Crime

The hanging body of a housewife has been recovered in Homna, Comilla. Her parents alleged that her husband and family members killed and hanged their daughter. They declared the incident a suicide and later fled the house. The deceased Samantha Akhtar (19) is the wife of Shipon Mia of Nayakandi village in the upazila and the daughter of Abbas Mia of the same village. Police recovered Samantha's hanging body from her in-laws' house in Nayakandi village last Friday night. According to local sources, Samantha got married to Shipon Mia as a family about 9 months ago. After the marriage, Samantha started fighting with her in-laws. Physical and mental torture continued on her. After the recovery of Samantha's body…

Apurba Pal, a student expelled from the capital's North South University, has confessed to the charges of insulting the Quran. On Sunday (October 19), the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md. Sefatullah recorded his statement. He was then sent to jail. At that time, the accused voluntarily agreed to give a confessional statement. Then, the investigation officer of the case, Bhatara Police Station Sub-Inspector Chand Mia, applied to record his statement. Earlier, the court granted him a five-day remand on October 14. On the night of October 4, several videos went viral on Facebook, in which various posts alleged that Apurba Pal had insulted the Quran. The student's Facebook post…

In Bhola's Char Fashion, BNP and its affiliated organizations have been accused of occupying children's maktabs and using them as political offices. The maktab house is located in Aminpur village of Char Kukri-Mukri union of the upazila. According to multiple local sources, there is a maktab house adjacent to the Kakrail Jame Mosque near the market in Aminpur village. It was built about 10 years ago with the help of UNDP and Muslim Aid. Since the beginning, the mosque's imam and muezzin have been using the house as a maktab house to teach the Quran to children and adolescents. Occasionally, officials and employees of the government's 'One House, One Farm' project used to hold meetings in the maktab house during the day. After the fall of the Awami government in August last year, the local BNP and...

Police have arrested three people in a case filed against them for raising Awami League slogans in Anwara, Chittagong. The incident of raising slogans took place last Thursday. Three people were arrested from different areas of Juidandi Union of the upazila that night. A case was filed on Friday in this incident. Their arrests are shown in the case. The arrested people are Abdul Quader (50), Arif (20) and Abdul Khalek (28) of Juidandi. Police said that 20 wooden sticks, 10 brick piles, two locally made iron bars and eight pieces of iron were seized at that time. Earlier, a 41-second video circulating on social media showed some people wearing lungis chanting 'Joy Bangla, Joy Bangabandhu', 'Sheikh Hasina's...

The hanging body of a female media worker has been recovered from a house in the capital. She was an employee of the new online media outlet Dhaka Stream. Her body was reportedly recovered on Saturday evening. Imaul Haque, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of the capital's Sher-e-Banglanagar Police Station, told Prothom Alo that the woman's family members broke down the door of the house and rescued her and took her to a private hospital. The police recovered her body from the hospital yesterday and prepared an autopsy report. It will be known after the autopsy how she died. Her family has not yet filed a complaint with the police station. The woman was working as a graphic designer at the online media outlet Dhaka Stream. Recently, Dhaka Stream...

Acting on a tip-off, law enforcement agencies raided the offices of Oxying (www.oxying.com), a web business located in the City Heart of Dhaka’s Naya Paltan, and arrested the owner, Faruk Siddique, on charges of aiding in the creation and hosting of websites that spread blasphemous and propaganda material. Law enforcement agencies said that during the raid, they discovered websites created and hosted by Oxying that were already under separate investigation for clients. Following the raid, several of these sites – optamic.com, search70.com and bengaljournal.com – have been taken offline, officials confirmed. Faruk Siddique, who is on bail, is barred from web development or hosting activities until the investigation is concluded.

A joint operation by the Coast Guard and the Navy has arrested an associate of the notorious robbers of the Sundarbans, Choton Bahini, along with weapons and ammunition. Coast Guard Media Officer Lieutenant Commander Siam-ul-Haq gave this information on Tuesday morning. Based on secret information, it was learned that the notorious robbers of the Sundarbans, Choton Bahini, were preparing to commit a robbery in the Khashitana Canal area adjacent to the Raynadi River in Koyra, Khulna district. Based on the information received, the Coast Guard station and the Navy contingent conducted a joint operation in the area on Monday. During the operation, the expeditionary team chased the robbers and arrested an associate of the Choton Bahini along with a single-barrel gun, two rounds of live cartridges and three rounds of blank cartridges. Initial interrogation revealed that…

Law enforcement agencies have identified a controversial cleric named Md. Soleiman Mia, who is accused of publishing blasphemous content on his website www.whatshoulddo.com. Authorities confirmed that Mia is currently abroad and is wanted for serious arrestable offenses under existing Bangladeshi law that do not require an arrest warrant. The controversy began when Soleiman Mia’s articles questioned the authenticity of the hadith regarding the marriage of Aisha to the Prophet, which he blamed for child marriages and their sexual abuse. He was also accused of saying that the silence in Islamic texts enabled the systematic sexual abuse of boys, especially in madrasas…