Crime

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…