20,000 acres of land reclaimed in
Cox’s Bazar since Jan 11
Our Correspondent . Cox’s Bazar
THE army-led joint forces reclaimed about 20,000 acres of forest and government land in Cox’s Bazar from illegal occupation since January 11.
Aminul Islam, deputy commissioner of Cox’s Bazar, said this on Wednesday while exchanging views with community leaders on the activities of local administration and joint forces in the beach town.
Lieutenant Colonel Golam Mowla, commanding officer, DGFI, Lieutenant Colonel DSM Shahid, commander of joint forces, Cox’s Bazar, and Imam Hussein, additional police super, spoke at the function at hilltop circuit house conference room.
The DC said bill boards were removed from the resort town while construction works on wide drainages began from Tuesday in hotel and guesthouse zones. Overall law and order situation of the district improved significantly, he said.
Golam Mowla urged the local journalists to expose the issues of corruption, black money, terrorism and gunrunning.
Shahid said media should highlight the achievements of the present interim government.
Imam Hussein told the meeting that 2,183 absconding criminals were arrested in the district since January 11.
Man to die for killing wife for dowry
Our Correspondent . Rangpur
A COURT in Rangpur on Thursday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife for dowry in 2002.
According to the prosecution, Abdul Hoque of village Silimpur under sadar upazila strangled his wife, Belly Begum, daughter of Hafiz Uddin of the same village, in 2002 as the victim's father failed to pay him dowry.
After examining records and witnesses, Women and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal Court-1 judge AM Mohammad Syed handed down the verdict in a crowded courtroom.
Meanwhile, a UNB report from Satkhira adds: A tribunal in Satkhira on Thursday convicted a man and sentenced him to life-term imprisonment for violating a girl about five years ago.
The court also fined the convict, Tapash Kumar, 21, Tk 10,000, in default, to suffer one year more in jail.
According to the prosecution, Tapash raped the teenage girl at village Gopalpur under Shyamnagar upazila on March 31, 2002. After the incident, victim's relatives had lodged a case with the police. The police also submitted charge sheet against the accused.
Girl rescued, one arrested
Our Correspondent . C’nawabganj
THE police Thursday rescued a girl and arrested a suspected kidnapper in Chapainawabganj.
The girl is Fouzia Hoque, student of Class IX, a resident of the Oxygen Square in Chittagong.
The police said following a family feud Fouzia left her house for her uncle at Shahbagh in the capital where a security guard of the Aziz Cooperatives Market, Ziaur Rahman, took her to his house at Chama of Baroghoria under Chapainawabganj sadar upazila on May 1.
The girl’s uncle, Fazlul Bari, filed a case with the Shabagh police who rescued her from the house of Ziaur and detained him.
BNP leader arrested on graft charge
Our Correspondent . Narail
THE army-led joint forces arrested joint secretary of Narail District BNP Khan Mohammad Kabir Hossain, 38, on charge of corruption in construction from the Court Road area in the district town on Thursday.
Kabir, also a former acting chairman of the Narail municipality, was later handed over to the police. After primary interrogation, the police sent him to jail.
2 suspected JMB men held
Our Correspondent . Rangpur
THE Detective Branch of police on Thursday arrested two suspected Jamaatul Mujahideen activists from the remote char area of the River Teesta under Gangachara upazila in Rangpur.
A police team, tipped off, raided a house at Paikan Mauzar Char of Gangachara at dawn and arrested the two from the cattle shed of the house.
The arrested were identified as Khalequzzaman Lebu, 25, a resident of Saud Para, and Rokonuzzaman Rokon, 30, a resident of New Star Para in the district headquarters.
The police also arrested Mohbubul Hoque, owner of the house, on charge of providing the two with shelter.
The Gangachara police said the suspected JMB activists had been maintaining the organisational network for four months.
They were being interrogated at the Gangachara police station till Thursday evening.
One killed, 3 hurt over land dispute
United News of Bangladesh . Sunamganj
A MAN was killed and three were injured in a clash at village Filegaon under Jagannathpur upazila in Sunamganj on Thursday.
The deceased was Chandan Miah, 35, inhabitant of the area.
According to locals, there was a longstanding rivalry between Intaj Ali and his neighbours over a plot of land. As a sequel to the dispute, both the groups equipped with lethal weapons attacked each other at about 2:00pm leaving Chandan, son of Intaj, dead on the spot.
The police recovered the body and sent it to hospital morgue. A case was recorded.
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