Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Criminals killed three people including a union parishad (UP) chairman at Char Balua under Companiganj upazila in Noakhali yesterday morning.The dead are Khairul Alam, 65, chairman of Urirchar Union Parishad under Swandip upazila, and his two nephews Mohabbat Ali, 28, and Nizam Majhi, 35.A gang of around 25 armed people led by Javed slaughtered the three when they went to their relative's house at Char Balua, said Maksud Alam Khoka, son of the slain UP chairman.Javed is the younger brother of Harish, chief of a pirate gang killed in 2006 by a group of criminals.Amzad Hossain, officer in-charge of Companiganj ...
(read more) Saturday, February 17th, 2007Around 4,000 prisoners, who were arrested on charges of 'petty crimes', are going to be released, as the government recently decided to free them gradually in a bid to lessen the load on the crammed jails, prison sources said.The caretaker government (CG) on Wednesday decided to review the cases of those detained on suspicion and charges of petty crimes and to release them gradually through legal process.Following the decision of the advisory committee on law and order, prison authorities on Thursday instructed all the officials concerned in 66 prisons across the country to prepare a list of the inmates who ...
(read more) Thursday, February 15th, 2007The caretaker (CG) government yesterday decided to review the cases of those detained on suspicion and charges of petty crimes and to release them gradually from crammed jails.It directed the law enforcers to arrest the persons behind encroachment on government lands and building of big slums.The advisory committee on law and order once again asked them to hunt professional and big criminals and the corrupts, instead of just going for the accused in different casesThe committee, at its second meeting yesterday, also decided not to allow any political rally, gathering or meeting in any auditorium, community centre or hall taking ...
(read more) Saturday, February 10th, 2007A criminal gang leader was killed in 'crossfire' between police and his cohorts at village Raidanga of Kumarkhali upazila in the district early yesterday.The dead, Abdus Salam 37, hailing from Cheuria in Kumarkhali upazila, was the chief of notorious Salam Bahini.Kumarkhali police arrested Salam from a house of Baradi village at around 6:00am on Thursday, police said, adding that during interrogation at the police station Salam admitted to having firearms hidden in Baradi village and informed about his accomplices.Yesterday night, police started for Baradi village to recover the firearms and arrest Salam's cohorts.When police reached a plot ...
(read more) Friday, February 2nd, 2007Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday called on the people to create a just and knowledge-based society, free from the influence of black money, the corrupt and the criminals."Let us build up a steely unity like those of '52 and '71, let us work together," he said at the opening ceremony of the month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2007 at Bangla Academy yesterday while addressing his audience of advisers, diplomats, Bangla Academy life-members and fellows and litterateurs.He also inaugurated a sculpture titled, "Moder Gorob," in memory of the Language Movement martyrs. "Ekushey teaches us to resist repression, deprivation and inequality," ...
(read more) Monday, January 22nd, 2007Three people including a BNP leader and an activist of its youth wing Jubo Dal died in the army custody hours after they were picked up in Chittagong, Barisal and Tangail. Meanwhile, two more people died as they tried to get away from the army at Shariatpur and Dhaka.Of the three, Abdul Kader Milon, 42, was a former joint secretary of port city BNP and a former ward commissioner, Nayan Kazi, 30, a Jubo Dal activist and an ex-sepoy in Barisal, and Rubel Miah, 18, son of a tea stall owner of Ghatail in Tangail.The two other dead are ...
(read more) Monday, January 22nd, 2007The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday ordered the government to submit an amended Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) by February 1 to advance separation of the judiciary from the executive. It also asked the government to correct some 'erroneous' provisions in the four rules for judicial services by the same date.The seven-member full bench of the Appellate Division with Chief Justice Syed JR Mudassir Husain in the chair yesterday passed the order.The nine government officials, accused of distorting the 12-point SC directive given earlier for the separation, stood with their hands folded and sought the apex court's forgiveness as the proceedings ...
(read more) Saturday, January 20th, 2007The BNP high command has asked the party leaders and workers to take cover to avert arrest in the countrywide anti-crime drive by the army and law enforcers.Party insiders also said the ongoing crackdown on troublemakers has been increasingly worrying for the immediate past ruling party as the troops and police have rounded up a huge number of its leaders and activists across the country.Immediately after the president declared a state of emergency, the party high-ups had alerted all district- and upazila-level leaders to the possibility of the law enforcement agencies and armed forces making a countrywide sweep."We ...
(read more) Thursday, January 18th, 2007The long-awaited separation of the judiciary from the executive now only requires declaration of an ordinance on necessary amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), the gazette notification of which is currently being printed.If the ordinance were put into effect, the judiciary would be separated from the executive and the magistrates, who are currently under the control of the executive, will then come under the authority of the higher court and be known as judicial magistrates.When contacted for comments on the promulgation of the ordinance, Law Secretary Alauddin Sarder, however, was not willing to make any.Additional Attorney-General Abdur Rezzak Khan ...
(read more) Tuesday, January 16th, 2007Army personnel arrested two Awami League-backed ward commissioners of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) and another BNP-backed union parishad chairman in the district yesterday. The arrestees are Mohammad Hossain Hiron, CCC commissioner of Pahartali ward, Jahar Lal Hazari, commissioner of Anderkilla ward, and Delwar Hossain Delu, chairman of Korerhat union parishad of Mirersarai upazila in Chittagong.Sources said the troops arrested Hiron, who is accused in a number of criminal cases, at his Ambagan home in Pahartali around 12:15pm yesterday. Hazari was arrested around 12:30am yesterday at his Hazarigoli home.During another raid, the army personnel captured Korerhat Union Parishad Chairman Delu, ...
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