Police-investigation

The man who was tied to a pole on allegations of attempting to steal has been released after a video of the incident went viral. Police said local residents released the man after taking a written undertaking from him. On Saturday morning, the man’s young daughter came to see her father who had been tied up. She thought her father was hungry. So, the girl bought tea and bread from a nearby shop and fed her father with her own hands. A young man recorded the scene and posted the video on Facebook...

Morshed Alam Tanem was a student of Ahmed Bawani Academy in Armanitola. On June 30 last year, he was seriously injured in a stabbing in the area under Chawkbazar Police Station in the capital. Despite receiving treatment, Tanem died at the hospital. At the time, it was claimed that robbers had stabbed him while trying to snatch his mobile phone. However, a year later, a shocking detail emerged during the investigation. After completing the investigation, a report was submitted to the court...

The recovery of six bodies from separate locations in Jamalpur within a span of 10 days has raised concern among local residents. The bodies were recovered from different locations in Jamalpur city and Madarganj upazila between August 23 and September 1. The deceased include two housewives, a college student, a teenage girl, a scrap metal trader and a nurse. Questions have arisen over the incidents as the causes of several deaths have yet to be confirmed. Police said each incident is bein...

Four passengers were killed and two others injured after a pickup van overturned in Rangamati. The accident occurred around 6:00 am Sunday in front of the Manikchhari Army Camp in Sadar upazila. The deceased were Meghrani Chakma, Shantana Chakma, Shobha Chakma and Shanti Ranjan Chakma. Locals said a pickup van was traveling from Rangamati town toward Kutukchhari Market. When it reached the Manikchhari area, the vehicle overturned. Three people died at the scene. Among the injured, pickup...

After the ‘umbrella bomb’ found in Dhaka, a ‘pressure cooker’ bomb has now been found inside a bag left in front of a shop in Ashulia. A bomb disposal team from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) went to the scene and defused it. Although the bomb was found Thursday night, Ashulia Police Station Officer in Charge (OC) Tarikul Islam confirmed the incident at around 3 pm Friday. A case has also been filed under the Explosives Act at Ashulia Police Station. Police said a masked man came to...

Miscreants hurled a petrol bomb onto the road beneath the metro rail station at Shapla Chattar in Motijheel, the capital. Another unexploded bomb was recovered from the scene. The petrol bomb was thrown on Friday night. However, no casualties were immediately reported. Meanwhile, police and members of the Bomb Disposal Unit arrived at the scene. They are collecting evidence and working at the site.Eyewitnesses said, “A loud explosion was suddenly heard on the road beneath the metro statio...

An excavator was used to partially demolish the house of Mizanur Rahman Lavlu Kazi, president of the Madhabkhali Union Awami League and chairman of the union parishad, in Mirzaganj of Patuakhali. Miscreants later looted belongings from the house before setting it on fire. The incident took place around 12:30 am Friday beside Kathaltali Bazar in Mirzaganj upazila of Patuakhali. The owner of the house, Mizanur Rahman Lavlu Kazi, is the president of the Madhabkhali Union Awami League in the...

The door of a residential hotel room was locked from the inside. The lifeless body of a young man was hanging from the ceiling fan, while the body of a young woman lay motionless on the bed. Seeing the scene, everyone initially believed that the young man had committed suicide after killing the woman over a romantic dispute. After nearly 10 months of investigation, local police also reached the same conclusion. However, some silent clues at the crime scene seemed to tell a different story...