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Former Member of Parliament from Chattogram-3 (Sandwip) constituency Mahfuzur Rahman Mita has been arrested by the Gulshan Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Detective Branch (DB). He was arrested from the Gulshan 2 area of the capital at around 1:30 am on Tuesday. Deputy Commissioner (DC) of the DB Gulshan Division A F M Anwar Hossain Khan confirmed the arrest on Tuesday. He said a raid was conducted at House 29 on Road 43 in the Gulshan 2 area on Monday night based on secret i...

Investigators said no evidence of sabotage or any other motive was found in the theft of the wire connecting Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s red telephone at the Secretariat. Officials said the incident appeared to be a simple case of theft after questioning the accused and analyzing various information, evidence and forensic materials. After completing the investigation into the case filed over the incident, the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of the Dhaka Metropol...

Police recovered the body of a 25-year-old woman named Ianur Begum from under a bed at a house in Kadamtali in the capital. She had told her mother about an argument with her husband the previous night. The next morning, her younger brother went to the house and found the door locked from outside. After breaking the lock and entering the room, he saw blood stains and then found Ianur’s bloodied body under the bed. The victim’s husband Jewel has been missing since the incident. Police reco...

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained 23 people from a mosque in Tejgaon in the capital on suspicion of militancy. They were arrested at around 4:15 pm Friday. Ibn Mizan, deputy commissioner (DC) of the DMP’s Tejgaon division, told Agamir Somoy that they were detained after police conducted a raid based on intelligence that a secret meeting was taking place at the mosque. A senior DMP official claimed that the detainees are active members of the banned organisation ‘Iftihadul Al Islam...

Miscreants carried out a cocktail explosion in Malibagh in the capital. The incident occurred in front of Fortune Shopping Mall in Malibagh after Friday prayers on Friday (September 18). However, no casualties were reported in the incident. Additional Commissioner Jahid of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Motijheel Division confirmed the cocktail explosion.

A woman named Rehena Akter (40), called the National Emergency Service 999 in Dhaka’s Sabujbagh and reported that she had killed her husband. Police later arrested her. Rehena Akter called 999 from a neighborhood near Nandipara Boro Mosque at around 12:00 pm on Thursday, September 3. The information was disclosed in a press release signed by Police Inspector Anwar Sattar, media and public relations officer of the National Emergency Service 999. The press release said the woman claimed ove...

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch (DB) has arrested five members of an organized gang that had allegedly been carrying out lobbying and fraud for a long time by forging the seals, signatures and official letterheads of the prime minister, ministers, state ministers, members of parliament, secretaries and other senior government officials. According to DMP officials, the gang did not stop at producing forged documents. They also allegedly copied the prime minister’s ‘priority’...

Members of the banned Awami League and its affiliated organizations staged a flash rally in Mohakhali, Dhaka, on Thursday. Several cocktails were detonated during the procession, prompting police action that led to the detention of three people, including a woman. The detainees were identified as Mi...