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Azhar, 161 other Jamaat leaders indicted
Dhaka, Jan 25 (bdnews24.com)—A speedy trial tribunal on Wednesday indicted 161 Jamaat-e-Islami activists, including the party’s acting secretary general A T M Azharul Islam, in a case filed over the Sep 19 vandalism and arson in Dhaka’s Paltan.
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Azhar, 161 other Jamaat leaders indicted
Dhaka, Jan 25 (bdnews24.com)—A speedy trial tribunal on Wednesday indicted 161 Jamaat-e-Islami activists, including the party’s acting secretary general A T M Azharul Islam, in a case filed over the Sep 19 vandalism and arson in Dhaka’s Paltan.
Extrajudicial killings down: Mizanur
Magura, Dec 31 (bdnews24.com) – The chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said that the number of extrajudicial killings by law enforcers has come down in the country.
“We want to see the officials deputed in the law enforcement agencies as our friends,” Mizanur Rahman said on Saturday addressing a discussion of the lawyers’ association at Magura District Judge’s Court premises.
Mizanur urged law enforcers to be sincere so that the rights of the people are not breached due to their actions.
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Khoka detained after clash with police
Dhaka, Dec 4 (bdnews24.com)—A senior DMP official has claimed that former Dhaka mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who was detained in old Dhaka’s court area, has not been arrested.
“He was taken into police custody for his own safety,” assistant deputy commissioner of Lalbagh zone Mohammad Kamruzzaman told bdnews24.com on Sunday.
Khoka, also a vice-president of BNP, was detained after he allegedly led party supporters in a clash with the law enforcers in a pro-shutdown procession.
Police detained the former mayor around 12.15am from the court building, where he took shelter during the clash, he added.
20 hurt as DCC staff, cops clash in city
Dhaka, Nov 27: Employees of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) clashed with the police on Sunday when the law enforcers attempted to foil their protest rally against splitting of the DCC into two parts.
Forkan missing after alleging ‘RAB torture’
Dhaka, Nov 21 (bdnews24.com)—A youth from Jhalakathi’s Indrapasha has been missing for one and a half years, since after he had narrated to journalists tortures he had allegedly faced in the custody of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
The family has no clues about the whereabouts of Mohammad Forkan but suspects that the elite crime-busting unit might have a hand behind the disappearance of the 26-year-old who used to hawk on footpaths.
The law enforcers, however, have categorically denied involvement.
No govt role in Khokon’s arrest: Shahara
Dhaka, Nov 7 (bdnews24.com) — The government did not influence law enforcers to arrest BNP’s Narsingdi unit chief Khairul Kabir Khokon following the murder of city mayor Lokman Hossain, the home minister has said.
“The government is being blamed wrongly. Who will be arrested and who will be not, it’s up to the investigation officers,” Shahara Khatun told reporters at her office on Wednesday.
She, however, said the government did direct the law enforcers to initiate action.
“The people responsible for the incident will not be spared, no matter which party they belong to,” she added.
‘Push just one button … and it’s done!’
Narayanganj, Oct 30 (bdnews24.com) — Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) election voters are overwhelmed by the ease with which the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) allows them to cast their votes.
One of the centres with EVM is Gobinda Primary School in Ward 17 of the newly-formed city corporation. More than 400 voters were seen queued up in front of the centre since early morning on Sunday.
“Voting was delayed by four to five minutes to test the EVM in presence of the polling agents. But everything is happening peacefully,” centre’s presiding officer Sirajul Islam told bdnews24.com.
5 Teletalk officials rescued from jungle
Law enforcers rescued five Teletalk officials from a jungle in Panchhari Upazila in Khagrachhari on Monday six hours after their abduction.
The officials included junior officer Ahsan Hossain Tapu, Engineer Rajot Barua, Sales Representative Azizul Hoq, Nur Hossain Ridoy and Dealer Tareq Hossain Chowdhury.
Abu Kalam Siddique, superintendent of police in Khagrachhari, said a gang of criminals at around 11:00am abducted the officials by stopping their car on their way to Panchhari to set a network tower.
He said the miscreants belong to the United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF), a group of indigenous people protesting against the Chittagong Hill Tracts peace treaty.
30 hurt, 5 held during hartal in N’ganj
Narayanganj: At least 30 people, including 10 policemen, were injured in a clash between pro-hartal activists and law enforcers in Fatulla of the district on the first day of 30-hour hartal on Sunday called by the alliance of 12 religion-based political parties.
The clash ensued when police obstructed a procession brought out by the hartal supporters in the area.
Nearly 50 held on last day of hartal
Dhaka, July 7 (bdnews24.com) — The second day of the 48-hour general strike called by BNP and its allies has ended with sporadic clashes between law enforcers and pro-hartal activists.
Over 50 opposition activists were arrested on Wednesday across the country.
According to reports, police arrested 20 hartal supporters in Rajshahi, eight in Sylhet, two in Chittagong, two in Khulna, seven in Noakhali, five in Bogra, two in Barguna and two in Satkhira.
Around 30 vehicles were reportedly vandalised in Barisal.
Pickets torched two buses in Gazipur and one in Dhaka.
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BNP lawmakers stage sit-in
BNP lawmakers staged a sit-in at the east site of the parliament on Thursday demanding arrest and exemplary punishment of the policemen responsible for the attack on Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque.
Meanwhile, police arrested a youth when he was trying to set a bus ablaze at Mirpur early Thursday, the second day of the 48-hour countrywide hartal called by BNP-led four-party alliance.
A total of 17 lawmakers including BNP joint secretary general Mahbubuddin Khokon started the sit-in programme at about 9:30am, which continued for one and a half hours.
Clashes, picketing, arrests mark first day of hartal
FE Report
Dozens of people, including the opposition chief whip, were injured Wednesday, on the first day of the 48-hour nationwide hartal called by the BNP-Jamaat alliance that brought most of the country to a standstill.
Nearly 10,000 law-enforcers were deployed in the city to maintain law and order following pre-strike violence Tuesday, when picketers torched and damaged a number of vehicles causing immense sufferings to the commuters.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said they detained 45 protestors for their involvement in creating anarchy in the capital. Ten mobile teams sentenced 12 people to various jail terms for holding unlawful protests and damaging vehicles.
Hartal ends, 40 picked up
Law enforcers picked up at least 40 people Sunday when they took out to the street to enforce a half-day hartal in the capital that ended in the noon.
Pickets vandalised three vehicles – a private car, a taxicab and a CNG-run three-wheeler – at TSC area of Dhaka University.
Our correspondents covering the protest reported from different parts of the capital that number of private cars is thin, though other vehicles are plying on the city streets as usual.
National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports enforced the hartal to protest the government’s signing of a production sharing contract with an American oil company.
Three die in Bijoynagar fire incident
FE Report
Three people met tragic end of their lives in a devastating fire that broke out at a multi-storied building in capital’s Bijoynagar area Saturday morning, firefighters said.
The deceased were identified as Minarul (25), Yakub (25) and Rahat (35) — employees of an event management firm — Step Media Limited housed at the sixth floor of the building.
The fire originated at the sixth floor of the 12-storied building at 175, Syed Nazrul Islam Sarani of Bijoynagar from electric short circuit about 5:00am and then spread to the seventh floor, fire assistant director Ajit Kumar Bhoumik said.
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