FM Mizanur Rahaman

Major (retired) Sinha Md Rashed Khan’s murder was premeditated, a Cox’s Bazar court said yesterday as it handed down death sentence to suspended police officials Pradeep Kumar Das and Liaqat Ali for the killing.

To increase and ensure security at the airport, seaport and other key points, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) has again sent an official proposal to get a full-fledged dog squad (K-9 unit).

The Rapid Action Battalion-7 has framed Chattogram city Chhatra Dal leader Md Elias Khan in an arms case, family members alleged.

Md Saiful Islam from Kishoreganj’s Katiadi upazila was arrested on October 11 by police, following a conviction warrant issued by Chattogram Chief Metropolitan Court (CMM).

At least six Rohingyas were killed and eight others injured as a group of armed criminals attacked a madrasa inside a refugee camp in Ukhiya early yesterday, hours after a block raid of the Armed Police Battalion (APBn). 

The surprise win of an alleged gangster as the councillor of Ward-16 in Chattogram has shocked many residents of the city.

Fear, frustration, and anger gripped refugees in Cox’s Bazar as the identity of the gunmen and their motive behind killing Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah remain unknown.

There is a face-off between the Chattogram district administration and lawyers of Chattogram court building over the constructions of two establishments at Parir Pahar (Fairy Hills), popularly known as Court building hill, in the port city.

To strengthen surveillance and swiftly identify criminals, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) is installing a central closed-circuit television (CCTV) system across the port city.

Due to frequent killings and shrinking of their habitat in the absence of concrete protective measures by the government, wild elephants face serious threats to their survival in the country.

While people all over the country have been waiting in line for hours to get Covid-19 jabs during the mass vaccination campaign, which began three days ago, many in the port city have been found getting the facilities illegally at their homes.

Unidentified miscreants issued 18 dubious birth registration certificates in Chattogram, after accessing the server when it was disabled for upgradation work.

Activities of river police in Chattogram region are being severely hampered due lack of manpower and water vessels.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed a case against six people, including a former ward councillor of Chattogram City Corporation and three Rohingyas, for issuing citizenship and birth certificates to Rohingyas.

A constable was held hostage at the Hathazari madrasa to force the authorities to release the bodies of four people, killed during the March 26 mayhem, without autopsies, according to a case document.

Investigators of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) have now sent an official letter to local offices of a United Nations agency, seeking information about a former employee, in connection with the gruesome murder of Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, wife of former Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul Akter.

A police probe found that instigation by outsiders, irregular payment of salaries and sanitation problems fuelled labour unrest in the SS Power I Plant in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila, leading to a clash on April 17 that left seven workers dead in police firing.

Former superintendent of police Babul Akter, plaintiff in a murder case over the killing of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in 2016, will be produced before court today after being arrested in another case filed over the same incident.

Soon after the murder of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, former Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul Akter sent Tk three lakh to prime accused Kamrul Islam Sikdar Musa via his business partner, Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) said in its final reports submitted to Chattogram Court on Wednesday.

A rape case has been filed against Jakaria Noman Fayezi, publicity secretary of the recently dissolved Hefajat-e-Islam central committee, in Chattogram, said police.