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Cop killed in Naogaon road crash
A policeman was killed as a speeding truck rammed into his motorbike in Patnitola upazila of the district Sunday morning.
The deceased was Rulul Amin, 33, an assistant sub inspector of Patnitola police station and a resident of Joypurhat Sadar upazila.
Witnesses and police said Ruhul was going to the police station from Modhuil Bazar by his motorbike amid dense fog.
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The accident occurred around 10: 30 am when the truck hit the motorbike on Nazipur-Sapahar Road in Chakabdal Kunchipukur area, leaving him dead on the spot, said Palash Chandra Dev, officer-in-charge of Patnitola police station.
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The body was sent to Sadar hospital morgue for autopsy, he said adding that it will be handed over to his family after completing legal procedures.
A case was filed in this connection, he said.
Naogaon: 10, including 5 brothers, get life in prison for 2013 murder
A Naogaon court on Wednesday sentenced 10 people, including five brothers, to life imprisonment for the 2013 murder of a farmer over the ownership of a deep tube well in Badalgachhi upazila.
Judge Ferdous Wahid of Naogaon Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-2 gave the order during a hearing in the presence of the accused. He also fined them Tk20,000 each, in default of which they will have to serve two more years in jail, state lawyer Md Abdu Baki said.
The court, however, cleared three people of charges as they were not proven guilty, he added.
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The lifers are Kamruzzaman, his brothers Wahed Ali, Shamsuzzaman, Rocket and Dablu; Abdul Hamid and his brother Enamul Hoque; Mosharraf Hossain, Bajlur Rahman and Emdadul Hoque from the village Durgapur.
Bajlur's wife Karima Begum, Enamul's wife Joly Akter and Md Jibon Ahmed of the same village were cleared of charges.
According to the case statement, two groups of villagers had been at loggerheads over the ownership of the deep tube well in Durgapur. A group of armed men led by Kamruzzaman swooped on farmer Ujjal Hossain and three others over it, leaving them critically injured, on May 9, 2013.
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Ujjal succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital four days later.
On the following day, the village's Deep Tube Well Association General Secretary Majharul Islam filed a murder case accusing 13 people at Badalgachhi Police Station.
Road crashes leave seven dead in Naogaon & Sylhet
Seven people were killed and three others injured in separate road accidents in Naogaon and Sylhet on Friday morning, police said.
In Naogaon, the accident occurred on the Naogaon-Rajshahi highway in Sadar upazila around 8am when a truck collided with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw.
Five people, all occupants of the auto-rickshaw, died in the impact of the collision in the Bablatali area of the highway, said Nazrul Islam Jewel, officer-in-charge of Naogaon Sadar Model Police Station.
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Cops couldn’t identify the deceased immediately.
Meanwhile, in Sylhet, a woman and her son were killed when a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Companiganj at 6am.
The deceased were identified as Hanufa Begum and her son, Emraj Mia, of the upazila, said police.
The speeding truck crashed into the auto-rickshaw coming from the opposite direction in Telikhan of the upazila, leaving the mother-son duo dead on the spot and three others injured, Sukanta Chakraborty, officer-in-charge of Companiganj police station, said.
The injured have been admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College and Hospital (SOMCH), he added.
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The bodies will be handed over to the family members after completing legal formalities, said the OC. "We have seized the truck. But its driver and helper managed to escape."
3 hanging bodies recovered from different parts of Naogaon in 24 hours
Police have recovered the bodies of three persons from Manda upazila of Naogaon in the last 24 hours.
The deceased have been identified as Abdus Samad, 58, of Dakshin Mainam village of Manda upazila, Rabindranath Pike, 66, of Binoy Bazar area of Prasadpur union and Sabbir Hossain, 26, of Chakrajapur village.
Sabina Khatun, daughter of the deceased Abdus Samad, said that after the death of her mother, her father married a woman named Mausumi Khatun. Due to feud, his father divorced her stepmother a few months ago.
On Thursday evening, his father left the house with her sister Samia. Since then, he had been missing. At one stage of the search, his father's body was found hanging from a mango tree in Rubel Hossain's garden near the house at around 3 am, she added.
On the other hand, Rabindranath Pike's son Ratan Pike said that his father Rabindranath had been ill for a long time. At night he used to sleep on the veranda of the house. He has not been seen since 9pm on Thursday. Later, his body was found hanging from a tree in a mango orchard near the house, he added.
Surma Begum, wife of the deceased Sabbir Rahman, said that her husband closed the bedroom in the house on Friday noon. As he did not respond for a long time, the door of the house was broken and his body was found hanging from the fan.
Shahinur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Manda police station said three bodies were recovered within 24 hours in separate incidents and sent to Naogaon Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Three unnatural death cases have been filed at Manda police station in the incident, the OC added.
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Hijab Row: Head teacher Dharani Kanta lands in jail in case filed by Amodini Pal
A court here on Sunday sent Dharani Kanta Barman, head teacher of the Daul Barbakpur High School in Naogaon’s Mahadebpur that shot to the nation's attention over a contrived hijab row, to jail after he was taken into custody in a case filed by assistant head teacher Amodini Pal.
Naogaon Senior Judicial Cognizance Court-3 Judge Tajul Islam passed the order after accused Dharani Kanta appealed for bail appearing before the court.
Earlier on Thursday night QM Sayeed Tito, and Kazi Samshuzzaman Milon were arrested in the same case.
The arrestees are among about 20-25 people against whom the teacher Amodini Pal filed a case of defamation for falsely implicating her in the incident and hurting religious sentiment by spreading misinformation.
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On April 9, Amodini Pal, assistant headmistress of Daul Barbakpur High School, filed a against these people, including the headmaster of the school Dharani Kant Barman, president of the school managing committee Mahmudul Hasan Sumon and Salauddin Ahmed, a resident of Gaherpur village in Porsha upazila.
Earlier on April 10, Dharani kanta Barman filed a general diary at the same police station accusing 150 anonymous people for spreading rumors about a teacher beating up students for wearing hijab in school and vandalising school property.
That was in relation to an incident from April 6, when Amodini Pal, assistant headmistress of the school allegedly caned 16-18 students of the 8th, 9th and 10th classes for not wearing school uniforms.
Later, it was distorted into an issue over hijab, as some of the girls who got punished were wearing their hijab. But even male students were punished on the day, by a different teacher.
On April 11, a three member administrative probe body formed in this regard submitted a report to Mohadebpur Upazila Nirbahi Officer Mizanur Rahman.
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The committee did not find proof of students being punished for wearing hijab, rather it said Amodini Pal and Badiul Alam punished some students for not wearing school dress and there were male students and Hindu students among them.
JMB death row convict nabbed after absconding for years
An operational team of Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU), a specialized unit of Bangladesh Police, arrested a fugitive death row convict, a member of banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), from Nazipur area under Patnitla police station in Naogaon district.
The arrestee was identified as Md Sanwar Hossain aka Rauf, 44, son of late Ershad Ali of village Chhoto Chandpur of Nazipur under Patnitla police station in Naogaon district.
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An operational team of the ATU came to know that Sanwar was hiding under the name of Abdullah in Chhota Chandpur area. Sanwar used to work as a mason as well as raising sheep there.
Based on the secret information, the ATU team conducted a raid at the village Chhoto Chandpur area on Saturday evening, and arrested Sanwar Hossain, a member of the Isaba Group (Military Wing), said Mohammad Aslam Khan, SP (Media & Awareness wing of the ATU).
Arrested Md. Sanwar Hossain became a member of the banned JMB after 2000 under the leadership of Shaikh Abdur Rahman. At that time, he was working as a homeopathic doctor and head of JMB in Nachol and Gomstapur, he said.
When Shaikh Abdur Rahman was hanged in Comilla Central Jail on March 29, 2007, Maulana Saidur Rahman became the Amir of the militant group. They later continued their activities amid their internal-conflict. Later, the self-proclaimed Amir of the JMB Salman was called to Khulshi Boria Ambagan area under Nachol police station where he was killed.
According to the information given by the arrested A. Shakur alias Shakur and Jahangir, Salman's decapitated head was recovered from the bank of the river Mahananda, said the SP (media & Awareness) wing of the ATU Aslam Khan.
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Arrested Sanwar Hossain had been working secretly for 10 years to activate the old JMB in different areas of Chapainawabganj and Naogaon. Two arrest warrants under anti-terrorism Act (death-convicted) were pending at Nachol police station in Chapainawabganj. Moreover, he was accused in another case filed with Gomstapur police station of Chapainawabganj.
It may be mentioned that on November 25, 2019, the Additional District and Sessions Judge of Chapainawabganj district sentenced three people, including arrested Sanwar, to death in the Salman murder case.
Two held over Naogaon ‘Hijab’ row
Police on Friday arrested the prime accused and another person for spreading rumours that a teacher beat some students for not “wearing hijab” at a school in Naogaon.
The rumour spread on social media led to a mob vandalising school property.
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The arrestees have been identified as QM Sayeed Tito, 60, a resident of Upazila Sadar and Kazi Samshuzzoha Milon, 45, of Kushar Center area.
The arrestees are among about 20-28 people against whom the teacher Amodini Pal filed a case for falsely implicating her in the incident.
Amodini Pal, assistant headmistress of Daul Barbakpur High School in Naogaon’s Mohadevpur filed a case on April 9 against these people, including including the headmaster of the school Dharani Kant Barman, president of the school managing committee Mahmudul Hasan Sumon and Salauddin Ahmed, a resident of Gaherpur village in Porsha upazila.
Later, police conducted a special drive and arrested the two from Librarypatti and Kushar Center areas of the upazila around 3:30 am on Friday, siad Azam Uddin Mahmud, officer-in-Charge (OC) of Mahadevpur Police Station.
"We are trying to nab the other accused", he added.
“On 7 April, the school was attacked following the rumour. Many people from the villages around the school attacked and vandalised property of the school”.
Earlier, on 6 April, Amodini Pal, assistant headmistress of the school allegedly beat 16-18 female students in the 8th, 9th and 10th grades of the school “for not wearing school uniform”.
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Later, the incident was twisted into a “hijab” row and went viral on social media.
On Saturday, a show-cause notice was served to the accused teacher ordered by the Upazila Secondary Education Officer.
Upazila administration formed a three-member committee to investigate the incident.
The committee submitted its report to Mahadevpur Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Mizanur Rahman around 8pm on Monday.
The report said, ‘Two teachers beat some students of the school for not wearing school uniform. Among them, there were Hindu female students and male students too'.
However, the investigation report did not find anything that the students were beaten for wearing ‘hijab’.
Amodini Pal punished students for not wearing uniform, not over hijab: Probe report
An administrative probe body formed over rumors about a teacher beating up students for wearing hijab at Daul Barbakpur High School in Naogaon’s Mahadebpur submitted a report after investigation on Monday.
The committee has found evidence that some teachers and members of the management committee of the school had spread rumors against assistant headmistress Amodini Pal due to internal conflicts.
The head of the committee Abdul Maleque, upazila livestock officer, along with two other members submitted the report to Mohadebpur Upazila Nirbahi Officer Mizanur Rahman around 8pm.
UNO Mizanur Rahman said the committee did not find proof of students being punished for wearing hijab.
The report said,”The committee believes that the school's assistant headmaster Amodini Pal and physical education teacher Badiul Alam have beaten the students on April 6 because of their school dress. Due to the internal dilemma of the school, a group attempted to divert the incident toward the hijab issue”.
The inquiry committee has recommended legal action against those who have spread the rumor.
The committee also recommended taking legal action against some 150 to 200 people who attacked the school on April 7 triggered by the rumor.
UNO Mizanur Rahman said, “Head teacher of the school Dharani Kanta Barman only show-caused Amodini Pal for the incident which seemed intentional to the committee so it has recommended taking departmental action against him.”
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The report also recommended taking departmental action against teacher Amodini Pal and teacher Badiul Alam for physically beating students in violation of government directives, he said.
Regarding identifying the people who spread the rumors, UNO Mizanur said,”Some people have been identified by the committee. Their names will be disclosed after taking legal actions.”
He said that the observations and recommendations made by the inquiry committee will be taken into account and action will be taken where necessary in this incident.
Earlier on April 6, Amodini Pal, assistant headmistress of the school allegedly beat 16-18 students in the 8th, 9th and 10th classes of the school around 11am for not wearing school uniforms.
Later, it turned into a "hijab" row and spread on social media.
Although some of the girls who got punished were wearing hijab, others who violated the uniform code without wearing hijab, and also some boys (who were dealt with by a different, male teacher), were at the receiving end of the teachers' punishment on the day.
Man shoots himself dead in Naogaon
A resident of Naogaon’s Patnitala committed suicide shooting himself on Wednesday morning.
Yakub Ali, 55, killed himself with his licensed gun at his residence in Cheradanga village under Akbarpur union of the upazila.
Officer-in-charge (OC) of Patnitala Police Station Shamsul Alam said Yakub Ali used to live with his family and relatives in Cheradanga village. He shot himself in the head with his gun on the roof of his house.
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His wife Morzina Khatun heard the sound of gunfire, and then they found Yakub's body on the roof top. On information, police recovered the body and seized the gun.
However, police or family members could hardly venture even a guess as to why Yakub would choose this path.
A case of unnatural death (UD) was filed at Patnitala police station.
Bus-truck collision leaves 4 dead in Naogaon
Four people, including a two-year-old child, were killed and 15 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Naogaon on Wednesday night, police said.
The accident occurred around 9pm on Badalgachi-Patnitala Regional Road in the district's Mohadevpur upazila.
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"The Naogaon-bound bus crashed into the truck coming from the opposite direction at high speed, as its driver could not apply brakes at the last minute," said Azam Uddin Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Mohadevpur police station.
Two passengers of the bus died on the spot and 17 were injured in the impact of the collision, he said.
The injured were taken to Badalgachi Upazila Health Complex and Naogaon Sadar Hospital. Five of the seriously injured were later shifted to Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) after their condition worsened.
"The child succumbed to his injuries at Naogaon Sadar Hospital that night only, while another injured at Badalgachi Upazila Health Complex died on Thursday morning," said the OC.
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Two of the deceased were identified as Abdur Rashid, 37, and Girij Pahan, 35, of Soasa village in Badalgachi upazila. The identity of the child and another deceased could not be known immediately.
A case of rash and negligent driving has been filed at Mohadevpur police station, the officer added.