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Mizanur Rahman	Mizanur Rahman	Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh	Bangladesh				20051212	Link
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Bangladesh

RAB arrests leader of Hashu-Kashu Bahini organized crime gang

2019-12-14

[Dhaka Tribune] There are 12 cases against him in different cop shoppes

Someone has been reading Rantburg. Only he misspelt planets.

Rapid Action Battalion

(RAB) has arrested a man with weapons and yaba pills.

Fondly known as the madness drug and Nazi speed, yaba is basically meth plus caffeine, primarily manufactured in Malaysia and distributed via Thailand.

RAB made the arrest from Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area, Dhaka on Friday.

The arrested Abul Kashem alias Hashu, is a ringleader of "Hashu-Kashu Bahini" an organised crime gang.

Once upon a time, back in 1971 when Bangladesh liberated itself from Pakistan, the bahinis were guerrilla groups fighting for the motherland. After they won, though, those that did not demobilize and return to civilian life turned bandit, and bandits they have been ever since.

RAB Legal and Media wing Senior Assistant Director Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan

...a three-namer with a title that suggests the RAB is no long the free wheeling operation of its earlier days...

confirmed the matter.

He said a team of RAB 4 conducted a raid in the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area based on an intelligence information

*Ring* *ring* “Mahmoud the Weasel here. Listen carefully — I will say this only once.”

and arrested Hashu.

Huh? It is the purpose of the RAB to take care of the worst cases, the ones the rickety, corrupt Bangladeshi justice system won’t. This historically has required a late night encounter shootout, followed by an accidental shooting precisely behind the ear.

"Hashu is a notorious criminal who committed crimes like extortion, land grabbing, abduction and killing in Mirpur, Agargaon and its adjoining areas," he said.

He extorted money from traders, industrialists, contractors, and even job seekers. He is also involved in drug business, said the RAB official.

Clearly, given the yaba pills.

"During the primary interrogation, he admitted that he is the ringleader of the Hashu-Kashu Bahini. There are more than 12 cases against him for extortion, murder, torture of women in different cop shoppes," the RAB official added.

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Bangladesh

Bodies recovered in Noakhali, Dinajpur as families accuse murders over dowry

2019-12-13

[Dhaka Tribune] Police on Thursday recovered the hanging bodies of two women, whose families claimed they were killed for failing to pay an endless dowry demanded by their husbands.

The body of Hasina Akter Pakhi, 30, was recovered from the Dakshin Rajarampur village of the Senbug upazila in Noakhali and the body of Mukhtar Parvin, 19, was recovered from the Mongolpur village of Birol upazila in Dinajpur.

Hasina's brother Yunus said: "My sister was married to Anwar Hossain 12 years ago. Anwar used to beat her often for dowry. Recently my family bought him an auto-rickshaw as he was unemployed. Two days ago we gave him Tk20,000, yet he strangled my sister to death and hung her body from a beam of his house."

Senbug cop shoppe OC Mizanur Rahman said: "Anwar is nowhere to be found in the village since the incident. Hasina's body was sent to Noakhali General Hospital morgue for an appointment with Dr. Quincy. Necessary action will be taken after a case is filed regarding the matter.

Mukhtar's younger sister, Rumi Akhter, said: "My sister was married to Mainul Hasan in March 2018. He earlier took a total of Tk4 lakh. He recently demanded a further Tk2 lakh and killed her as we failed to pay. He often used to beat her and didn't let her contact us over the phone. He hung her body from a ceiling fan to make it look like suicide. I saw injury marks on her body while she was taken for his appointment with Doctor Quincy."

Birol Police station OC Sheikh Nasim Habib said necessary action will be taken after receiving the autopsy report.

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Bangladesh

2 Ansarullah Bangla team members held in Dhaka

2019-12-07

[Dhaka Tribune] Rapid Action Battalion

(RAB) has arrested two suspected members of banned bad boy organization Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from Dhaka’s Pallabi.

They were arrested Thursday night, reports UNB.

The arrestees are Manjurul Islam Shohag, 26, and Shukkur Ali, 22.

Confirming the matter, RAB 4 Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mizanur Rahman (media) said: "Acting on a tip-off,
[RING!]
Cop shoppe! Sergeant Shafiq speaking!
Lissen! Dis is Mahmoud da Weasel! I got a tip for youse...
a team of RAB 4 members conducted a drive in the Pallabi area, and arrested them."

The elite force officials recovered some leaflets and jihadi books from their possession.

No knives, shutter guns, or rounds of bullet? Not really worth the RAB’s time, unless they were incidental in the search for someone wanted on twelve planets, and therefore worth encontering.

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Bangladesh

7 to hang for Holey Artisan terror attack

2019-12-06

[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court on Wednesday delivered the verdict in the Holey Artisan Bakery attack case, sentencing seven New JMB bully boyz to death and acquitting one of all charges.

The July 1, 2016, carnage saw 23 people killed, including 17 foreigners and two coppers, and ended when an army commando team stormed the cafe premises in Gulshan and shot the five attackers dead the next day.

The seven condemned to death are: Md Aslam Hossain alias Rashed alias Ryash, Jahangir Hossain alias Rajib Gandhi, Abdus Sabur Khan alias Sohel Mahfuz, Hadisur Rahman Sagor, Rakibul Islam Regan, Shariful Islam Khaled, and Mamunur Rashid Ripon.

The court ordered hanging them till death, apart from fining them Tk50,000 each.

The verdict, pronounced by Judge Md Majibur Rahman of the Anti Terrorism Special Tribunal, drew shouts of "Allahu Akbar" from the convicts, who showed no remorse.

Of the seven, Jahangir, Aslam, Shariful, and Sabur, were among those who planned the attack, Hadisur and Ripon supplied the arms, and Regan was the religious trainer of the attackers.

Jahangir also recruited the five cafe attackers: Nibras Islam, Mir Sabeh Mubashir, Rohan Imtiaz, Khairul Islam Payel, and Shafiqul Islam Uzzal.

The eighth accused in the case, Mizanur Rahman alias Boro Mizan, was acquitted of all charges as the charges were not proved beyond doubt by the prosecution.

All eight were either top leaders or members of New JMB, a splinter faction of banned Death Eater outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s, which remains obscure and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt.
, or JMB.

The accused were brought to the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court premises around 10:15am, where security was beefed up ahead of the verdict in the case filed for the deadliest terror attack in Bangladesh’s history.

The state counsels said they were happy with the verdict and will appeal to a higher court if necessary, against Boro Mizan’s acquittal.

Defence lawyers said the witness testimonies and evidence were inconsistent, and they will definitely move to the higher courts challenging the verdict.

Inspector General of Police Dr Javed Patwary said the police was pleased with the sentencing, save for the acquittal of Boro Mizan. He said they will ask the prosecution to appeal against it.

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Bangladesh

RAB arrests two suspected JMB members in Dhaka

2019-10-31

[Dhaka Tribune] Rapid Action Battalion

(RAB) have arrested two suspected members of banned holy warrior outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s, which remains obscure and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt.
(JMB).

They were arrested from Mirpur's Rupnagar area of Dhaka early Wednesday.

“Stick ‘em up, boys, and come quietly, or we shall be forced to have an encounter.”
“Aieee! Not an encounter! We’ll come quietly, we will. Aieee.”
“Aieee! Quietly, yes. Aieeeeee!”

The arrestees are Shahjalal, 30, and Shamim, 28, from Barisal and Munshiganj.

RAB legal and media wing Senior Assistant Director Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan said: "They are active members of JMB."

"We are questioning them and will soon take legal action."

“Sergeant Rafiq, send out for tea and biscuits, and a barrel of #4 mustache wax. It’s going to br a long night.”

RAB 4 Senior ASP Sajedul Islam Sajal said: "They were on their way to Cox’s Bazar to recruit Rohingyas for JMB."

...illegals doing the jobs ~~good~~ bad Bangladeshis won’t do...

"Earlier, they managed to include some Rohingyas in their group."

This explains the poor quality of miscreants they’ve been seeing recently. You get what you pay for, I always say.

However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
the ASP did not reveal the name of Rohingyas, allegedly involved with JMB.

Yup. They vanished as if they had never been. Shipman could have told you.

RAB also recovered arms,

...the hands were stored elsewhere...

bully boy books and leaflets from their possession.

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Bangladesh

Police: Father, uncle killed Tuhin to frame rivals

2019-10-16

[Dhaka Tribune] Five-year-old Tuhin Hasan was killed by his father, uncle and cousin, Sunamganj police have said a day after the brutal murder that shook the country.

The district’s Acting Superintendent of Police (SP) Md Mizanur Rahman disclosed the information at a press briefing at his office yesterday evening.

"Tuhin’s father Abdul Basir, Basir’s brother Nasir Uddin and nephew Shahriar murdered the five-year-old and hung him from the tree to frame their rivals," he said.

Their involvement was confirmed during police’s primary interrogation and through confessional statements of two of them, he said.

Nasir and Shahriar yesterday confessed in front of a Sunamganj court to their direct involvement in the murder along with Basir.

Another court yesterday also granted police three days to interrogate Basir and his two other brothers, Abdul Mosabbir and Jamshed Ali.

The confessional statements have also confirmed Mosabbir and Jamshed’s direct involvement.

All five were shown arrested in a murder case that Tuhin's mother Monira Begum filed at Derai cop shoppe on Monday night.

Tuhin’s mutilated dead body was found hanging from a tree near the family’s home at Kejaura village under Derai upazila’s Rajanagar union in the early hours of Monday.

The child’s body bore stab wounds, while his throat was slit and his ears and genitals cut off. Two knives that were used to kill him were also left jammed in Tuhin’s abdomen.

The news of the murder and photos of Tuhin’s dead body soon went viral on social media, drawing much condemnation from the netizens.

Many also questioned the sanity and humanity of those who killed the child, and demanded their immediate arrest and maximum punishment.

On Monday evening, Acting SP Mizanur had said that they found the involvement of several family members in the murder following preliminary interrogation.

He said yesterday that Basir is accused in several cases, including one filed over murder. The other four are also named in a number of cases.

"Basir has old rivalries with a number of people of the Kejaura village, including former UP member Anwar Hossain, Soleman and Salatul, over different issues. He decided to kill Tuhin in a bid to frame the rivals and establish dominance in the area."

The police official said: "Basir himself took a sleeping Tuhin outside from their home and led others in killing the child.

"Basir was even carrying Tuhin when the child’s throat was slit. Afterwards, Basir and Nasir led the others in stabbing and mutilating Tuhin’s body, before hanging it from the tree."

Mizanur said they would further investigate to determine whether anyone else was involved in the murder. "We will send the murder weapons for forensic tests and run fingerprints."

"This is a sensitive case. We will submit our investigation report in court very soon. The killers will hopefully get exemplary punishment," he added.

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Bangladesh

7 ABT members arrested from Narayanganj, Pabna

2019-10-14

[Dhaka Tribune] Members of Rapid Action Battalion

(RAB) arrested 7 suspected members of banned bully boy outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from Narayanganj, and Pabna on Sunday.

In Narayanganj, RAB 11 arrested two suspected activists of ABT when they were holding a secret meeting in the dead of night at a madrasa under Fatullah cop shoppe in the early hours.

The arrested are Md Mehedi Hossain, alias Murad, 24, and Md Amanullah, 33, confirmed RAB 11 Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Md Alep Uddin.

Mehedi told RAB that he completed his Bachelor of Science degree from a private textile university in Dhaka in 2016, he joined JMB in 2014. He was reaching out across the country to gather recruits up until now. Md Amanullah was a madrasa teacher in Narayanganj who joined ABT through Mehedi. Amanullah secretly held meetings of the JMB members in his madrasa.

The RAB seized a large number of books, and a laptop containing digital data on extremism from their possession.

In Pabna, RAB 14 arrested five suspected activists of ABT from Bera, and Santhia upazila.

The arrested from Bera upazila are: Md Abdullah, 21, and Abul Kalam Azad, 27, of Shambhupur village; Md Wazed Ali, 30, of Hatiagara village, and Mizanur Rahman Mizan, 23, of Chhoto Paina village.

Another arrested Ruhul Amin, 23, hails from Rangamatia village in Santhia upazila.

Bera cop shoppe OC Sheikh Mahmud said: "RAB handed over the suspected ABT members to us this evening (Sunday). Books on extremism was found in their possession.”

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Bangladesh

RAB Kills 4 Poachers

2019-05-30

Four people accused of poaching threatened Bengal tigers were shot dead by Bangladesh police on Wednesday during a gunfight in a mangrove forest, officials said.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) police challenged armed men on a boat in the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, spokesman Mizanur Rahman said.

The poachers opened fire sparking the battle, Rahman told AFP. Four bodies, guns and ammunition were found on the boat.

RAB denied the use of the oft-maligned but never underestimated stutter gun.

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Bangladesh

Holey Artisan attack case to be moved to the Anti-Terrorism Special tribunal

2018-07-27

[Dhaka Tribune] Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court has ordered that all documents, including the charge sheet, of the case filed over the 2016 terrorist attack on Gulshan’s Holey Artisan Bakery be sent to the Anti-terrorism Special Tribunal.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Saifuzzaman Hiru issued the order on Thursday after scrutinizing the case dockets, according to court sources.

Earlier in the day, Metropolitan Magistrate Nurunnahar Yasmin had accepted the charge sheet and sent it to him for observations.

Sources said the case documents would be sent to the special tribunal in Dhaka on Sunday.

The trial of the case at the tribunal will start after its Judge Md Mujibur Rahman accepts the charge sheet.

Last Monday, police had pressed charges against eight leaders and members of bad boy outfit New JMB in the sensational case.

Six of the accused are Jahangir Alam alias Rajib Gandhi, Rashedul Islam alias Rash, Sohel Mahfuz alias Hatkata Mahfuz, Rakibul Islam Reagan, Mizanur Rahman alias Boro Mizan, and Hadisur Rahman Sagor.

They are currently behind bars having confessed in court their roles in the attack on the upscale eatery in the capital’s diplomatic zone.

Police have prayed to the court to issue arrest warrants against two other ~~bandidos~~ bully boyz ‐ Shariful Islam Khalid and Mamunur Rashid Ripon ‐ who are still on the run, and reportedly hiding in India.

The Sherlocks had also dropped former North South University teacher Hasnat Reza Karim’s name from the charge sheet as the charges against him could not be proved.

However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
Metropolitan Magistrate Fahad Bin Amin denied his bail plea on Thursday.

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Bangladesh

Conspiracy to kill Joy: Arrest warrant issued for Shafik Rehman, 3 others

2018-03-07

[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court has issued arrest warrants for journalist Shafik Rehman and three others in the case filed over an alleged conspiracy to kidnap and kill Prime Minister ~~the loathesome~~ Sheikh Hasina

...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
’s son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy.

Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sharafuzzaman Ansary on Tuesday issued the warrants after accepting the charges police levelled against five individuals.

Aside from Shafik, among the accused are pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha’s Vice-President Mohammad Ullah Mamun, his son Rizvi Ahmed Caesar, and Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan, an expatriate Bangladeshi businessman living in the United States.

The fifth accused who was also indicted is Mahmudur Rahman, the acting editor of Daily Amar Desh. Mahmudur, who is currently out on bail, was present in court on Tuesday.

Shafik, former editor of the Daily Jaijaidin, is also out on bail at present. His lawyer Joynul Abedin on Tuesday sought more time as Shafik is currently in London with his wife, who is undergoing cancer treatment.

But the court rejected the plea and issued the warrant.

Senior Assistant Commissioner of the Detective Branch (DB) of police Hasan Arafat, also the case investigating officer, had submitted the charge sheet in court on February 22, accusing the five for allegedly conspiring to kidnap and murder Joy, who is also the ICT affairs adviser to the PM.

On August 3, 2015, DB Inspector Fazlur Rahman had filed the case at Paltan model cop shoppe.

According to the case details, Shafik, Mahmudur, Mamun, and several other leaders of BNP and its allied political parties had met in several places ‐ both in Dhaka and in New York and the UK ‐ in 2011 and plotted to abduct and kill Joy in the US.

Shafik had also allegedly met with Mamun’s son Caesar, the then FBI special agent Robert Lustyik, and Lustyik’s friend Johannes Thaler in the UK, the US, and Bangladesh in 2012 to finalize the plot, police said.

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Bangladesh

‘I attacked Zafar Iqbal because he is an enemy of Islam’

2018-03-05

[Dhaka Tribune] Foyzur Rahman Faizul, who stabbed noted author Dr Zafar Iqbal at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), has confessed that he deems the professor an enemy of Islam.

While talking to news hounds on Saturday night, RAB 9 Chief Lt Col Ali Haidar Azad said: "During the interrogation, Faizul told us that he attacked Prof Zafar Iqbal because the professor was an enemy of Islam."

"The assailant has been admitted to a hospital. During initial investigation, he provided us with contradictory statements. We are yet to determine whether Faizul is a member of a terror group," Ali Haidar of Rapid Action Battalion

said.

He said: "More details will be unearthed as we carry out further investigation regarding the attack on Zafar Iqbal."

Zafar Iqbal was speaking at a two-day long fair organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering when he was stabbed in the back of his head by an assailant armed with a knife on Saturday.

The attack occurred around 5:40pm. The attacker, a youth identified as Foizur, was immediately taken down and detained by authorities after a severe thrashing.

Zafar was taken to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College after the attack afternoon.

Also Read- ISPR: Zafar Iqbal out of danger

From there he was taken by an air force ambulance to the air force’s Tejgaon air field in Dhaka, and then taken to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH).

A team of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit (CTTC) is in Sylhet to interrogate the attacker.

According to CTTC sources, investigation is being conducted taking into consideration the numerous threats Zafar Iqbal received from hard boy groups over the past few years.

Attack on Zafar Iqbal: Who is Faizul?

[Dhaka Tribune] Foyzur Rahman Faizul, who stabbed noted author Zafar Iqbal at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), was a madrasa student and had abandoned his studies to sell clothes on the streets.

According to sources, Faizul gave up his studies four years ago, and started selling clothes in 2016. He traded at Kaliyarkapon Bazar under Derai upazila of Sunamganj.

Locals, preferring to be anonymous, revealed that Faizul was ejected from a local mosque for arguing about the teachings of Islam around that time.

Faizul’s father- Hafiz Atiqur Rahman is a teacher at Jameya Makhlisia Madrasa situated in the outskirts of Sylhet. Faizul has four other siblings.

The youth used to live with his family in their own home in Sheikhpara area of Sylhet. He left his home after being ejected from the local mosque.

Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, a local villager, told the Dhaka Tribune: "Faizul used to visit Kaliyarkapon village quite often and sold clothes around the neighbourhood. However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
we have not seen him for the past two years. He was a student at the Dhol Madrasa at the village.

"Faizul’s maternal uncle Zahar Mia was also taken out from a mosque for arguing about Islam. Zahar currently lives in Kuwait. He followed the footsteps of his uncle and tried to establish his interpretation of Islam into the mosque, but faced stiff resistance from the local mosque-goers."

Following the attack on Zafar Iqbal, Faizul’s family members locked up their residence and fled the neighbourhood around 9pm on Saturday.

Before leaving their home, the family told their neighbours that they are visiting the hospital.

Law enforcers soon conducted a raid at Faizul’s home but are yet to track down the family.

Faizul is currently undergoing treatment at the Sylhet CMH. Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
a statement released by the Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR) has confirmed that Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal is currently out of danger at the Dhaka CMH.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh PM assassination attempt: 11 get 20 years jail

2017-10-30

[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court has sentenced 11 people to 20 years’ imprisonment for attempting to assassinate Awami League President and incumbent Bangladesh Prime Minister ~~the loathesome~~ Sheikh Hasina

...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
at her family residence in Dhanmondi, Dhaka 28 years ago.

The convicts, all members of Bangladesh Freedom Party, were also sentenced to life-time imprisonment for hurling bombs at the Dhandmondi Road 32 residence of Hasina’s father and Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 11, 1989.

Judge Md Zahidul Kabir of Dhaka Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court issued the verdict on Sunday.

The convicts were fined Tk20,000 each in both the cases and an additional six months in prison in case of default.

The accused include Najmul Maksud Murad, Lt Col Khandaker Abdur Rashid, Gulam Sarwar Faruk alias Mamun, Joj Miah, Freedom Sohel, Gazi Imam Hossain, Khandaker Amirul Islam Kajol, Mizanur Rahman, Md Shahjahan Balu, Jafar Ahmed and Md Humayun Kabir.

One of the accused in the cases, Humayun Kabir, was acquitted as the charges against him were not proven at court.

Expressing satisfaction over the verdict, Public prosecutor Abdullah Abu said the attack was carried out in continuation of the brutal liquidation of Sheikh Hasina’s family that took place on August 15, 1975.

"They wanted to make the Awami League leaderless by killing Sheikh Hasina. The court has ensured their punishment and we are happy for that," he added.

A total of 12 witnesses testified before the court since the deposition recording began on August 27, 2009 in two cases on the attack.

According to the cases, seven or eight armed activists of Bangladesh Freedom Party, riding two three-wheelers, came to the residence of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Road 32 in Dhanmondi on August 11, 1989.

Forcing into the residence, the miscreants hurled grenades and shot up the building, where Hasina was staying at the time.

In retaliation, police members Habilder Jahirul Haque and Constable Zakir Hossain, who were stationed at the premises for security, shot up the attackers, who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace chanting slogans such as "Col Farooq Zindabad".

Later, Jahirul filed two cases with Dhanmondi cop shoppe under the Explosives Substances Act and the Penal Code.

On February 20, 1997, the then assistant superintendent of Criminal Investigation Department (CID),

Khalekuzzaman, who also investigated the cases, submitted charge sheets accusing 16 people.

The trial in the case began on July 5, 2009.

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