1-truck bullet case rolls after 6 yrs

Bogra, July 13 (bdnews24.com) ? After six-and a half years, a Bogra court has started recording testimonies in the case over recovery of one-truck ammunition and explosives.

Acting judge Kazi Shahina Nigar of Bogra fourth district and session's judges' court took witness statements on Wednesday and set Aug 23 for the next hearing.

According to the case statement, locals of Jogarpara village under Kahalu upazila seized a truck and looted 99,969 rounds of Chinese Rifle bullets and 174 kg explosives from it on June 23 in 2003.

Later, Dupchanchia police recovered the cache from different houses and ponds in the area, including the house of Krishak League leader Aflatur Rahman Pintu.

Bogra district judges' court acting public prosecutor (PP) Helalur Rahman said: "The witnesses on the case -- then Dupchanchia Police Station officer in-charge (OC) A F M Jabid Hossain, Mojam Mandal and Altaf Hossain were summoned by the court for testimony."

But only Mandal appeared before the court, which ordered producing the rest of the witnesses during the next hearing.

Four cases were filed in connection with the cache -- two with Kahalu police by OC Jabid and another two with Dupchanchia police by its OC Ohidul Islam.

On Sep 11 the same year, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) pressed four charge-sheets indicting six people.

The accused are Pintu, his wife Bithi, driver Altu Mia, truck owner Ashish Dev Barma amd Atikur Rahman Dulu of Tentultola area and Harun-ur-Rashid Jalal of Malotinagar.

PP Helalur said: "The High Court stayed the case proceedings on Feb 27 in 2005 following Dulu's petition."

But after recent dismissal of a review petition by Altu Mia, the proceedings of the other three cases has resumed, he said.

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Hassan grilling after Rumana returns: DB

Dhaka, June 19 (bdnews24.com) ? Hassan Syed, the husband of tormented Dhaka University teacher Rumana Monzur, will be grilled after she returns from India on Tuesday, a senior officer of the Detective Branch (DB) of police has said.

"Rumana will return on Tuesday. Syed will be quizzed after that," DB deputy commissioner Monirul Islam told bdnews24.com on Sunday.

"Though Syed admitted to the attack, we'll speak to Rumana about when and how he attacked her. The entire incident will be matched after speaking to her," he said.

The detective said Syed, who claimed to have passed out from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), had not completed his studies in the university.

"He stopped studying after completing his third year in electrical engineering department. We'll check how true his claim that he stopped studying for weakening eyesight is," he said.

"It was understood during the remand that Syed had been suffering from inferiority complex," Islam added.

Earlier, a Dhaka court granted Bahauddin Faruqi, a DB sub-inspector and the investigation officer, one day to question Syed in the attempt-to-murder case filed by the father of the victim on June 6.

Hassan, 38, was produced before the court on completion of his two-day remand.

Absconding since June 5, Hassan was arrested on June 15 after he allegedly tried to gouge her eyes out and chewed part of her nose off.

Assistant professor of international relations of Dhaka University, Rumana was taken to Chennai, India for better treatment on June 14, as doctors said the tissues of the victim's eyes had got badly ruptured in the attack.

After arrest, Hassan claimed she had an affair with an Iranian, whom Rumana met while studying in Canada.

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