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4 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2017 DT News MP LITON MURDER Quader admits jealousy was motive • Kamrul Hasan and Tazul Islam Reza, Gaibandha Former Gaibandha lawmaker Jatiya Party leader Col (rtd) Abdul Quader Khan has told police he was overcome with jealousy and depression after his defeat against MP Manjurul Islam Liton, which led to him plotting the man’s murder. He was so blinded by the thirst of power that he even planned to kill Shamim Patwary, the man nominated by his party to contest the by-election. During interrogation, Quader, a physician by profession, told the police that he had become isolated and grew depressed since Liton was elected as the lawmaker of Gaibandha 1 in the 2013 polls. Quader, a native of Bogra, was elected from the seat in 2008 but did not get the Grand Alliance’s ticket in ‘13. He ran independently but lost sorely to Liton. He told police he was convinced that his defeat was due to the four corruption cases filed against him by the Anti-corruption Commission, which he attributed to Liton’s conspiring. He was so depressed that homicidal and suicidal tendencies grew in him, he said in interrogation. The sources said police officials were tense while he was in custody because of his mood and the former MP was kept under close watch. On Saturday police asked him to make a confession. He was told that four of his associates had already given confessional statements. In the afternoon Quader agreed to confessing. Police sources said investigators were surprised by his docile attitude. Small error laid the case open Law enforcers are saying the investigation has gained momentum since the confessions of the mastermind and the assassins were obtained. they are expecting to gear up their investigation and the persons who reconnoitered Liton’s home and the vicinity along with the alleged informer Chandan Kumar Roy could be traced very soon. Police said Quader selected the three killers belonging from such a society who could do anything for money. In the confessional statement Quader claimed that he had been planning the murder for six months but did not succeed before. However, police said from the others’ confessional statements and their investigation they had learned that the plan had been cooking for not less than a year. Law enforcers said solving the case would have been more difficult if the three assassins did not make a mistake. In December, the three were roaming around together in Sundarganj where MP Liton was scheduled to go but he did not go there that day and stayed in Dhaka instead. After failing that attempt, they decided to do some mugging instead. They snatched the mobile phone of a young boy named Fahim, a neighbour of Liton. However, they left a magazine full of bullets there. This magazine was from a gun registered to Quader’s name. Police then tracked and tapped the boy’s phone and soon found Quader having conversations with the killers on it. An senior police official said the three were not acquainted with Quader personally. An associate of Quader took them to him. Police is currently in search of those associates and those who helped Chandan Kumar Roy and his associates. A source said Chandan was suspected to be hiding in India. The three killers - Mohammad Shahin, Mehedi Hasan and Anarul Islam Rana - after ensuring that MP Liton is staying home that day, started for Gaibandha from Bogra in Quader’s microbus. After reaching Sundarganj, they took a motorbike in Chaprahati. After reaching Dhoabadanga they loitered at the kitchen market in the area and when Chandan told them to come to the MP’s home they went there and shot MP Liton. Soon after the killing the three went back to Chaprahati immediately and after returning to Bogra, gave back the guns to Quader and left. They went to Dhaka through Bogra by bus that day. Liton stayed in India through Benapole landport on October 19 and stayed there till January 6, in order to have an alibi. But he came back and forth through the border secretly two or three times. He last came back in this manner on December 31, on the day of the murder, to ensure the success of the mission. •
HC questions legality of article 95, 116 • Ashif Islam Shaon Four sentenced to 10-years for Jihad’s death • Ashif Islam Shaon Four Bangladesh Railway officials were found guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment in a case filed over the tragic death of the 4-year old Jihad, yesterday. Fifth Special Judges Court pronounced that it undoubtedly found Bangladesh Railway Senior Sub-Assistant Engineer Jahangir Alam and Assistant Engineers Md Nasir Uddin and Md Zafar Ahmed Shaki and SR House contractor and Proprietor Md Shafiqul Islam guilty under section 304 of penal code of culpable homicide and also fined them Tk2 lakh each. • The High Court in a ruling questioned the legality of article 95 that give the president the authority to appoint Supreme Court judges and article 116 that controls the appointment and posting of lower court judges, yesterday. The ruling was issued by High Court bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah. The government, the secretaries to the cabinet division, law, president’s office and the registrar general of Supreme Court have been asked to explain within four weeks why the constitutional provisions should not be declared illegal. The ruling was made after a writ petition was filed on November 3, 2016 by a Supreme Court lawyer Eunus Ali Akond questioning the legality of articles 48(3), 95, 98, 115 and 116. In the writ petition, he challenged the fourth amendment made in 1975 and the fifteenth amendment to the articles 95(1) and B of 95(2), and 116 which was made in 2011. He said that the articles were not the same as the ones in constitution of 1972. The amendments were contradictory to the article 109. In article 116 of the 1972 constitution, lower court judges’ appointment, posting and code of conduct were controlled by the Supreme Court. The fifteen amendment did not restore the power to the Supreme Court, though in 2011 through the Fifteenth amendment the Awami League restored the four fundamental principles of the constitution. The lawyer in the petition, also said according to article 95 a law is supposed to govern how Supreme Court judges are appointed but that law was never formed. “In the 1972 constitution the Supreme Court had the whole control of the lower courts according to the article 116 which in the fourth amendment was given to the President. “There should be a law to appoint Supreme Court’s judges. But the law is yet to be framed. The whole judge appointment process is contradictory to the constitution,” Eunus Ali said. Last year in October Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha in a message marking the ninth anniversary of the separation of the judiciary had said that the Article 116 should be restored. • News 5 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2017 DT TEMPERATURE FORECAST FOR TODAY THUNDERSHOWER WITH RAIN MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Dhaka 32 15 Chittagong 30 18 Rajshahi 32 12 Rangpur 30 14 Khulna 33 15 Barisal 33 16 Sylhet 30 13 DHAKA TODAY TOMORROW SUN SETS 6:00PM SUN RISES 6:23AM YESTERDAY’S HIGH AND LOW 32.0ºC 10.0ºC Patuakhali Srimangal Source: Accuweather/UNB PRAYER TIMES Cox’s Bazar 30 19 Fajr: 5:50am | Zohr: 1:15pm Asr: 4:45pm | Magrib: 6:10pm Esha: 8:00pm Source: Islamic Foundation
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