Report in Dhaka Tribune, Apr 30, 2017 at 11.09pm The number of converted Muslim youths being radicalised is increasing day by day. Some of them have joined banned militant outfits JMB and Ansarullah, who are responsible for the recent targeted killings across the country, detectives say. During the recent raids, law enforcers busted several militant dens set up by such converted youths to teach how to operate arms and make explosives. Regarding the link between…
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Report in The daily Star, May 2, 2017 Police today claimed to have arrested a top IT expert of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) in Bhatara of Dhaka. Md Ashfaq-Ur-Rahman Ayon alias Arif alias Anik, the chief of information technology section of ABT, was arrested by members of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime ( CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) last night, according to an SMS floated to the media this morning.…
Report in Dhaka Tribune, May 2, 2017 ‘Natun Somoy’ Executive Editor Ahmed Razu has been accused of running fabricated news reports The executive editor of the online newspaper “Natun Somoy” has been arrested after the Walton Group accused him of tarnishing the company’s image by deliberately running fabricated reports. Ahmed Razu was arrested from his Segunbagicha office on Sunday night, police’s Ramna zone Deputy Commissioner Maruf Hasan Sardar told the Dhaka Tribune on Monday. Razu…
The Daily Star report, May 1, 2017 Khulna: A Khulna court yesterday sent an officer-in-charge of Patiya Police Station of Chittagong, who was closed to the police lines, to jail after he surrendered to it in a case filed for torturing his wife mentally and physically. Rafayut Ullah Choudhury, was closed after his wife Nasrin Akhter Ruma filed the case on January 18. On March 7, the court issued an arrest warrant against him. Ruma…
Dhaka Tribune report, April 30, 2017 Pahari Chhatra Parishad (PCP) has claimed that its Panchhari upazila unit President Jewel Chakma was picked up by some army personnel Saturday night. Panchhari police station Officer-in-Charge Abdul Jabbar acknowledged Jewel’s detention, and said that the army were conducting drives in different areas with him. The OC added that Jewel had two extortion cases filed against him with the police station. The detention came amid protests over the death…
by Md Anwar Hossain Choudhury in Dhaka Tribune, April 28, 2017 Law enforcement officials concluded Operation Eagle Hunt on Thursday, after four militants blew themselves up at the militant hideout in Shibnagar village under Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj. Rajshahi Range DIG Khurshid Hossain announced the successful completion of the operation during a press briefing at 6:45pm. He was accompanied by SWAT Deputy Commissioner Proloy Kumar Joarder and Chapainawabganj Police Superintendent Mujahidul Islam. SWAT resumed the…
by Nadim Hossain in Dhaka Tribune, April 28, 2017 The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained three members of a new faction of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB) from Savar with firearms and bomb-making materials. One of the detainees is identified as Tamim Dwari. RAB 8 Company Commander Major Abdul Hakim said: “Acting on a tip-off, we searched a bus of Village Line when it reached Fulbaria bus stand area and detained…
Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have arrested an improvised explosive device (IED) expert of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in the capital’s Uttara early yesterday. Mushfiqur Rahman Jeni, 28, belonged to JMB’s “Sarwar-Tamim Group” and was working on producing remote-controlled IEDs, said Jahangir Hossain Matubbar, commanding officer of Rab-10, at a press briefing at Rab media centre in Karwan Bazar. Son of a late civil engineer of Comilla’s Burichang, Mushfiqur got admitted to computer science and…
by Md Anwar Hossain Choudhury & Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune online, April 27, 2017 Law enforcers cordoned off a suspected militant hideout in Shibnagar village under Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Wednesday 9:10am (Thursday): Fresh gunshots heard as Operation Eagle Hunt resumes, reports our correspondent Md Anwar Hossain Choudhury from the spot. Key points from the press briefing on Wednesday: April 26, 2017 -Deputy Commissioner Proloy Kumar Joarder says that Operation Eagle…
report in Prothom Alo, Apr 26, 2017 at 17:06 hrs BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir suggested that the government approach the United Nations to realise Bangladesh’s share of river Teesta’s water from India. He raised the proposal at the launch of a book on Ziaur Rahman organised by the Ziaur Rahman Research Council at the Dhaka Reporters’ Unity auditorium on Wednesday. Mirza Fakhrul said the government could not be thanks as it failed…
by Kamrul Hasan in Dhaka Tribune, April 26, 2017 Bangladeshi citizens living or working abroad are actively involved in a number of abduction rackets that target other Bangladeshi migrants, according to police. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has received several abduction and ransom complaints from the families of the victims in the past few months, said Molla Nazrul Islam, special superintendent (organised crime) at the CID. “In the last five or six months,…