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110 gold bars recovered
OUR CORRESPONDENT, Jessore

Police recovered 110 gold bars, weighing one tola each, worth Tk4.40 crore, from a private car which had been seized in connection with a mugging case on Wednesday from Bagharpara police station here early yesterday.
Foyruddin Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Bagharpara police station, said police arrested a constable, Mizanur Rahman, of Jhikargachcha police station along with the car while he was fleeing with the mugging booty at Basindia on the Jessore-Narail road on Wednesday. On Thursday, Mizanur managed to flee from police custody. Later, three policemen including OC Kaiyum Ali Sardar, assistant sub-inspector Nasir and constable Olier Rahman were closed in the district police lines on that day on charge of negligence in duty.
During investigation of the case, a team of Bagharpara police recovered 110 gold bars from the car owned by one Touhidur Rahman around 2:30 am early yesterday. Later, police arrested Touhidur Rahman and his driver Malek in connection with the gold recovery. A case was filed in this connection.
UP chairman held with arms
Our Correspondent, Sirajganj

Police arrested a union parishad (UP) chairman in possession of one rifle, seven sharp weapons, 15 rounds of bullet, 11 pieces of Yaba tablet and eight bottles of Indian phensidyl syrup from his house at Niyogbari village in Kazipur upazila on Friday.
The arrestee was identified as Abdullah Al Mamun Ripon, 40, chairman of Shvogachha union and son of former union parishad chairman Abul Talukder.
Officer-in-charge of Kazipur police station Mizanur Rahman said tipped off, a team of police conducted a raid on the house of Ripon and arrested him in the afternoon.
Day labourer beaten mercilessly
Our Correspondent, Naogaon

A day labourer was brutally assaulted allegedly by a moneyed man at Ganipur under Akkelpur of Joypurhat yesterday. The victim was identified as Saiful, 34.
According to witnesses, Khushbu Dewan, an employee of a private organisation and also a resident of the same area, asked Saiful to work at his house on Thursday. However, Saiful could not go to Dewan’s house on that day as he was already working at someone else’s house. This made Dewan angry and on Friday he again called Saiful to come to his house for work.
An unsuspecting Saiful went to Dewan’s house on Friday morning. Saiful was taken inside a room and was beaten black and blue for the failure to work at Dewan’s house on Thursday.
Hearing Saiful scream, local people came to his aid and rescued him. He was then taken to Akkelpur Thana Health Complex. Contacted, an on-duty doctor confirmed that Saiful had several injury marks on his body and that his spine sustained severe injuries. Md Mansoor, assistant sub-inspector of Akkelpur Police Station confirmed the incident and said it was not right on part of Dewan to beat Saiful as he is a very poor man. He probed the incident and will notify his superiors about it, the policeman added.

 

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110 gold bars recovered OUR CORRESPONDENT, Jessore Police recovered 110 gold bars, weighing one tola each, worth Tk4.40 crore, from a private car which had been seized in connection with a mugging case on Wednesday from Bagharpara police station here early yesterday. Foyruddin Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Bagharpara police station, said police arrested a constable, Mizanur Rahman, of Jhikargachcha police station along with the car while he was fleeing with the mugging booty at Basindia on the Jessore-Narail road on Wednesday. On Thursday, Mizanur managed to flee from police custody. Later, three policemen including OC Kaiyum Ali Sardar, assistant sub-inspector Nasir and constable Olier Rahman were closed in the district police lines on that day on charge of negligence in duty. During investigation of the case, a team of Bagharpara police recovered 110 gold bars from the car owned by one Touhidur Rahman around 2:30 am early yesterday. Later, police arrested Touhidur Rahman and his driver Malek in connection with the gold recovery. A case was filed in this connection. UP chairman held with arms Our Correspondent, Sirajganj Police arrested a union parishad (UP) chairman in possession of one rifle, seven sharp weapons, 15 rounds of bullet, 11 pieces of Yaba tablet and eight bottles of Indian phensidyl syrup from his house at Niyogbari village in Kazipur upazila on Friday. The arrestee was identified as Abdullah Al Mamun Ripon, 40, chairman of Shvogachha union and son of former union parishad chairman Abul Talukder. Officer-in-charge of Kazipur police station Mizanur Rahman said tipped off, a team of police conducted a raid on the house of Ripon and arrested him in the afternoon. Day labourer beaten mercilessly Our Correspondent, Naogaon A day labourer was brutally assaulted allegedly by a moneyed man at Ganipur under Akkelpur of Joypurhat yesterday. The victim was identified as Saiful, 34. According to witnesses, Khushbu Dewan, an employee of a private organisation and also a resident of the same area, asked Saiful to work at his house on Thursday. However, Saiful could not go to Dewans house on that day as he was already working at someone elses house. This made Dewan angry and on Friday he again called Saiful to come to his house for work. An unsuspecting Saiful went to Dewans house on Friday morning. Saiful was taken inside a room and was beaten black and blue for the failure to work at Dewans house on Thursday. Hearing Saiful scream, local people came to his aid and rescued him. He was then taken to Akkelpur Thana Health Complex. Contacted, an on-duty doctor confirmed that Saiful had several injury marks on his body and that his spine sustained severe injuries. Md Mansoor, assistant sub-inspector of Akkelpur Police Station confirmed the incident and said it was not right on part of Dewan to beat Saiful as he is a very poor man. He probed the incident and will notify his superiors about it, the policeman added.