e_Paper, Monday, May 8, 2017

60-year-old
rapes mentallychallenged
woman
• Zahirul Islam Khan, Madaripur
A mentally-challenged woman has
been raped by an elderly man in
Kalkini upazila of Madaripur.
The 22-year-old victim , who is
also speech-impaired, was admitted
to Madaripur Sadar Hospital yesterday
with critical injuries.
Police have detained local Union
Parishad Member Salam Hawlader
as he helped the culprit flee.
Kalachan Hawlader, 60, of Kornopara
area of the upazila, raped
the neighbour Saturday afternoon
when she was home alone, Officerin-Charge
Emdadul Haq of Dasar
police station said. Locals came to
her rescue hearing her scream.
As the victim’s physical condition
started to deteriorate in the
night, she was taken to the hospital
around 12:20am. •
News 7
MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017
Adivasi students demand end to murders in CHT
• Tribune Desk
Students belonging to indigenous
communities demonstrated in
Khagrachhari town yesterday demanding
justice for the killings of
Romel Chakma, Sadikul Islam and
Eti Chakma.
They brought out a procession
under the banner of Socialist Students’
Front (SSF) in the afternoon,
and held a rally.
Starting from Shapla Chhattar,
the procession paraded important
streets of the town before ending at
Muktomoncho.
SSF Khagrachhari unit President
Kabir Hossain and its General
Secretary Arindam Krishna Dey,
among others, addressed the rally.
Apart from demanding fair trial
in the killings of the three youths,
the student leaders urged the government
to stop persecution across
Dinajpur boiler blast victims compensated
• Bipul Sarker Sunny, Dinajpur
The government has distributed
compensation money among the
family members of the workers who
died and got injured in the deadly
boiler blast at Jamuna Auto Rice
Mill in Dinajpur’s Raniganj area.
State Minister for Labour and
Employment Md Mujibul Haque
disbursed Tk50,000 among each of
the families of the 17 dead and four
injured workers at the district deputy
commissioner’s office yesterday.
The deceased’s families get another
Tk175,000 within May 25.
Bangladesh Sramik Kalyan
Foundation funded the entire
amount of the compensation.
Labour and Employment Secretary
Mikail Shipar and Dinajpur Deputy
Commissioner Mir Khairul Alam
the country carried out law enforcement
agencies.
Romel, general secretary of Naniarchar
upazila unit Pahari Chhatra
Parishad (PCP), was picked up
by some army personnel on April
5. He died while undergoing treatment
at Chittagong Medical College
Hospital on April 19.
The body of Sadikul Islam, a
20-year-old for-hire motorcycle
driver from Khagrachhari, was recovered
from Naniarchar area of
Rangamati on April 13, three days
after he was abducted. Bangali
groups have blamed United People’s
Democratic Front (UPDF) for
the murder.
On the other hand, the throatslit
body of Eti Chakma, 18, a second-year
student of Khagrachhari
Government College, was found at
her house in Arambagh area in the
town on February 27. •
Indigenous Santal
community people
of Gobindaganj in
Gaibandha form a
human chain in the
town yesterday
demanding their land
back and justice for
the killings of three
adivasis during an
eviction drive by the
police and RAB on
November 6 last year
DHAKA TRIBUNE
were present during the programme.
At least 28 people were injured
after the boiler exploded on April 19.
The latest death was reported
on May 1 when one injured worker
succumbed to injuries at Rangpur
Medical College Hospital.
Police, however, have failed to
arrest anyone in connection with
the case filed against three people
including the mill owner.•
Seven-murder
appeal hearing
to start soon
• Ashif Islam Shaon
DT
The appeal hearing in the muchtalked
cases of Narayanganj seven
murders is likely to start soon as
the paper books reached the High
Court from the Bangladesh Government
Press yesterday.
The documents of the two cases
will be placed before Chief Justice
Surendra Kumar Sinha next week
who may assign a bench to hear the
appeals filed by the 26 death-row
convicts, and the death references
by the state. •
Chehlum of Saleha
Shairf held
• Tribune Desk
The Chehlum
of Saleha
Shairf, wife
of late Prof Dr
Ahmed Sharif,
a free thinker,
educationist
and former chairman of Bangla department
at Dhaka University, was
held yesterday evening at Shimanto
Square auditorium in Dhanmondi.
Among others, Dr Sirajul Islam
Chowdhury, Dr Abul Kashem Fazlul
Haque, Dr Ahmed Kabir, Dr
Mansur Musa, Hasan Fakri, relatives,
friends and admirers of the
deceased attended the programme.
Saleha Sharif died of cardiac arrest
at the city’s United Hospital on
March 29 at the age of 87. •