Law-&-Order
RAB arrests 1 operative of fake currency making gang in Dhaka
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an operative of a gang involved in making fake currency from Kadamtali area of Dhaka on Thursday night.
The arrestee is Jisan Hossain Rifat, 19, who learned how to make the fake currency through watching video contents on YouTube.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Mohiuddin Mahmud Sohel, company commandant of the elite force, revealed this information at a press conference in the RAB-10 office of Dhaka’s Jatrabari area on Friday noon.
Rifat used to print and supply fake currency notes in different areas of the country including Jatrabari, Shyampur, Demra and Narayanganj.
He said that the arrestee watched videos on YouTube to learn how to make fake money in greed and ambitious dreams to earn more money in a short time.
He also received training in making fake currency notes from gangs using various means and later he himself made fake notes and supplied them in various ways, the RAB officer said.
After making the notes, he created a Facebook page to sell and supply them to different people. However, all the information was exchanged in the messenger, he said.
Rifat and his gang members used to sell the fake notes at fish markets, launch ghats, bus terminals and other markets and supplied fake notes worth Tk 2 crore across the country, the RAB official said.
During the arrest, fake notes of different denominations of Tk 2, 30, 900 and various equipment, including computers, were recovered during the drive in a house in the Kadamtali area, he added.
UP chairman among four sued for forgery in Ctg
A case was filed against a Union Parishad (UP) chairman and three other current and former members on charges of forgery of heir certificates in Chattogram on Thursday.
Hasan Murad, a resident of Amuchia union under Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram, lodged the case against them with the court of Chattogram Senior Judicial Magistrate judge Shariar Iqbal.
The accused are Amuchia UP chairman Kajal Dey, current members Sayeeda Sajia Emdad, Sirajum Munira and former UP member Muslim Uddin.
Advocate Asaduzzaman Khan, the lawyer of the plaintiff, said that his client filed the case bringing the allegations of forging the heir certificate.
Taking the allegations into cognisance, the court ordered the officer-in-charge of Boalkhali police station to submit a report after investigation.
According to the statement, accused Sirajum Munira made a fake national identity card showing ‘deceased Abdul Salam’ as ‘his father’. Hasan Murad is one of the heirs of Abdul Salam.
On November 1, 2021, a fake heir certificate was issued from the UP through forgery in the collaboration with each other accused.
UP member Sayeeda Sajia attested the certificate while Kajal Dey signed and Md Muslim identified.
The accused jointly tried to grab the land property of the deceased Abdus Salam.
ACC finds irregularities in providing medical services to patients at DMCH
The Anti-Corruption Commission ( ACC) on Thursday conducted an enforcement operation following complaints of irregularities in providing medical services to patients at Dhaka Medical College Hospital ( DMCH)
During the operation, when the team stayed in the hospital in disguise, various irregularities were observed in the provision of services to the patients.
The truth of the complaint is found by talking to the patients and their relatives who come for the service, the ACC team said.
The team also observed during the raid that various attendants of the radiology department were charging more than the stipulated price from the patients for the tests.
Alongside, the team also found during the operation that money was being extorted by some Ansar members for providing quick services to patients.
Later, the hospital authority assured the team during the meeting with the director of the hospital that they would take action about the irregularities.
The enforcement team will submit a detailed report to the commission after reviewing the information collected during the operation.
Crimes, injustices can be eradicated if journalists and police work together: DMP Chief
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Habibur Rahman said on Wednesday that if police and journalists work together targeting one goal and objective many crimes and injustices can be eliminated from the country.
The DMP chief was speaking at the unveiling ceremony of Mizan Malik's poetry book at Crime Reporters Association of Bangladesh (CRAB) office in Segunbagicha on Wednesday.
"If we work unitedly, we will be able to build a beautiful country and a society what poet Mizan Malik has said in his book," he said.
He also said that many people alleged that journalists write against the police. “But I welcome many reports that went against the police because I got much information through their writings.”
“There are many things we even forget because of our busy schedule. But we can recollect that information from the journalists. Our detective teams also gathered information from them. Many times, we get a lot of intelligence information by reviewing the news through newspapers. They are also useful for us.”
Journalists can work as a complement to the government apparatus as government officials work. And if it can be done properly, then it will be beneficial for the country and society, he believed.
Among others, Director General of Bangladesh Shishu Academy Anjir Liton, President of Crime Reporters Association of Bangladesh (CRAB) Md Kamaruzzaman Khan, General Secretary Sirajul Islam, and former Organising Secretary Bakul Ahmed were present.
Death of domestic help: DS executive editor, wife put on 4-day remand
A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed the Daily Star executive editor Syed Ashfaqul Haque and his wife Tania Khandaker on a four-day remand each in a case over the death of a domestic worker after falling from their flat on the eighth floor of a building in the city's Mohammadpur.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saifur Rahman passed the order when Nazmul Hasan, in-charge of Mohammadpur police station and also the investigating officer of the case, produced them before the court with a 10-day demand prayer.
Advocate Chaitanno Chandra Haldar filed a petition seeking bail for his clients.
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On February 7, the court sent Ashfaqul and his wife Tania to jail after rejecting their remand and bail petitions.
The court asked police to interrogate them in jail gate for three days.
Lukesh Urang, father of victim Preeti Urang, 15, filed a case against Ashfaqul and Tania under section 304 (ka).
Preeti Urang, daughter of tea worker of Moulvibazar district Lokesh Urang, used to work as a domestic help at the flat of Ashfaqul in the capital’s Mohammadpur and she died falling from the flat on February 6.
Preeti had been working at the house of Ashfaqul for two years.
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Meanwhile, the Human Rights Forum Bangladesh (HRPB), a human rights body, has expressed deep concern and demand fair probe into the death of Preeti.
Besides, Naripakkho, a women rights organization, demanded a fair probe into the death of Priti and punishment of those involved in the death.
It also urged the government to take steps so that the culprits do not get acquittal using power and effective steps to stop recurrence of such incident.
Tea workers on Sunday demanded a fair investigation into the death of Priti Urang.
During a programme, Priti's parents told the gathering that Priti went to work at the Daily Star executive editor Ashfaqul Haque's house through Moulvibazar district correspondent representative of the newspaper Mintu Deshwara.
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From the beginning, they lost touch with her. In two years, they could not meet her even once.
“On the day of Priti's death, Mintu Deshwara asked us to come to Srimangal," said Lokesh, the father. "When Srimangal came, he said Priti was seriously ill and was taken to Dhaka. After going there, we were directly taken to the police station and heard the news of the girl's death. I came home with the dead body of the girl from the police station.”
"We don't even know whether our case has been registered at the police station. We just want justice for our daughter's murder," he said.
Father gets custody of one Japan-born daughter, mother another
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday ordered that one of two Japan–born daughters will stay with father Bangladesh-born US citizen Imran Sharif and another with Japanese mother Nakano Eriko.
Of them, the elder daughter will stay with her mother while the younger one with her father.
The single bench of HC judge Justice Mamnoon Rahman passed the order after accepting a review appeal in this regard.
Senior lawyer Barrister Akthtar Imam, Rashna Imam and Advocate Nasima Akter Lovely stood for engineer Sharif in the court while Barrister Azmalul Hossain accompanied by Advocate Mohammad Shishir Monir represented the Japanese physician mother.
Lawyer Shishir Monir told reporters that the parents will have access to meet their children.
Earlier on January 29 last year, a Dhaka family court in a verdict ordered that the daughters will stay with their mother.
Durdana Rahman, judge of Dhaka's Second Additional Assistant Judge and Family Court passed the order.
Later, father Sharif submitted a petition with Dhaka District and Sessions Judge Court challenging the family court order.
On July 16 of the same year, when the District and Session Judge court rejected the father’s appeal seeking his druthers’ custody he submitted another petition with the HC.
The HC passed the order today after hearing.
After 12 years of marriage, on January 18, 2020, Eriko, a physician, appealed for divorce from Engineer Imran Sharif over marital dispute.
On January 28, 2021 she also filed a case with a Tokyo family court for custody of their three children.
But on February 21, Imran returned to Bangladesh with the first two dauthers from Japan. Meanwhile a Japanese court passed a verdict for keeping the children under their mother’s custody.
On August 19, 2021 - days after coming to Bangladesh - Eriko filed a writ petition with the HC seeking custody of the girls.
On November 21, 2021 the HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman ruled that the Japan-born daughters of Imran and Eriko would stay with their father.
However, the mother could exclusively meet the daughters three times a year for 10 days at a time and Imran, the father, will bear her travel and accommodation expenses, said the court.
On February 13, 2022, the Appellate Division ordered that the custody of the two girls will be decided by the family court and until then the two children will remain with their mother.
Eriko tried to leave Dhaka with her two daughters on December 23.
She was turned away by the police from the airport after she tried to take the children in defiance of the court order.
HC summons Madaripur magistrate for asking accused to appear in court despite stay
The High Court on Monday summoned a Madaripur magistrate who ordered the accused in a dowry case to appear in court despite a stay on the judicial proceedings by an order of the High Court.
The High Court bench of Justice Md Habibul Gani and Justice Ahmed Sohel asked Madaripur Senior Judicial Magistrate KM Alamgir Hossain to appear before the court on March 10 and present his statement in this regard.
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Deputy Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman Monir said that the High Court suspended the proceedings of a case under section 3 of the Dowry Act for six months on September 4, i.e. till March 3.
Senior Judicial Magistrate KM Alamgir Hossain, however, ordered the accused to appear on September 14 last year even after the case proceedings were suspended in the High Court.
The accused pleaded to the High Court against the order.
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Fugitive convict arrested from Savar after 22 years
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a fugitive convict from Savar after 22 years in a case filed over killing an Ansar member in Dhaka's Mohammadpur area in 2002 on Sunday.
The arrestee was identified as Sukkur Ali alias Sohel alias Sohag.
RAB director (legal and media wing) Commander Khandaker Al Moin disclosed this to the media at a press conference at the RAB media centre at Karwan Bazar in the capital on Monday.
Tipped off, a team of RAB-10, conducted a drive in the area and arrested him.
According to RAB, on March 12, 2002, an Ansar member named Fazlul Haq was shot dead and a policeman was seriously injured in the capital's Mohammadpur area.
Later, when they were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, doctors declared Ansar member Fazlul Haque dead.
Following the incident, police constable Akman Hossain filed a murder case in the name of three people at Mohammadpur police station
In 2019, the court served capital punishment to three people in the case.
In the same case, the court awarded Sukkur Ali life imprisonment and fined Tk 10,000. Since then, he has been on the run.
There are more than 15 cases against the arrestee in different police stations of the country, Khandaker Al Moin added.
Jubo League leader murdered in Jashore’s Abhaynagar
A local Jubo League (JL) leader was hacked to death by miscreants in Abhaynagar upazila of Jashore last night, according to police.
Deceased Murad Hossain, 36, was general secretary of ward 4 unit (under Abhaynagar municipality) of Awami League’s youth front.
Confirming the matter, Abhaynagar police station Officer-in-Charge (SM) Atikul Islam said miscreants equipped with locally-made sharp weapons swopped on Murad on his way home from a local market around 10:30 pm, leaving him critically injured.
Hearing his screams, locals rushed to him and first took him to the Upazila Health Complex. He succumbed to his injuries while he was being moved to Khulna Medical College Hospital, the OC said, adding that the body was kept at the hospital morgue for autopsy.
No case was filed and no one was detained in this connection till Monday morning, the OC said.
Efforts are underway to nab the perpetrators through identification, police officer Atikul added.
BGB detains female 'international smuggler' with 2kg gold
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained a suspected international smuggler with around two kilograms of gold worth over Tk 1.89 crore, at a checkpost in Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar Saturday.
The detainee is Ulaying Rakhaine, 39. Details about her could not be known.
According to a media release, signed by Lt. Col Syed Wahiduzzaman Tanjid, commandant of the BGB-30 battalion in Ramu, the border force conducted a drive in Morichha joint checkpost in Ramu upazila around 3pm after being tipped-off that an international gang would smuggle a consignment of gold to Bangladesh from Myanmar through border.
As the woman arrived at the checkpost, the BGB personnel challenged her and found 24 gold bars and ornaments weighing 1.994 Kg, it reads.
The market price of the seized gold is estimated around Tk 1 crore, 89 lakh and 21, 480, the release said.
The detainee was handed over to Ramu police station and the seized gold was deposited to the exchequer, it added.