FM Mizanur Rahaman

A court yesterday placed a staffer of Chattogram regional Election Office (EC) on a four-day remand in a case filed with Kotwali Police Station over Bangladeshi National Identity (NID) card forgery for Rohingyas.

A sense of fear has gripped residents of port city’s Patharghata Brickfield Road, following the massive gas explosion at a house on Sunday morning, which left seven people dead and at least 15 wounded.

Julekha Khanam Farzana told her younger son Atifur Rahman that she would come back to pick him up from school after dropping his elder brother at tutor’s house in Chattogram city’s Patharghata area.

JMB operatives are now trying to boost its organisational activities in Teknaf with the help of some Rohingyas, Rapid Action Battalion has claimed.

Some nurses, hospital staff members and employees of diagnostic centres of Chattogram are involved in stealing babies, said police.

Investigators of the much-talked-about case of National Identity (NID) scam involving Rohingyas have been waiting for the green signal from high-ups to arrest the Election Commission (EC) staff members whose involvement were found in confessional statements of three forgery gang ring leaders.

More than 100 shops were gutted in a devastating fire that broke out at Jahur Hawkers’ Market, one of the largest readymade garments market in Chattogram early yesterday.

Four persons, including a former officer-in-charge (OC) of Panchlaish Police Station, have been sued on charge of producing a youth before a mobile court over a “false” sexual harassment incident.

Equipped with a new gadget that can show results in five seconds, highway police in Chattogram have started checking for drunk drivers on highways, with an aim to minimise road accidents.

Discontent and panic have gripped officers who hail from Chattogram district -- at different levels of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) -- after an order issued by the deputy commissioner (headquarters) of CMP to make a list of “Chittagonian officers” for transfer.

While police are waiting for the autopsy report of Rebeka Sultana Poly, 13, whose hanging body was recovered from her residence on Wednesday in port city’s Madhyam Halishahar area, her family is demanding justice saying that she was raped and murdered.

Investigators are keeping a close eye on several senior officials of Election Commission (EC) at its Dhaka headquarters and Chattogram regional office, whose names came up in confessional statements of three people, in connection with a case filed with Kotwali Police Station in the port city, over National Identity Card (NID) forgery for Rohingya refugees.

Md Shah Nur Mia, ringleader of a syndicate which handed forged national identity cards to Rohingyas, has been arrested, CMP investigators said yesterday.

Some 50 staffers, mostly data entry operators, of different projects of the Election Commission’s Chattogram office are under the scanner, after investigators found their involvement in making Bangladeshi National Identity (NID) cards for the Rohingya people, police said.

Members of a syndicate were using a house in Chittagong’s Hamzarbagh to make forged national identity cards for Rohingyas, police said yesterday.

Two syndicates providing forged national identity cards to Rohingyas are mainly run by two families, and their members hold different posts at the Election Commission offices in Dhaka, Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar, said ACC investigators.

A nexus of brokers and some dishonest staffers of the Election Commission’s Chattogram office provides forged national identity cards to Rohingyas, an EC investigation team has found.

A special laptop for inputting NID information into the Election Commission’s server has been missing from the Chattogram District Election Office since 2015 and investigators believe it was used for making over 2,000 dubious entries.

Investigators yesterday quizzed film actress Shimla in connection with the sensational case of Biman Bangladesh aircraft hijacking bid at Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport earlier this year, by her former husband Polash Ahmed. Talking to reporters, Shimla

Union parishad chairmen in several upazilas of Chattogram have allegedly been issuing citizenship certificates to Rohingyas, paving the way for the refugees to eventually obtain Bangladeshi national identity card or passport.