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Mufti Abul Kashem

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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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Man caught with 1,925 yaba pills inside his bung hole at Dhaka airport

2019-12-10

Ouch.

[Dhaka Tribune] Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) has detained a man with 1,925 yaba pills hidden in his rectum in Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA).

The detainee, identified as Abul Kashem, 54, was held from outside the airport's domestic terminal on Monday.

Confirming the matter to Dhaka Tribune, APBn Additional Superintendent of Police Alamgir Hossain said: "The market value of the sized yaba pills is around Tk10 lakh.

"During interrogation Kashem confessed
"Owwwww! Make him stop!"
that he landed at the Dhaka airport with the yaba pills hidden in his rectum from Cox's Bazar around 4pm Monday."

"The suspect confirmed that he himself bought the yaba pills and was supposed to deliver them to other yaba traders operating in Dhaka’s Fakirapool area.

"Necessary legal action will be taken against him," Alamgir added.

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RAB arrests 5 New JMB militants in Jatrabari, Badda

2017-03-24

[Dhaka Tribune] Rapid Action Battalion

(RAB) has detained five suspected members of a new faction of banned murderous Moslem outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB) from Dhaka’s Jatrabari and Badda areas, on Monday night.

The detainees are Oliuzzaman alias Oli, 28, an engineer at a multinational company, Anwarul Alam, 29, a coaching centre teacher, Saleh Ahmed Sheesh, 22, Abul Kashem, 27, and Md Mohon Mohsin, 20.

The elite force claimed they foiled their attempt to attack a government building/establishment in Dhaka.

"The five had been planning to conduct an attack on a government establishment in the capital," said Additional Deputy General (Operations) Colonel Anwar Latif Khan of RAB at their headquarters, on Tuesday.

He, however, did not disclose the name or location of the targeted establishment to avoid public panic.

"We are looking for two more JMB men Munir and Salman who were instructed to carry out the attack," said Col Anwar.

RAB claimed Oliuzzaman was JMB’s IT expert and has allegedly been running JMB’s IT cell in Mirpur and Kafrul for about a year.

He also trained other JMB men in IT and how to use social media, said Col Anwar.

Oliuzzaman’s friend and another BUET graduate Anwarul is apparently an explosives specialist according to RAB ADG.

The arrestees during the initial interrogation admitted to their involvement with JMB while RAB found that they were actively spreading communal propaganda on social media, said RAB-10 Operation Officer Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Kamrul Hasan.

According to RAB, the detainees belong to New JMB’s Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury and Sarwar Jahan faction.

"The absconding members of JMB’s Sarwar-Tamim faction is trying to regroup and conduct further subversive activities across the country," said Col Anwar. Books promoting religious extremism and explosives were recovered from their possessions.

A case has been filed against the five with the Kotwali Thana under the Anti-Terrorism (amendment) Act 2013 and a Dhaka Court has sent them to jail setting March 28 for their 10-day remand hearing.

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New JMB ‘spiritual leader’ remanded

2017-03-04

[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court has granted a seven-day remand against New JMB’s alleged "spiritual leader" Maulana Abul Kashem in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Satyabrata Shikder passed the order on Friday afternoon when investigation officer CTTC Inspector Jahangir Alam produced him before the court with a 10-day remand plea.

Earlier he was shown tossed in the slammer
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
in a case at Dhaka’s Mirpur model cop shoppe.

"Maulana Kashem also headed a faction of the original Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh bad boy group," Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Deputy Commissioner (media) Masudur Rahman told the Dhaka Tribune.

The New JMB group is affiliated with the international terrorist group Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
that eyes establishing Shariah Law in the country, and spreading its jihad to Myanmar’s Rakhine State and parts of India.

Maulana Kashem had been working at the Okharabari Madrasa of Dinajpur. CTTC unit officials in October last year said that Maulana Kashem had been under their surveillance.

Most of its leaders including its military and operations chief Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury have been killed in shootouts with the police or arrested after they killed over two dozen people at a Dhaka restaurant on July 1 last year.

The detectives are now looking for eight to ten second-tier leaders of the New JMB, who were involved in at least three dozen attacks since September 2015.

The once-mighty JMB, which was formed in 1998 and banned in 2005, has now split into several small groups due to the detention of its second ameer Maulana Saidur Rahman in 2010 and the execution of five top leaders, including its founder Shayakh Abdur Rahman, in 2007.

Maulana Kashem declared him chief of the unit after the arrest of Maulana Saidur.

Former Majlish-e-Sura member of the JMB and a death-row convict, Salahuddin alias Salehin now heads the old JMB faction. He has remained absconding since February 2014 when JMB members snatched him from a prison van.

Bangladesh-origin Canadian citizen Tamim Chowdhury came to Bangladesh on October 5, 2013 from Syria and tried to form an umbrella group of bad boy outfits.

Tamim later met Maulana Kashem in July 2015 when he helped Tamim to reunite old JMB members.

After the death of Tamim, the operations wing came under the lead of Faridul Islam Akash and later Nurul Islam Marjan, both killed in raids by the police’s CTTC unit.

Another leader of the outfit Musa alias Mainuddin alias Mosiuddin is now leading its operations.

A dozen other top and second-tier leaders of the New JMB group are still absconding. They include Basharuzzaman alias Abul Bashar alias Chocolate, Sohel Mahfuz alias Hatkata Mahfuz, Ripon, Khalid, Junayed Hasan Khan, Iqbal, Manik, Mamun, Azadul Kabiraz and Badal.

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‘Spiritual leader’ of Dhaka cafe attackers is arrested by Bangladesh police

2017-03-04

[SCMP] Bangladesh police said on Friday they had locked away
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
the "spiritual leader" of a banned Islamist outfit alleged to have carried out a series of deadly attacks in the country.

Police detained Maolana Abul Kashem, 60, from a hideout in the capital on Thursday night after an investigation linked him to the Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) group.

Mohibul Islam Khan, deputy commissioner of the Dhaka police counter-terrorism unit, said Kashem had inspired the attack on a Dhaka cafe last July in which 22 people including 18 foreign hostages were killed.

"He was the spiritual leader of the JMB," Khan said. "In our primary investigation we have found all [the Death Eaters] were inspired by him."

Khan said Kashem had met the alleged criminal mastermind of the cafe attack Tamim Chowdhury "several times". Bangladesh has suffered a spate of attacks on secular activists, foreigners and religious minorities in recent years.

Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group have grabbed credit for several of the attacks, but 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 secular government has pinned the blame on local Death Eaters.

Bangladeshi security forces have launched a nationwide crackdown on Islamist Death Eater groups since the cafe attack, arresting scores of suspected Death Eaters.

Several top leaders of the JMB have also been killed, most in what police said were shoot-outs. Rights groups have voiced suspicions these may have been staged. Another counter-terrorism police officer Sanwar Hossain said Kashem had headed an Islamic seminary before joining the JMB in 1998.

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Tamim Chowdhury featured in new IS publication

2016-10-05

[Dhaka Tribune] A new Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
publication has featured an article on the July 1 Gulshan cafe attack ostensibly written by Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, who was killed during a police operation in Narayanganj on August 27.

Interestingly, the byline of the article, published in the second issue of IS’ Rumiyah magazine, says: "Abu Dujanah al-Bangali (Tamim Chowdhury), Former Head of Military and Covert Operations of the Soldiers of Khilafah in Bengal."

Police on several occasions referred to Tamim as Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif, before and after he was bumped off during the so-called Operation Hit Strong 27. Two other suspected Lions of Islam were killed in the drive.

The multilingual magazine released late Tuesday night also published an infographic of 24 out of 26 attacks the IS supporters have carried out in Bangladesh since September last year. The victims include foreigners, non-Moslem and non-Sunni preachers, law enforcers and a university professor.

A useful little backgrounder on Mr. Chowdhury can be seen at the link. His family lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Tamim is believed to be the criminal mastermind of the Holey Artisan Bakery attack in Gulshan on July 1 and the attack on police near Sholakia Eid congregation on July 8. At least 25 people, including foreigners, law enforcement personnel and civilians, were killed in the terrorist attacks.

On September 23, IS released its second Bangla video featuring as heroes the five Gulshan attackers ‐ Nibras Islam, Rohan Imtiaz, Khairul Islam Payel, Shafiqul Islam Uzzal and Meer Saameh Mubasser who were killed in a commando operation on July 2.

The Lions of Islam in the video, believed to be recorded sometime before the Gulshan attack, made statements justifying their stance, and criticising the democratic system and politicians. They also came down heavily on the Islamic scholars for resisting Moslems from joining the armed jihad of the Islamic State.

The home minister reacted: "I have said it before there is no organizational existence and leader of IS in Bangladesh. The video footage has been released as part of a conspiracy against Bangladesh."

The New JMB, which, according to police, works as the Islamic State affiliate in Bangladesh has lost 31 of its members in raids while two killed themselves since November last year.

Detectives claim that local Lions of Islam close to banned outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh formed the New JMB group to create anarchy and terrorise foreigners in the country. The IS aims at establishing Shariah law in the country and use Bangladesh as its base to launch attacks in Myanmar and India.

After Tamim’s death, counter-terrorism officials claimed that the strength of New JMB had almost waned. The detectives are now looking for the field-level coordinator, financiers and arms suppliers for the July 1 attack.

They said that Tamim had been assisted by a top JMB leader, Abul Kashem alias Boro Huzur. Known as a great religious preacher working at the Okharabari Madrasa of Dinajpur, Kashem mainly helped Tamim to reunite the JMB members.

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31 ‘IS supporters’ killed in 10 months

2016-09-12

[Dhaka Tribune] Law enforcers have dealt Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh’s new faction a severe body blow over the last ten months, killing leader Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury and 30 of its operatives. Two other identified members of the deadly group have died by their own hands ‐ one in a suicide mission and another to evade arrest.

The dead gunnies were involved in attacks carried out and claimed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group since October last year.

Militant Md Tarek Aziz alias Musa died in a suicide kaboom on an Ahmadiyya mosque in Baghmara, Rajshahi on December 26.

Md Shamsher Uddin alias Abdul Karim, who rented safe houses for New JMB operatives in Bashundhara, Kallyanpur and Narayanganj, killed himself during a police raid in Dhaka’s Azimpur area on September 10.

Nine of the 31 gunnies belonging to the outfit were killed before the July 1 Gulshan attack and another eight have been killed in raids since August.

The government does not recognise the killed gunnies as IS members because they say the international terrorist group does not have an organizational structure here. Instead, it labels the gunnies as members of New JMB.

After the police operation in Narayanganj that killed New JMB coordinator and Gulshan attack criminal mastermind Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury on August 27, and Tamim’s second-in-command in a Mirpur raid on September 2, Sherlocks identified Maulana Abul Kashem as the group’s spiritual leader.

Detectives say the once-mighty JMB, which was formed in 1998 and banned in 2005, has now split into three small groups due to the detention of its second ameer Maulana Saidur Rahman in 2010 and the execution of five top leaders, including its founder Shayakh Abdur Rahman, in 2007.

Law enforcers are now looking for Kashem ‐ a former leader of the main JMB and former principal of Okhabari Madrasa in Dinajpur, and a dozen other coordinators and top leaders of the New JMB including Nurul Islam Marjan. Detectives claim they have also identified a number of foreign and local financiers and patronisers of the group.

Tamim, 30, a Canadian citizen who came to Bangladesh on October 5, 2013 via Dubai, is believed to have formed the new Death Eater outfit. Tamim is believed to have met Kashem in July last year. During the meeting, Kashem gave Tamim the nom de guerre Abu Bakar al-Hanif.

Dabiq, the IS’s propaganda magazine, published an interview of al-Hanif and referred to him as IS’s chief in Bangladesh.

In the interview, he said attacks were being planned against India and Myanmar where he said Moslems were being persecuted, from their base in Bangladesh. But this process will take time due to the presence of Hindus in Bangladesh, Hanif said.

The group began its operations last year by killing Japanese citizen Hoshi Kunio in Kaunia, Rangpur on October 3, according to the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit that deals with militancy-related cases.

But according to IS news agency Amaq, the group’s first attack was the killing of Italian citizen and NGO worker Cesare Tavella in Gulshan on September 28. Police recently pressed charges in the case against a number of BNP leaders and activists who allegedly hired gunnies to target and kill an expatriate.

Amaq lists 26 operations carried out until August 23, when a Hindu grocer survived a machete attack in Narsingdi. During this time, the deadliest single attack, which left 23 people including 17 foreigners dead, took place at a Gulshan eatery on July 1.

Other victims of the attacks include non-Sunni and non-Moslem preachers, liberals and law enforcers.

Even though IS did not claim the July 7 attack on police near the Sholakia Eid congregation and another attack on a Hindu college teacher in Madaripur on June 15, Sherlocks believe the same group was behind those attacks.

Some attacks, including Death Eater-style strikes against Christians, Hindus, Shias, two Hindu temples in Dinajpur and grenade attacks on Navy mosques in Chittagong, have not been claimed by any group.

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‘Mahfuz supplied grenades for Gulshan attack’

2016-09-04

[Dhaka Tribune] Investigators have found that explosives expert Sohel Mahfuz alias Hat-kata Mahfuz, a big shot of the main JMB who later became part of the New JMB, was linked to the July 1 attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery at Gulshan

"We have information that Sohel Mahfuz supplied the grenades used by ~~bandidos~~ murderous Moslems in the Gulshan cafe attack," Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit chief Monirul Islam said yesterday.

CT unit sources say Mahfuz was a founding member of the JMB, which was formed in 1998 by former Jamaat leader and Ahle Hadith member Shayakh Abdur Rahman and declared banned in 2005. Abdur Rahman and some of his associates were hanged in 2007.

Mahfuz has expertise in making bombs. His left hand was blown off in a kaboom, but he can use a firearms with the other hand.

He is a relative of Gulshan attack’s operation commander Nurul Islam Marjan. In his student life, Mahfuz was a member of Islami Chhatra Shibir
... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
, the radical student wing of Jamaat and later joined the JMB.

Hailing from Kushtia, Mahfuz declared himself its chief after the arrest of its second ameer Saidur Rahman in 2010 but it triggered conflict within the group. Later Mahfuz went to Burdwan of India and from there tried to raise a new faction of the JMB with the help of Maulana Abul Kashem, who later became its acting chief.

CT unit sources say Mahfuz fled to India and returned home a couple of years ago and started working with the New JMB faction, coordinated by Bangladeshi-born Canadian citizen Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury. He played a key role in supplying arms and bombs for its members.

Detectives could not confirm Mahfuz’s position in the outfit.

Monirul said Marjan was an important leader of the New JMB and a close aide of Tamim.

"More information can be found about the outfit if we can arrest Marjan."

He earlier said that they learnt about eight to nine more people who had been behind the Gulshan terror attack.

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Publisher killed, 3 bloggers hurt; Ansar Al Islam claims they dunnit

2015-11-01

A progressive publisher was killed, and another publisher and two bloggers were hacked and shot by unidentified criminals in Shahbagh and Lalmatia areas of the capital yesterday. Faisal Arefin Dipan, 45, owner of Jagriti Prokashani, was stabbed dead in his office at Aziz Cooperative Market at Shahbagh while Shuddha Swar Prokashani publisher Ahmedur Rashid Tutul and writer-blogger Sudeep Kumar Roy Barman, who writes under the name of Ranadipam Basu, and Tareq Rahim were injured at Tutul’s office at Lalmatia. Dipan was the sixth progressive activist to have been killed in the country since 2013.

Both the publishers -- Dipan and Tutul -- had brought out books of writer and blogger Avijit Roy, who was hacked to death in February on the Dhaka University campus.

Dipan, a school friend of Avijit Roy, was stabbed to death yesterday afternoon and his body was recovered by police at around 6:15pm from his office on the 2nd floor of the market, said Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) (media and publications) Muntasirul Islam Rony.

Dipan was found lying in a pool of blood and was first taken to Square Hospital and later to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead, a police official confirmed.

Ansar Al Islam, the self-styled ‘Bangladeshi branch’ of militant group al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent (AQIS), has claimed credit for the killing of the publisher and attacking another. A Twitter account, purportedly handled by the militant group Ansar Al Islam, made the claim hours after the attacks on Saturday night.

“We, al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent, claim responsibility for this operation,” a message posted on the account read. When contacted over the matter, police DC Muntasirul Islam said, “We have learned about the claim of responsibility by the group. We are trying to verify the claim made by the militant outfit.”

The slain publisher’s family told reporters that they tried to contact Dipan yesterday afternoon after getting news on TV that the publisher of Shuddha Swar was attacked at his office in Lalmatia. But they failed to reach Dipan on his mobile phone. Family members then went to his office and found his body in a pool of blood. He was found alone in the room, said family members.

Dipan is the son of Professor Abul Kashem Fazlul Haque of Bangla Department of Dhaka University and his wife Razia Rahman is a senior medical officer of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).

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Ekushey Boi Mela: Stall closed for 'hurting religious sentiments'

2015-02-17

[Dhaka Tribune] Bangla Academy authorities yesterday shut down the stalls of two publication houses at the Amar Ekushey Boi Mela, with allegations of "selling books that hurt religious sentiments" and selling pirated books.

Dr Jalal Ahmed, the fair committee member secretary, said the fair authorities shut down Rodela Prokashani's stall for selling and displaying "Nabi Muhammder 23 Bachhar" on grounds of "hurting religious sentiments" and "defamatory comments on Islam and its prophet Hazrat Muhammad."

They also shut down the stall of Boi Poka for selling pirated books, he added.

23-Years.jpgThe book, which had been published by Rodela Prokashani, is a translation of Iranian writer Ali Dashti's "23 years: a study of prophetic career of Muhammad" which was originally published in 1985. The work of translation was done by duo Abul Kashem and Saikat Chowdhury.

Dr Jalal Ahmed said: "According to article 13.13 of Fair Regulations 2015, none is allowed to sell books at the fair that can hurt religious sentiments.

"The publication house breached the guidelines of the fair and it was banned accordingly."

On Monday, the stall of Rodela Prokashani was shut down with a "closed" notice.

The website of the publication house was also hacked yesterday evening, reportedly by a group named Cyber 71 that left warning messages on the website "in protest of defamatory comment on Islam and its prophet".

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Wheat for the poor misappropriated

2014-05-09

[Dhaka Tribune] Mohammad Jamal Hossain, chairman of Pablakhali Cluster Village Project, also ex president of Kobakhali union Awami League of Dighinala upazila in the district, allegedly misappropriated 45MT of wheat, allocated for 290 poor families.

According to upazila nirbahi office sources, government had allocated 25MT rice and 45MT wheat for 290 families for January, February and March month's Test Relief.

A total 87kg rice and 155kg wheat had been allocated for each of the 290 families.

The UNO office also fixed second week of March to distribute the food grains in presence of monitoring officer and Dighinala upazila Agriculture Officer Md Sala Uddin.

Mohammad Mahabub Alam, Abul Kashem, Rahomot Ali, Hasina Begum, Rehena Akhter in the village admitted that that project chairman had distributed 25MT rice among the listed 290 card holders families but misappropriated all 45MT wheat, worth over Tk9 lakh.

They also submitted a complain letter to the UNO to investigate the matter.

When asked, the chairman denied his involvement with misappropriating and said: "The incident was planned by my political rivals to tarnish my image."

Replying to another question, Jamal said he would fight legally against the complain.

Sala Uddin admitted that he had got rice during distribution the three months' Relief.

"I haven't seen wheat in the godown," he said adding that project chairman might have misappropriate the wheat.

The upazila Awami League President Md Abul Kashem admitted the allegation and said they had already suspended him for his anti-laws activities.

UNO Fazlul Zahid Pavel said: "A committee is investigating the allegation and stern action would be taken if the allegation is proved."

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Alleged extremist killed in 'gunfight'

2014-03-06

[Dhaka Tribune] An alleged bully boy was killed in what police called a 'shootout' in Damurhuda upazila, Chuadanga early yesterday.

The dear departed was identified as Abul Kashem, 35, son of late Juron Ali of Damurhuda upazila. Police said Kashem was an bully boy and had several cases against him.

A patrol team of police was attacked in Kanaibabur Aam Bagan area of Boalmari around 3:00am, officer-in-charge of Damurhuda Police Station Ahsan Habib told The Dhaka Tribune.

"The miscreants hurled three crude bombs and also fired gunshots," he said, adding that the law enforcers had been compelled to fire back in order to protect themselves. The body of Kashem was recovered from the spot later and police also recovered a locally-made gun, five rounds of bullets and four crude bombs from there, Habib said.

"Kashem was a terrorist. He has been named an accused in several cases, including murder and abduction, that were filed with a number of cop shoppes including Damurhuda Police Station," Habib added.

The incident comes amidst protests in the country over extrajudicial killings.

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