DT e-Paper, Friday, Decdember 20, 2017

News 7
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017
Police prevent
Jubo Dal from
bringing out
procession
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A poor woman seen collecting garbage in Pashuhat area under Rajshahi City Corporation. The picture was taken yesterday
AZAHAR UDDIN
• Tanveer Hossain,
Narayanganj
Police prevented leaders and activists
of the Jubo Dal, the youth front of the
BNP, while they brought out a procession
in Narayanganj city marking the
81st birth anniversary of late president
Ziaur Rahman.
According to local sources, hundreds
of leaders and activists gathered
in front of party office located in Mondolpara
area of Narayanganj city around
11am. Then, police personnel went to
the spot and snatched festoons and
banners from party activists, resulting a
scuffle between police and BNP men.
Professor Toimur Alam Khandakar,
district unit president of BNP,
Anwar Hossain Khan, joint secretary
general, Jahangir Alam, city unit BNP
president, Hasan Ahmed, organising
secretary of city unit BNP, Maksudul
Alam Khandakar, convenor of city unit
BNP and Rana Mujib, joint convenor
of city unit BNP, among others, were
present at the gathering.
After the scuffle, Toimur Alam said:
“We are ready to die to bring back
democracy to the country.”
Maksudul Alam Khandakar said:
“Police swooped on our peaceful programme
without any provocation.”
OC of Narayanganj Sadar police
station told the Dhaka Tribune that they
prevented the BNP men from bringing
out a procession as they did not take any
permission from district administration. •
Abducted two missing
ruling party leaders
return home safely
• Tazul Islam Reza, Gaibandha
Two of the four political leaders
and activists who went missing
around 10 days back from Gaibandha
amid tension centring MP Liton
murder returned home on Wednesday
night.
They are Monowarul Hasan Jim
Mandal, 40, senior assistant general
secretary of Sadullapur Awami
Jubo League, and former Damodarpur
UP chairman Sadekul Islam
Sadek, 35.
A microbus dropped them
along with their motorcycle near
Nilphamari’s Syedpur town around
12pm.
Jim Mandal’s wife Lovely
said: “My husband called me
around midnight saying that he
was dropped near Syedpur town.
Later, he reached home on his motorcycle.
“But he wished not to disclose
immediately who abducted them.”
Hundreds of people, including
local Awami League leaders,
thronged Jim’s house since early
yesterday on information of his return.
Relatives now hope that two
more missing leaders – Maidul
Islam Prince, 30, publication secretary
of Naldanga unit Awami
League, and Shafiul Islam Shapla,
32, assistant secretary general of
Naldanga unit BNP – will also return
home safely.
Earlier, families of the missing
persons filed complaints with
Sadullahpur police after their alleged
disappearances.
Panic stricken locals and relatives
enforced hartal, strike and
formed human chain, demanding
whereabouts of the missing politicians
and activists.
Gaibandha’s Sundarganj lawmaker
Manjurul Islam Liton was
shot inside his Sundorganj Masterpara
home by armed assailants on
December 31. He died at Rangpur
Medical College Hospital after several
hours.
Over 80 people including leaders
of Jamaat-e-Islami and AL’s
affiliated bodies have been questioned
over the murder.
Officer-in-Charge of Sadullahpur
police station Farhad Imrul
Kayes told the Dhaka Tribune that
they were informed about the return
of the abducted persons. ‘
He, however, said they did not
know whoever dropped them from
the microbus.
He said: “We are trying to
find out the two other missing
persons.” •
Tonu killers still at large,
investigators keep mum
• Mohiuddin Molla, Comilla
Tenth months have passed since
the killing of Sohagi Jahan Tonu, a
student of Comilla Victoria College
and threatre activist, but law enforcement
agencies yet to find any
headway in the killing case.
Moreover, the Criminal Investigation
Department (CID) which has
been entrusted with the investigation
of the sensational killing case
is preferring to keep mum, making
victim’s parents more frustrated.
Rasheda Akter, president of
Comilla Nari Unnayan Forum, told
the Dhaka Tribune that the authorities
concerned seemed reluctant
to find out the killers of Tonu.
“If Tonu’s family gets justice
women repression will be reduced
in Bangladesh. We are demanding
justice for Tonu.”
Anwara Begum, mother of Tonu,
said: “Killers of many sensational
killing cases have been brought to
the book. But Tonu’s killers are still
at large. Are Tonu’s killers so influential
that law enforcement agencies
do not dare to nab them?”
Investigation Officer of the case
and also Assistant Police Super of
Comilla CID Jamal Uddin said: “Investigation
of the case is going on. We will
not make any comment about a case
which is still under investigation.”
Tonu, 19, a second-year student
of history department, was allegedly
raped and murdered inside
Mainamati Cantonment in Comilla
on March 20.
Yaar Ali filed a case with Cantonment
police station the following day.
On March 28, a court ordered
the exhumation of Tonu’s body for
a fresh autopsy.
Tonu’s body was exhumed in
April, then investigators said they
would conclude the case immediately.
On June 7, the Criminal Investigative
Department handed over
the DNA report to the medical
board assigned to conduct second
autopsy of Tonu.
The second autopsy neither determined
the cause of Tonu’s death
nor confirmed if she was raped, but
found evidence of ‘intercourse’ before
death.
The first post-mortem examination
on Tonu which was disclosed
on April 5 had found no evidence
that she had been raped before being
killed and also failed to determine
the cause behind her death.
Tonu’s parents rejected both the
autopsy reports, saying they were
full of wrong information. •