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| Arsonists: We did it at the behest of 'boro bhai' |
| 2015-01-31 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] Fazal Miah, a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal ...student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)... activist, received a phone call on January 20 that instructed him to set a bus on fire in his area. "You have to set a bus on fire," the order came from the other end of the mobile phone to Fazal Miah alias Sajal, 22, when he was working in his garage. "A boro bhai (big brother) named Pavel rang me," he said this while he was presented before the media at Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Media and Community Center yesterday. "He first told me that I have to do something but as I asked him about what I have to do he said I have to set alight a bus. "I told him I only know how to fix vehicles and have never ever done such a thing but he insisted. Later I went out with him about 12am on January 20 and set a bus on fire at 2am." Detective Branch of Dhaka District Police tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Fazal along with two others ‐ Khairul Islam alias Silti Khairul, 26, and Shawkat Islam, 24, ‐ for setting fire to a passenger bus in Keraniganj area, the outskirts of the capital. "Based on information, detectives arrested the three from Noadda village of Rajendrapur Bazar under Keraniganj cop shoppe early yesterday," says Habibur Rahman, superintendent of police of Dhaka. SP Habib said the arrestees are actively involved in the politics of Chhatra Dal. "On January 20, about 1:45am the arrestees set fire to the bus of Sirajdhikhan Paribahan which was parked at Rajendrapur Bus Stand of Dhaka-Mawa Highway. The driver and his assistant were sleeping inside the bus when it was put on fire but somehow they managed to escape the fire but were burnt badly, said SP Habib while briefing at the media center of DMP. Habib says that a case was filed with South Keraniganj cop shoppe against 30 named and 10 to 12 unnamed persons in connection with the arson attack. Sub-inspector Sohrab Hossain of the cop shoppe filed the case. While investigating the case, district police detectives found involvement of the three in the bus fire case and arrested them, says Habib adding that in primary interrogation the three confessed to their involvement in the bus blaze. Another arrestee Shawkat said they first poured petrol into two soft-drink bottles. "When the opportune moment came we opened a window of the bus and poured petrol before we set it on fire." "We have done this on the instruction of boro bhai," added Shawkat. About Pavel, SP Habib says Pavel Mollah is the joint convener of Chhatra Dal Tegharia Union unit under Keraniganj cop shoppe. Pavel and his younger brother Babu are involved in violence and sabotage in the area. "We are now trying to arrest Pavel," says SP Habib. "The three were placed before a court yesterday evening followed by their confessional statement before Senior Judicial Magistrate Afroza Shiuli. The three were later sent to jail, says Md Asaduzzaman, officer-in-charge of prosecution of Chief Judicial Magistrate Court. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 "You have to set a bus on fire," In my neck of the woods, we call it the Fung Wah Bus Lines. |
| Posted by: Raj 2015-01-31 12:59 |
| #3 Does that translate to Brother B. High? |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2015-01-31 11:03 |
| #2 Boro B. Hai is a cousin of Farmin B Hard |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-01-31 07:12 |
| #1 Ossifer, them roaches is belong to boro b. Hai. Srsly. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-01-31 07:10 |