Crime
Missing businessman’s body found buried in Lalbagh
Police recovered the buried body of a businessman in Lalbagh early Friday (September 11), two days after he went missing, in a case believed to have stemmed from a dispute over a Tk 300,000 loan.
Youth found dead on Jatrabari road
Police recovered the bloodied body of a young man from a roadside in the Santek area of Jatrabari on Friday morning (September 11), with a stab wound found on his chest.
39 litres of foreign liquor seized from bags of 7 passengers of same flight
Customs intelligence officers have seized 39 litres of foreign liquor from the bags of seven passengers who arrived in Dhaka on the same Air India flight from Mumbai of India. The estimated market value of the seized liquor is Tk 7 lakh 70 thousand.
Housewife's hanging body recovered in Lalbagh
Police have recovered the hanging body of a housewife, identified as Touhida Hossain Tisha, from a house in Lalbagh in Old Dhaka of the capital. Her relatives have alleged that she was killed and her body was hung afterwards in an attempt to portray the incident as suicide.
DMP arrests 577 in 24-hour Dhaka crime crackdown
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 577 people in a 24-hour anti-crime drive across the capital, filing 40 cases during the operation, police said on Wednesday (September 9).
1,655 mobile phones hidden in fabric rolls seized at Hazrat Shahjalal Airport
Customs, intelligence agency and security agency officials have seized 1,655 expensive mobile phones after an attempt was detected to bring a large number of mobile phones inside fabric rolls by declaring import of garments fabric. The seizure was made during a drive in the import cargo area of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
DMP arrests 502, files 71 cases in 24-hour drive
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 502 people in regular drives across the capital in the last 24 hours, while 71 cases were filed at various police stations during this period.
SB SI murder: 'Drug-addict killers became more aggressive knowing about victim's profession'
A Special Branch (SB) sub-inspector, Altab Hossain, was beaten to death in Aminbazar, Savar, Dhaka, over the parking of an auto-rickshaw. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said the attackers were under the influence of drugs at the time of the incident.
Qatar expatriate stabbed to death in Sabujbagh
A Bangladeshi expatriate who recently returned from Qatar was hacked to death by a group of assailants at a residential building at Sabujbagh in Dhaka on Sunday afternoon (September 6).
SI Altaf killed for protesting assault on garage owner: RAB
Sub-Inspector Altaf Hossain, 58, of the Police Special Branch (SB) was killed because he protested the beating of an elderly garage owner, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has said. The incident was not a premeditated attack targeting him as a police officer but escalated from a spontaneous altercation, RAB officials said at a press conference on Monday, September 7.