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Sheikh Hasina, Nowfel, 32 others sued in murder case

A total of 34 people, including Sheikh Hasina and Nowfel, have been named as accused, while there are 40 to 50 anonymous accused.

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Sheikh Hasina, Nowfel, 32 others sued in murder case
Staff CorrespondentChattogram
Published: 17 Aug 2024, 18: 49

Sheikh Hasina and Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury Nowfel Collage

Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former education minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury Nowfel, and 32 others have been accused in a case filed over the death of college student Tanvir Siddiqui in the Bahaddarhat area of Chattogram.

The case was filed by Mohammad Parvej, the victim's uncle, at Chandgaon police station on Friday night.

A total of 34 people, including Sheikh Hasina and Nowfel, have been named as accused, while an additional 40 to 50 individuals have been accused anonymously, according to Jahidul Kabir, officer-in-charge (OC) of the police station.

Among the other accused are Mashiur Rahman Chowdhury, the forest and environment affairs secretary of the Chattogram Awami League; Esrarul Haque, ward councillor at Chandgaon; Shaibal Das, ward councillor at Jamalkhan; Nur Mustafa, ward councillor at Chawkbazar; and Nurul Azim Rony, former general secretary of the Chattogram Chhatra League.

According to the case statement, Tanvir Siddiqui, along with other students, were peacefully protesting on the street in front of the Bahaddarhat kitchen market during the shutdown programme of the Students Against Discrimination on 18 July.

At around 4:30 pm, a group of people, armed with machetes and firearms, arrived from the Wapda office area and attacked the student protesters, as per orders from the former prime minister and the education minister. They threw brick-chips and opened fire indiscriminately at the protesters.

During the attack, Tanvir Siddiqui and several others sustained bullet wounds and fell to the ground. He was taken to Chittagong Medical College Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.

OC Jahidul Kabir told Prothom Alo that the murder case is being processed for investigation.

During the shutdown programme, there were extensive clashes between the student protesters, the police, and members of the Awami League in the Bahaddarhat area on 18 July. At least two people were reported to have died in the clashes.​

 

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Hasina, Natore Ex MP Shimul sued for murder of student

Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former Natore lawmaker Shafiqul Islam Shimul and 109 others have been sued for the murder of schoolboy Yasin Islam in the district during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement on August 5

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Hasina, Natore Ex MP Shimul sued for murder of student

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Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former Natore lawmaker Shafiqul Islam Shimul and 109 others have been sued for the murder of schoolboy Yasin Islam in the district during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement on August 5.

Victim Yasin Islam's father Fajer Ali Ezahar filed the case with Natore Sadar Police Station, said Md Mizanur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Natore Sadar Police Station.

Sirajul Islam, president of Natore district unit AL, and Md Shariful Islam Romzan, general secretary of Natore district unit AL were also among the 111 accused, reports our Natore correspondent.

In the case statement, Fajer said his son Yasin joined the anti-discrimination student movement in Natore.

On the morning of August 4, when Yasin along with others were protesting in the madrasa moor area of Natore town, former MP Shimul and his followers assaulted Yasin.

Later, they picked him up and confined him in a room of Shimul's house in Kandivita.

On August 5, when Shimul heard the news that Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country, he set fire to his own house. Yasin was burnt to death, added the case statement.​

 

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5 more murder cases filed against ousted Bangladesh PM Hasina

Five more murder cases were filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Rajshahi, Rangpur, and Joypurhat between Saturday night and...

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5 more murder cases filed against ousted Bangladesh PM Hasina
Staff Correspondent 18 August, 2024, 23:48

Sheikh Hasina.

Five more murder cases were filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Rajshahi, Rangpur, and Joypurhat between Saturday night and Sunday evening.

With this, 11 murder cases and an abduction case have been filed against Hasina and her aides at different police stations across the country.

In addition to that, two complaints were filed with the International Crimes Tribunal over mass killings against Hasina, who resigned amid a student-led mass uprising and fled to India on August 5.

A case was filed on Sunday against the ousted prime minister and 12 others over the murder of two students in the capital’s Sutrapur area during the recent student protests led by the platform Student Movement Against Discrimination.

The 12 other accused are former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, Dhaka south city mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former foreign minister Hasan Mahmud, former education Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel, former state minister for posts, telecommunications, and information technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak, former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, former Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch chief Harun Or Rashid, DMP joint commissioner Biplob Kumar, and former DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman.

Another 200-250 unnamed people, including leaders and activists of the Awami League and its front organisations, were made accused in the case.

One Nasrin Begum filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Torikul Islam over the killing of Kobi Nazrul Govt College student Ikram Hossain Kawser and Shaheed Suhrawardi College student Omar Faruk.

The two students were allegedly gunned down in separate incidents by police, Awami League leaders, and activists as they were staging protests along with hundreds of others in front of Kobi Nazrul Govt College and Shaheed Suhrawardi College on July 19.

A fresh case was filed on Sunday against Hasina and 111 others on charge of killing a schoolboy on August 5, New Age staff correspondent in Rajshahi reported.

Fazer Ali, the father of Yasin Islam, who was burned to death inside Natore-2 constituency former lawmaker Shahfiqul Islam Shimul’s residence on August 5, filed the case with the Natore Sadar police station.

Beside Hasina, Shimul, Natore district AL president Sirajul Islam, general secretary Shariful Islam Ramzan, joint general secretary Golam Mortuza Bablu, organising secretary Malek Sheikh, Natore municipal AL president Syed Mostak Ali, general secretary Habibur Rahman, and Natore municipality mayor Uma Chowdhury were named as accused in the case.

According to the case statement, under the instruction of Sheikh Hasina, lawmaker Shimul and his men detained Yasin, 17, from a peaceful protest of the Student Movement Against Discrimination on August 04.

A case was filed on Sunday with a Rangpur court against the ousted PM Hasina on charge of killing Abdullah Al-Tahir, a student of the Bangladesh Institute of Glass and Ceramics.

Tahir’s father, Abdur Rhaman, filed the case with the Rangpur Metropolitan Kotwali Cognisance Court.

A total of 40 individuals, including former ministers and members of the units of Rangpur district and city Awami League, Swechchhasebak League, Juba League, and Chhatra League, were named as accused, along with 300 unidentified persons.

The accused include AL general secretary Obaidul Quader, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former law minister Anisul Huq, former foreign minister Hasan Mahmud, and former textile and jute minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak.

A murder case has been filed against the former prime minister, Obaidul Quader, and 126 others over the killing of a student in Joypurhat during the student movement.

The student, Nazibul Sorkar, also known as Bishal, was a student at Panchbibi Business Management Institute. Nazibul was shot dead as law enforcers opened fire at him during the student protests in Joypurhat on August 4.

Nazibul’s father, Majidul Sorkar, filed the case before the court of senior judicial magistrate Atikur Rahman in Joypurhat.

The court has directed the officer-in-charge of Joypurhat Sadar police station to register the case as an FIR, as confirmed by the plaintiff’s lawyer, Abdul Momin Fakir.

The list of accused includes Sheikh Hasina, Obaidul Quader, along with the former whip, two Joypurhat lawmakers of the dissolved parliament, top leaders of the district Awami League, and other public representatives, the lawyer added.

On Saturday night, a case was filed against AL president Sheikh Hasina, its general secretary Obaidul Quader, former local lawmaker Shamim Osman, and 45 others on charge of killing a youth during the August 5 clash in Narayanganj.

Victim Abul Hasan’s elder brother Abul Bashar lodged the case with Narayanganj Sadar Model Police Station on Saturday night, said officer-in-charge Abdus Sattar.

Abul Hasan, a 20-year-old sales representative of a soft drink company, hails from the Kushiyara area in Bandar upazila of the district.

Apart from Hasina, some cases were also lodged against AL leaders and activists across the country.

Seventeen people, including former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, were in a case filed with a Rangpur court over the killing of Begum Rokeya University student Abu Sayeed on Sunday.

Abu Sayeed’s elder brother, Ramjan Ali, filed a petition around 11:30am with a Rangpur court to register a case in connection with the killing in police fire during the quota reform movement on July 16.

Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Raju Ahmed passed the order to the Tajhat police station to record the case.

The accused in the case include former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, Rangpur range deputy inspector general of police Abdul Baten, Rangpur Metropolitan Police commissioner Md Moniruzzaman, deputy police commissioner Abu Maruf Hossain, assistant commissioner Imaran Hossain, Tajhat police station officer-in-charge Rabiul Islam, assistant sub-inspector Syed Amir Ali, and constable Sujon Chandra Ray.

Another case was filed on Sunday against 82 leaders and activists of the Awami League on charge of attacking a man on August 5.

Abdul Matin, 32, a villager of Khapur village, filed the case with Bagmara police station against 22 named and 50 to 60 unnamed people, said Arobindo Sarker, officer-in-charge of the police station.

In the case, former Rajshahi-4 lawmaker and Bagmara upazila Awami Legaue general secretary Abul Kalam Azad, his wife and Taherpur municipality mayor Khandakar Shaila Pervin, and Bagmara upazila parishad chairman Jakirul Islam, among others, were made accused.

Earlier, seven cases were filed against Hasina and her aides in Chittagong, Bogura, and Dhaka between August 13 and August 17.

Besides, two cases were filed over mass killings against Hasina with the investigation agency of the ICT on August 14 and August 15, accusing her, her cabinet members, Awami League leaders, and top police officers of mass killings and crimes against humanity during the student-led mass uprising between July 15 and August 5.​

 

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Hasina, 33 others sued for ‘mass killing’ at Hefazat rally

A case was filed on Sunday against Sheikh Hasina and 33 others on charges of mass-killing at the rally of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh in Motijheel Shapla Chattar area on...

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Hasina, 33 others sued for ‘mass killing’ at Hefazat rally
Staff Correspondent 18 August, 2024, 17:07

Sheikh Hasina. | File photo.

A case was filed on Sunday against Sheikh Hasina and 33 others on charges of mass-killing at the rally of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh in Motijheel Shapla Chattar area on May 5, 2013.

Bangladesh Peoples Party chairman Babul Sardar Chakhari filed the case with Dhaka chief Metropolitan Magistrate court.

Metropolitan Magistrate Zaki-al Farabi accepted the case and directed the officer-in-charge of Motijheel police station to investigate the matter and submit a report to the court.

The other accused include former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former prime minister’s adviser Salman F Rahman, former PM’s defense adviser Tarique Ahmed Siddiqui, former Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Fazle Noor Taposh, former lawmakers Rashed Khan Menon and Hasanul Haque Inu, Awami League joint secretary general Mahbubul Alam Hanif, former Textiles minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak, former Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed and IGP Hasan Mahabub Khandkar, former RAB chief AKM Shahidul Haque, former NSI chief Ziaul Ahsan, former police DC of Motijheel Division Biplab Kumar Sarker, former Motijheel Police Station OC Omar Faruk, former ward councilor Munsur Ahmed, the then Motijheel Chhatra League president Mahabubul Haque Hiron, Awami League leader Mumtaz Parveen, former Motijheel OC Farman Ali, National People’s Party chairman Salahuddin Salu, former Motijheel DC Nazmul Alam, retired Director of Hamdard Group Major Iqbal.

According to the case statement, the leaders and activists of Hefazat-e Islam Bangladesh gathered at the Motijheel Shapla Chattar on May 5, 2013, to press 13-point demand, protesting at the defamation of Islam and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by some bloggers.

Within the next 24 hour from 11:00pm on the day, the police and army members, in connivance with the accused, massacred the rally, it said.

They also took away the bodies in some city-corporation vehicles and buried them secretly at unknown locations, said the statement.

It also mentioned that during the massacre, many madrassah students were murdered and abducted.

When victims’ parents went to the police stations to file cases or General Diary, the authorities did not take any case in this regard.

On the fateful night, government forces swooped on thousands of members of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, the Qawmi madrassah-based organisation, at Shapla Chattar.

Hefazat demanded stronger Islamic policies, including stringent punishment for ‘atheist bloggers.’​

 

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Ex-minister, MPs under ACC net

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday started several inquiries against the Awami League’s former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, former finance minister...

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Ex-minister, MPs under ACC net
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Asaduzzaman Mia (left) and Harun Or Rashid. | Collected photo.

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday started several inquiries against the Awami League’s former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, former finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal’s family members, and three other lawmakers on charges of corruption.

The commission also started inquiries against former Dhaka metropolitan police commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia and DMP’s former Detective Branch chief Harun Or Rashid over amassing illegal wealth.

The decisions were taken at a meeting of the commission led by ACC chairman Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah at its Segun Bagicha headquarters in Dhaka.

The ACC move came two weeks after the fall of the Awami League government, with long-time prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigning and fleeing to India amid a student-led mass uprising.

ACC decided to conduct an inquiry against former DMP commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia over allegations of amassing illegal wealth, including multiple flats, plots, houses, and land.

The commission also opened an inquiry against the former chief of Dhaka’s Detective Branch of police Harun-or-Rashid, following the recommendations of the ACC’s intelligence report.

There are allegations against Harun of abusing power, money laundering, and amassing illegal wealth worth crores of taka through various irregularities and corruption, said ACC secretary Khorsheda Yasmeen.

The commission also decided to run an inquiry against former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed over allegations of laundering money in the United Kingdom and amassing illegal wealth.

Javed and his wife have joint ownership of six companies abroad that include real estate businesses, and the property is valued at Tk 2,000 crore.

Apart from this, the ACC initiated an inquiry against former finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal’s wife Kashmeri Kamal, their daughter Nafisa Kamal, and four other lawmakers over embezzling Tk 20,000 crore through sending workers to Malaysia under a syndicate.

ACC formed a three-member inquiry committee headed by its deputy director, Md Nurul Huda, to carry out probes against them.

The other three members of the syndicate are former lawmakers Lt Gen (retd) Masud Uddin Chowdhury, Nizam Uddin Hazari, and Benazir Ahmed.

ACC secretary Khorsheda Yasmeen said that the syndicate was accused of embezzling Tk 20,000 crores beyond the government-fixed fees for sending workers to Malaysia.

She said over a period of one and a half years, around 450,000 workers were sent through the recruiting agencies owned by the syndicate.

The total trade during this period was estimated at Tk 24,000 crores, with Tk 20,000 crores embezzled as extra charges, said the ACC secretary.

ACC officials said that high-ranking officials from both the Bangladeshi and Malaysian governments were also suspected of being involved in the scam.

The cost per person set by the government to send workers to Malaysia was Tk 79,000, but an average Bangladeshi worker spent Tk 5,44,000 to go to Malaysia.

According to the allegations, former AL lawmaker Nizam Uddin Hazari of Feni-2 got a licence from the recruiting agency ‘Snigdha Overseas Limited’ in December 2018 to send workers abroad.

The agency sent only 100 workers abroad in three and a half years after getting the licence, but after joining the ‘Malaysia syndicate’, the agency sent 8,000 workers in the past one and a half years to Malaysia, and the agency ranked number 4 in the list of agencies that send most workers to Malaysia.

Former Jatiya Party lawmaker Masududdin Chowdhury of Feni-3 established a recruiting agency, Five M International, in 2015. It is now at the top of the list of sending workers to Malaysia. Since its inception, the agency has sent around 2,500 people to the Middle East. But it alone has taken the clearance of 8,592 workers after involving the syndicate.

A former lawmaker of Dhaka-20 Benazir Ahmed’s company, Ahmed International, has the fifth position in terms of sending workers to Malaysia. Before the opening of the labour market in Malaysia, they sent only 238 workers abroad, but upon entering the syndicate, it ranked in the top list by sending 7,849 workers to Malaysia.

Benazir was president of the Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies when the syndicate formed to send workers to Malaysia, said ACC officials.

A total of 9,861 people were sent to Malaysia under Orbitals Enterprise and Orbitals International, owned by Kashmiri Kamal, wife of former finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, and his daughter Nafisa Kamal when Kamal was in charge of the finance ministry.​

 

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Ex-CJ Khairul faces complaint over alleged fraud in passing judgement

A complaint has been lodged against the former chief justice and recently resigned Law Commission chairman ABM Khairul Haque for his alleged engagement in fraud to alter the judgment. Md Mujahidul Islam, a lawyer of Bangladesh Supreme Court, filed the complaint in the capital’s Shahbagh Poli

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Ex-CJ Khairul faces complaint over alleged fraud in passing judgement
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Aug 19, 2024 01:19
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Aug 19, 2024 01:24

A complaint has been lodged against the former chief justice and recently resigned Law Commission chairman ABM Khairul Haque for his alleged engagement in fraud to alter the judgment.

Md Mujahidul Islam, a lawyer of Bangladesh Supreme Court, filed the complaint in the capital’s Shahbagh Police Station on Sunday afternoon.

However, it has not yet been registered as a case since there is no OC in the police station, said Elis Mahmud, sub-inspector (SI) of the police station.

According to the sources of the police station, Justice Khairul Haque illegally ruled for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to stay in power.

It is said that the lawyer’s complaint will be converted into a case very soon.​

 

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BFIU asks banks to freeze accounts of ex-DB chief Harun, his wife

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has instructed all commercial banks to freeze the accounts of the Additional Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Harunor Rashid and his wife Shireen Akter. The BFIU issued the order on Tuesday after getting reports regarding suspicious

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BFIU asks banks to freeze accounts of ex-DB chief Harun, his wife
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Aug 18, 2024 18:21
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Aug 18, 2024 18:56

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has instructed all commercial banks to freeze the accounts of the Additional Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Harunor Rashid and his wife Shireen Akter.

The BFIU issued the order on Tuesday after getting reports regarding suspicious transactions through their accounts.

In a letter, the BFIU asked the banks to block all types of withdrawals through all sorts of accounts of the former Detective Branch (DB) of Police Chief Harun and his wife.

The much-discussed police officer was recently transferred from the DB to the DMP’s crime and operations unit.​

 

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ভারতে পালিয়ে যাওয়ার সময় আটক দুই আওয়ামী নেতা

চুয়াডাঙ্গার দর্শনা সীমান্ত দিয়ে ভারতে পালিয়ে যাওয়ার সময় আওয়ামী প্রজন্ম লীগের দুই নেতাকে আটক করেছে বর্ডার গার্ড বাংলাদেশ (বিজিবি)। রবিবার (১৮ আগস্ট) দুপুর সাড়ে ১২ টার দিকে তাদের আটক করা হয়। আটকরা হলেন রাজশাহী বাগমারা থানার খাজুরা গ্রামের মনির হকের ছেলে ফজলুল হক (৩৭) ও কুষ্টিয়া জেলার ভেড়ামারা

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ভারতে পালিয়ে যাওয়ার সময় আটক দুই আওয়ামী নেতা
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Aug 19, 2024 00:01
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Aug 19, 2024 00:01

চুয়াডাঙ্গার দর্শনা সীমান্ত দিয়ে ভারতে পালিয়ে যাওয়ার সময় আওয়ামী প্রজন্ম লীগের দুই নেতাকে আটক করেছে বর্ডার গার্ড বাংলাদেশ (বিজিবি)।

রবিবার (১৮ আগস্ট) দুপুর সাড়ে ১২ টার দিকে তাদের আটক করা হয়।

আটকরা হলেন রাজশাহী বাগমারা থানার খাজুরা গ্রামের মনির হকের ছেলে ফজলুল হক (৩৭) ও কুষ্টিয়া জেলার ভেড়ামারা থানার কাজিহাটা গ্রামের আশরাফুল আহমেদের ছেলে বুলবুল আহমেদ (৪০)।

তাদের কাছ থেকে এ সময় একটি ল্যাপটপ, বেশ কিছু সিল, দলীয় প্যাড, সার্টিফিকেট উদ্ধার করা হয়।

বিজিবি দর্শনা আইসিপির ইনচার্জ নায়েক সুবেদার মোস্তফা জানান, দর্শনা সীমান্তের ৭৬ নম্বর মেইল পিলারের পাশ দিয়ে অবৈধভাবে ভারতে পালিয়ে যাচ্ছিল এ দু'জন। এ সময় বিজিবির টহলদলের কাছে তারা ধরা পড়ে।

তাদেরকে দর্শনা থানায় হস্তান্তর করা হয়েছে। এ ব্যাপারে একটি মামলা হয়েছে বলেও জানান তিনি।​