FM Mizanur Rahaman

A foreign organisation of Rohingyas is assisting some Myanmar nationals -- who took shelter in Bangladesh following the military crackdown in Rakhine State -- in passport forgery, according to Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) in Chattogram.

With an aim to identify virtual troublemakers who spread rumours through instigating posts and videos on social media platforms, and speed up investigation, the Cyber Crime Monitoring Cell of Counter Terrorism (CT) unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police is going to launch a Cyber Lab.

After nearly 11 months of investigation, Counter Terrorism (CT) unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police has submitted its final report on the much talked-about case of Biman Bangladesh aircraft hijacking bid at Shah Amanat International Airport last year, implicating Polash Ahmed, who was killed in a commando operation.

A Chattogram court yesterday sentenced five former policemen to death over opening fire on a procession led by Awami League President Sheikh Hasina that killed 24 people in 1988.

“Every day, I walk to Government City College’s gate and stand before my son’s [Sudipto] photo on the wall... I remove the dust from the photo with my hands. I feel like his image looks back at me and is trying to tell me something… An indescribable pain has been eating me up every waking moment since his death,” 68-year-old Meghnath Biswas, father of BCL leader Sudipto Biswas, lamented.

Saifuzzaman Khan Mintu was returning to Dhaka with his three children and wife yesterday after a long-awaited trip to Bandarban.

Police have started their search for financiers and donors of banned militant outfit “Allahr Dal”.

Counter Terrorism (CT) unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) is getting a clear picture of the tricks and techniques used by banned militant outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir to carry out its activities in the port city, officials of the force told this newspaper.

Some high-ranking Election Commission officials in Dhaka and Chattogram took money using their office staffers as middlemen and forged national ID cards for the Rohingyas.

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.