan with an officer suspecting it may be a case of murder.
The victim was identified as Dr Sabira Rahman, wife of a private bank official Shamsuddin Azad.
Primarily, it seems that it is an incident of murder, OC Kalabagan police station Paritosh Chandra said.
The husband also claimed that his wife was killed.
Dr Sabira worked in the radiology department of Green Life Hospital in Dhanmondi.
Quoting neighbours, police said Dr Sabira shared the flat with another woman named Kaniz Subarna .Her husband Azad lives at Shantinagar.
Officer-in-charge of Kalabagan Police Station Paritosh Chandra told UNB that being informed, a team of the police went to the flat at around10:30 am and recovered the body from inside her room.
Kaniz Subrina, who completed LLB from World University, told Police that she went out on morning walk along Dhanmondi lake at around 6:10 am.
On return to the flat she smelt smoke was coming out from Dr Sabira’s room. As her room was locked from inside, she informed the matter to gatekeeper of the building, said the OC Kalabagan adding that they finally entered the room breaking the lock of the door.
The body of the deceased bored four injury marks at her backside, with a big one on her neck.
A CID crime team collected evidence from the spot. The detective Branch of the DMP detained four people, including Kaniz Subrina, one of her friends and the gatekeeper, for interrogation, he said.
The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for post mortem.
Azad went to the Kalabagan flat after learning about the tragedy. He claimed that his wife was murdered. “My wife has been killed. There is no doubt here,” he added.
College student beaten to death in Chattagram
A college student was beaten to death by miscreants at Boalkhali in Chattagram on Tuesday night.
The deceased was identified as Alamgir Hossain Emon, 24, son of Abdul Salam of East Charkhijirpur village of the upazila, a Masters student of Mohsin College.
Police have arrested two persons named Mohammad Syed and Mahbubur Rahman on suspicion of being involved in the incident.
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Abdul Salam, the father of the deceased, said, "Khorshed Alam, the son of the neighboring Nabidul Haque, has been trying to occupy my land for a long time. He also threatened to take over the land. Khorshed came to occupy my land with about 70 to 80 terrorists with domestic sharp weapons around 12:30 pm on Tuesday. When they tried to build a boundary wall, we stopped them along with the locals. When they returned at around 1:15 pm, they forcibly dragged my son to a distance down the road, beat him and strangled him to death."
Abdul Karim, officer-in-charge of Boalkhali police station said police rushed to the spot and recovered the body. Besides, they have arrested two persons.
The incident is under investigation, the OC added.
Abrar Fahad murder: Expelled Buet student joins online class after obtaining stay order
Lifetime expelled Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) student Ashikul Islam Bitu, who was allegedly involved in the Abrar Fahad murder, reportedly joined an online class of the Chemical engineering department last Saturday with a 'stay order' from the court.
After noticing him in the class, his classmates protested by changing their Zoom profile picture with the text which read "No class sharing with a murderer". They urged the university authorities to cancel his course registration otherwise they threatened to boycott academic activities.
BUET authorities on 22 November 2019 expelled 26 students including Ashikul Islam Bitu permanently for their alleged involvement in the Abrar Fahad murder case. However, Ashikul Islam was not named on the police charge sheet and recently get a 'stay order' from the court against his expulsion decision.
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BUET students informed that Ashikul registered four courses of level-3, term one after getting 'stay order' from the court
Later, students protested his joining the class and demanded the cancellation of his registration otherwise they will boycott classes from May 30.
Ashikul Islam told UNB, "I was not named in the charge sheet and was not involved with the murder. BUET expelled me for not helping in the investigation process. recently I get 'Stay order' from the court against my expulsion and return to the class maintaining all procedures. But I will not join further classes in this situation."
Abrar, a second-year student of the electrical and electronic engineering department, died after he was brutally beaten allegedly by some Chhatra League men at Sher-e-Bangla Hall of the university in the early hours of 7 October 2019.
Read: Prosecution witness testifies in Abrar murder case
The incident triggered a firestorm of protests on campuses across the country.
Abrar was murdered allegedly for his Facebook posts, which seemed critical of some deals with India.
Woman, her two children found dead in Bandarban
A woman and her two minor children were found dead at their home in Bandarban district's Champatoli on Friday night, police said.
The deceased were identified as Mazeda Begum, 40, wife of an expatriate in Kuwait, Nur Mohammad, and their two children -- 13-year-old son Rafi and 10-month-old daughter Noori.
Their bodies were discovered by Abdul Khalek, brother of Nur Mohammad, on Friday night, police said.
Assistant superintendent of Lama Circle Police Reazwanul Islam said, "Getting no response from his sister-in-law, Abdul peeped through the window of the house around 7.30 pm and found the bodies of the trio lying on the floor."
Cops were soon informed and a team from the local police station recovered the bodies after breaking open the door of the house around 8.15 pm.
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Police have arrested six people in connection with the deaths.
Those arrested have been identified as Shah Alam, Mohammad Khaled, Abdur Rashid, brother-in-law of Nur, Rahela Begum, elder sister of Nur, Rabiul, younger brother of Nur and Saidur Rahman.
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Police are trying to ascertain the motive behind the alleged killings.
Ex-MP among 3 held in Sahinuddin murder case
Three more persons, including a former MP, have been arrested in connection with the sensational Sahinuddin murder case, police said on Thursday.
Sleuths of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) raided a number of places in the capital and Bhairab upazila of Kishorgonj district and nabbed the trio in the early hours of the day.
The accused have been identified as Md Sumon Bepari (33), Md Rocky Talukder (25), and MA Awal, former MP of Laxmipur-1 constituency.
Sources at the RAB headquarters said that sleuths of the elite force conducted raids in Bhairab upazila late on Wednesday night, following a tip-off, and arrested the former MP in the early hours of Thursday. He is the prime accused in the case.
Similarly, the zonal team of DB (Mirpur) conducted raids at several places in the capital’s Pallabi and Rayerbagh areas and arrested Sumon and Rocky around the same time.
DMP’s Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC-Media) Iftakhairul Islam said that Sumon had plotted the murder and led the team of assailants. "His quick interrogation led to the immediate arrest of Rocky in the Kalapani area of Pallabi," he said.
Two other accused in the case -- Murad and Dipu -- were arrested earlier. While the Pallabi police nabbed Murad soon after the crime on May 16, Dipu was held a day after.
On May 16, the accused called up Sahinuddin on his mobile phone and asked him to come to Mirpur Section-12 on the pretext of resolving a land dispute.
When the victim reached the area around 4pm that day, the assailants attacked him before hacking him to death with sharp weapons in front of his seven-year-old son.
A murder case was filed at Pallabi Police Station on May 17 against several people, including MA Awal, Sumon and Rocky.
Mitu murder case: No confessional statement from Babul after remand
Chattogram's former police superintendent Babul Akter didn’t give any confessional statement at court on Monday after spending 5 days in police remand as accused in his wife, Mitu’s murder case.
Babul was produced before Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Sarwar Zahan’s court by the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) today.
The court sent Babul Akter to jail around 3pm as he didn’t give any confessional statement under section 164.
Assistant commissioner (prosecution) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police, Kazi Shahabuddin confirmed the matter to media and said it’s up to PBI now, if they want to appeal for remand again for interrogating the former SP.
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On May 12, Babul was taken under 5-day remand by PBI for interrogation after being arrested in a 5-year old case filed over his wife’s murder case by his father-in-law.
Former plaintiff now the prime accused of the murder case Babul Akter has mostly ignored any question regarding the motive of the murder during the interrogation, said the PBI officials.
He only said, “You know everything, what should I tell?” said the sources involved in investigation.
On June 5, 2016, unidentified assailants gunned down Babul's wife Mitu at the port city's GEC intersection while she was going to drop her son Mahir Akhter, 7, for a bus of Chittagong Cantonment Public School and College.
Soon after the crime, Babul had filed a murder case with Panchlaish Police Station against three unidentified men.
On June 24, 2016 night, he was interrogated for 15 hours at intelligence office in Dhaka and on September 6, he willfully resigned from the police service.
On May 13, this year, court placed Saidul Islam Shikder Shaku, seventh accused of the murder case on a 4-day remand.
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Eight people including Babul were accused in the case filed by Mitu's father, Mosharraf Hossain. The other accused are Kamrul Islam Shikder alias Musa, Ehteshamul Haque Bhola, Motaleb Mia alias Wasim, Anwar Hossain, Khairul Islam alias Kalu, and Shahjahan Mia.
Man killed over land dispute in Chattogram
A man was killed allegedly by his rivals over land dispute at Goronkhain Fakira Mosque Bazar in Patiya upazila of Chattogram district on Sunday night.
The deceased was identified as Ershad Alam, 36 of the upazila.
Rezaul Karim Majumdar, officer-in-charge of Patiya Police Station, said there had been a longstanding enmity between Rahim and Ershad over the ownership of a piece of land.
On Sunday, Ershad and his elder brother Mohammad Naser, 50, went to the disputed land as they were preparing to build a house which was supposed to be started from Monday.
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At one stage, Abdul Alim, Abdul Rahim and Abdul Nur appeared there and attacked them with sharp weapons, leaving Ershad and Naser injured around 8:45 pm.
Later, they were taken to Chattogram Medical College and Hospital where the doctors declared Ershad dead.
On information, police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control.
Action will be taken against the attackers, said police.
Babul among 8 sued in Mitu murder
A case was filed against eight people, including former superintendent of police Babul Akter, in connection with the death of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, who was killed in broad daylight in 2016.
Mitu’s father Mosharraf Hossain filed the case with Panchlaish Police Station on Wednesday noon, said officer-in-charge of the police station Abul Kashem Bhuiyan.
While talking to the reporters, Mosharraf, said: “I said earlier that Babul has an involvement in my daughter’s murder and now I came here to file a case against him.”
Read:Mitu murder case: Former Chattogram SP Babul Akter detained
Earlier, the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) detained Chattogram's former police superintendent Babul Akter following an investigation that made it clear that he an involvement in his wife's murder.
Santosh Kumar Chakma, the investigating officer of the case, said Babul himself came to the PBI office in Mansurabad on Tuesday afternoon to check the progress of the murder case.
On June 5, 2016, unidentified assailants gunned down Babul's wife Mitu at the port city's GEC intersection while she was going to drop her son Mahir Akhter, 7, for a bus of Chittagong Cantonment Public School and College.
Soon after the crime, Babul had filed a murder case with Panchlaish Police Station against three unidentified men.
Later, police arrested four people, including Abu Nasur Gunu, Shah Zaman alias Robin, Md Anwar and Md Motaleb Mia alias Wasim, from different places in connection with the murder.
Of them, Anwar and Wasim made confessional statements before a magistrate, implicating seven people, including Musa who directly took part in the killing, Mohammad Rashed and Nabi.
During the course of the probe, police had also arrested "arms supplier" Ehteshamul Haque Bhola and his assistant Md Monir and seized a pistol from their possession.
Police had also arrested Musa's elder brother Saidul Shikder Shakur and Shahjahan for providing the motorbike that was used in the murder. But on July 4, 2016, Nabi and Rashed were killed in a gunfight with police in Rangunia.
Read:Ex-SP Babul Akter finally held over 2016 murder of wife Mitu
The case was transferred to the PBI in 2019, after Mitu's father, himself a retired police officer, filed a complaint against the CMP's mishandling of the case.
Mitu's father had, in fact, accused Babul of being directly involved in the murder case. "He (Babul) should be implicated in the murder case... if he's not, we'll go to the court."
Babul had called for questioning a number of times by the PBI since his transfer, but he was detained.
Mitu murder case: Former Chattogram SP Babul Akter detained
The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has detained Chattogram's former police superintendent Babul Akter after allegedly establishing his involvement in his wife's murder.
PBI officials, however, told UNB on Wednesday that they would formally place Babul under arrest only after getting a fresh complaint from the father of his deceased wife. Based on the complaint, officials said, the PBI will lodge a fresh FIR for murder.
Banoj Kumar Majumdar, Deputy Inspector General of PBI, said, “Mahmuda Khanam Mitu's father Mosharraf Hossain will file a fresh complaint in the case, following which Babul will be formally arrested in the case.”
“As of now, Babul has not been arrested as he is the complainant in the murder case. We have already prepared the final report in the case and will soon submit it in the court,” he said.
Sources told UNB that Babul was detained by PBI sleuths on Tuesday night, after hours of questioning.
Santosh Kumar Chakma, investigating officer, said that Babul himself came to the PBI office in Mansurabad on Tuesday afternoon to check the progress of the murder case.
On June 5, 2016, unidentified assailants gunned down Babul's wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu at the port city's GEC intersection while she was going to drop her son Mahir Akhter, 7, for a bus of Chittagong Cantonment Public School and College.
Read: Ex-SP Babul Akter finally held over 2016 murder of wife Mitu
Soon after the crime, Babul had filed a murder case at Panchlaish Police Station against three unidentified men.
Later, Chattogram Metropolitan Police arrested four men, including Abu Nasur Gunu, Shah Zaman alias Robin, Md Anwar and Md Motaleb Mia alias Wasim, from different places in connection with the murder.
Of them, Anwar and Wasim gave confessional statements before a magistrate, implicating seven people, including Musa who directly took part in the killing, Mohammad Rashed and Nabi.
During the course of the probe, police had also arrested "arms supplier" Ehteshamul Haque Bhola and his assistant Md Monir and seized a pistol from their possession.
Cops had also nabbed Musa's elder brother Saidul Shikder Shakur and Shahjahan for providing the motorbike that was used in the murder. But on July 4, 2016, Nabi and Rashed were killed in a gunfight with police in Rangunia.
The case was transferred to the PBI in 2019, after Mitu's father, himself a retired police officer, filed a complaint against the CMP's mishandling of the case.
Mitu's father had, in fact, accused Babul of being directly involved in the murder case. "He (Babul) should be implicated in the murder case... if he's not, we'll go to the court."
Babul was called for questioning a number of times by the PBI since his transfer, but had never been detained.
Couple killed in Sunamganj over family feud
A man and his wife were stabbed to death over a family feud at Jamalganj in Sunamganj district on Sunday night.
The deceased were identified as Mursheda Begum and her husband Alamgir, 32, son of Tahir Ali of Beheli Alipur village of the upazila.
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Witnesses said Alamgir's cousin Russel, 28, stabbed the couple indiscriminately with a sharp knife while having dinner on Sunday.
When they were taken to Jamalganj Upazila Health Complex in critical condition a doctor declared them dead.
Alamgir's father Tahir Ali filed a murder case against Russel with Jamalganj police station.
Superintendent of Police Md Mizanur Rahman said they are trying to arrest the killer.