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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
Being the biggest kitchen and vegetable market in the city with over 5,000 shops, Karwan Bazar has always been a hub of extortion.
Cadres of top criminals such as Sweden Aslam (now detained in jail), Saidul alias "Killer" Saidul, Narottom Saha alias Ashiq, the Sobhan-Selim group and Ali group are active in collecting tolls from the illegal shops in 19 markets in and around Karwan Bazar area.
A section of law enforcers and political leaders allegedly get a handsome amount of share of the extorted money.
Besides, there are criminals who often kidnap businessmen to realise ransom.
Admitting extortion at Karwan Bazar, Dhaka Metropolitan ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Most of the city footbridges and underpasses remain in appalling condition in absence of necessary maintenance and fail to serve its main purpose of ensuring safety of pedestrians.
Besides, unwanted elements such as muggers, pickpockets, drug peddlers, floating sex workers and vagabonds prowl on these structures, creating an unhygienic chaotic atmosphere.
Sources in Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) said there are 51 footbridges in the city while the number of underpass is three. Stairs and walkways of many over bridges and underpasses eroded and became risky to use, pedestrians alleged.
Users complained that the over bridges were not built on the appropriate spots according ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Hundreds of rebels of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) could flee from Pilkhana headquarters almost unobstructed during the 33-hour bloody mutiny as law enforcers and security personnel did not cordon off a vast stretch of areas alongside the boundary, people of nearby areas said.
A large portion of the boundary wall around the BDR headquarters in between BDR gate No 1 and Bay Tannery used by fleeing BDRs as a safe passage remained totally unguarded.
No law enforcers were deployed over the long stretch of one kilometre area along the boundary wall, they said.
As for the other areas alongside the boundary of ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Bangladesh Police introduced a special intelligence branch comprised of only women.
Special Women Police Contingent (SWPC) deals with criminal activities by women, which have been on the rise.
The police department introduced the new branch recently with a view to curbing sex trade, drug peddling, and trafficking of women and children.
According to police sources, women are being used for trafficking other women and children, drug peddling, smuggling, and for swindling people, as crime lords feel safer to employ women for those jobs since traditionally they raise less suspicion.
Sources said to deal with women criminals Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) already set up ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
THE drive from the airport to the Santika Hotel takes about 45 minutes, and, as with all other drives to the heart of a capital city, is a decent introduction to a new country. Jakarta, I could not help but note, certainly seems closer to Dhaka in terms of development and third world chaos than, say, a city like Bangkok.
It is more developed, but has the same slightly dilapidated (sorry) air that Dhaka also has, and despite the stretches of prosperity and a general air of sufficiency, we passed by a number of pretty down-at-heel shanty-towns, clusters of tin-sheet huts ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Excessive cost of finding overseas employments and fraud lead to situations where workers find themselves in debt and enter indentured and slave-like labour, said International Labour Organisation (ILO).
"Most blame this on profit margins of recruitment agents, but it is also due to high transaction costs--passports, work permits, documentation," said ILO Director in Dhaka, Panudda Boonpala, yesterday at the inaugural session of a symposium titled "Deployment of workers overseas: A shared responsibility".
In cases where employers pay agencies recruitment costs in advance, there are complaints of unacceptable salary deductions, while in order to pay back their recruiters, workers often go unpaid for ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Lack of awareness about child rights and existing laws both lead to the violation of rights of children in conflict with the law, starting from their arrest and lasting through their custody and trial.
Children and juveniles are not given rights that ought to be guaranteed to them according to the Children Act 1974, an act that experts say remains back dated compared to the Convention on Rights of the Child, which Bangladesh ratified in 1990.
A glaring example of how police and magistrates lack knowledge about child rights was the arrest of an eight-year-old child by Dakkhinkhan police on April ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Two murderers who sexually abused and killed two schoolboys in the capital's Noyatola area in April, yesterday spoke to the media for the first time about how they committed the gruesome killings while under influence of drugs.
At a news conference held at the Detective Branch (DB) of police in the city, Ronju Sarder and Liton, both in their 30s, described how they killed the two boys while smoking cannabis in an abandoned house in Noyatola.
The two men also said they sexually abused other young boys before.
Ronju Sarder said on the day of the crime, he and Liton were smoking cannabis ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
A 16-year-old girl, raped and burned by a man whom she used to regard as her grandfather, died last night in the capital following her two-month-long struggle with the injuries.
Critically injured Rozina, from Mohimaganj of Gaibandha, was transferred from Gaibandha Sadar Hospital and admitted to Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on January 27 with 30 percent of her lower body severely burned.
She was transferred to the DMCH as her condition deteriorated despite receiving treatment at the Gaibandha Sadar Hospital for over one month.
Her assailant, Majid Talukdar, aged around 45 or 50, ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Human rights organisations yesterday expressed concern saying that the proposed National Human Rights Commission Ordinance 2007 will not ensure transparency and independence of the commission, as it sets many conditions in publishing its reports and its selection committee is too dependent on the executive.
The rights bodies said the definition of human rights in the ordinance is also not comprehensive as it excluded economic, social and cultural rights that are enshrined as key pillars in the constitution of Bangladesh.
Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK), Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) and Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) made the observations at a joint ...
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