Mar 13: Four suspected outlaws were killed and six policemen injured in a fierce "gunfight" at Laskardia village of Bhawanipur Krishnanagar Char under Pangsha upazila this (Sunday) afternoon.
| If you only wack one, it's a "crossfire". More than that falls under the classification of "gunfight". |
"The Purba Banglar Sarbohara party members opened fire on the police team, led by Pangsha OC Fazlur Rahman, as they reached the spot. The police team returned fire which left four outlaws dead on the spot," said a police officer. Two of them were identified as Abdul Quddus, 40, and Mohammad Alam, 45. Police sent all the four bodies to morgue.
Rajbari Police Super Matiur Rahman Sheikh claimed that six policemen were injured in the clash. UNB district correspondent said three injured policemen were admitted to Pansha Upazila Health Complex. Police said they recovered two guns, two cut rifles, 17 bullets and two big daggers from the scene. The law-enforcers also found some leaflets, pads and slips of the underground party.
The police team fired 86 shots during the one-and-a-half-hour-long firefight.
One chopped to death in Natore
Mar 13: A village leader was chopped to death by unknown assailants at Galgalia in Singra upazila Saturday night. Shafir Uddin, 45, was returning home from Galgalia bazaar at about 10pm when the assailants chopped him to death.
Police suspect that Shafir was murdered as a sequel to enmity. Anwar Hossain was arrested in connection with the murder.
| So, did Shafir have enmity against Anwar in the prequel, or is it the other way around? |
In another incident, Gurudaspur upazila Jubo League president Alam Sheikh was chopped and badly wounded by unknown assailants on way home Saturday night. Locals rescued him and admitted to the hospital.
Bomb hoax delays Kuwait Airways flight
A bomb hoax delayed a flight of Kuwait Airways for three hours on Sunday. The Kuwait-bound flight, which was scheduled to take off at 6:30 am, left Zia International Airport at 9:30am after a massive search.. Police, meanwhile, arrested a person from capital's Mirpur in connection with the bomb hoax. He was identified as Mahmud Hasan Chishti, an employee of Emirates airlines. Sources said that the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) detected the telephone number through caller ID system and informed police who caught Chishti.
"He was being grilled by different intelligence agencies," said a source.
| Using real grills |
A security official of Civil Aviation informed that they received an anonymous telephone call in the early morning before had started boarding passengers for the flight. "The caller claimed that a bomb had been planted on the Kuwait Airways aircraft." Following the claim, he said, departure of the flight was postponed. "It took off from ZIA after a security team thoroughly checked the aircraft," the official told the news agency.
poor mother is in jail-for no fault of her own
| Get your hankies out, this is Movie-of-the-week material |
Sherpur, Mar 13: A poor mother is in jail for the last eight years for no fault of her own, reports UNB. Kamala Begum, aged about 35, was implicated in a fabricated case that she murdered her 7-year-old son Farooq in connivance with her second husband and concealed the body. Her first husband Zulhash had filed the case shortly after she had divorced him and married Mizanur Rahman of the same village, Srirampur, in Sadar upazila in 1995. The court awarded them life imprisonment.
| With me so far? Ok, now it gets deep.... |
Recently Farooq returned home from Chandpur to the wonder of the neighbours who knew that his mother killed him. Neighbours informed him of the fate of his mother. Secretly he met with his mother in the jail. They wept and the tears of Farooq gave a cold comfort to her mother in the prison. The incident caught the eyes of jailers. Kamala and her son narrated their tragic story to the jail super and a magistrate.
They told them that Zulhash, a vagabond and addict, used to inflict mental and physical torture on Kamala. Failing to endure the repression she secured divorce from Zulhash and left behind three minor children. Feeling insecure Kamala married Mizanur Rahman, which angered Zulhash. He quietly sent Farooq to Chandpur and filed a case accusing Kamala and her second husband of murder of Farooq and concealing his body.
Additional district magistrate and jail super Mohammad Ali recorded the statement of Farooq, which along with a report was sent to the district and session''s judge. On information, the police super took Farooq to protective custody lest he should be murdered by Zulhash to save his skin. The district magistrate and jail super said they have ascertained that Kamala and Mizanur were undergoing life imprisonment for murder and concealing the body of Farooq.
But will they be set free soon?
The magistrate said it now depends on the High Court when appealed to overturn the verdict of life imprisonment. "A decision on the appeal in usual course may take more than a year," he added. But who will move the appeal in the High Court? Kamala Begum or Mizan has no relative to take the venture.
Poor Kamala, her husband Mizanur Rahman are likely to suffer in jail and son Farooq in protective custody unless and until a human rights body or a generous jurist take up the case with the High Court.