Mohammad Jamil Khan

On November 25, Sagor Mahmud, a porter by profession, was waiting at Bogura Railway Station for intercity Lalmoni Express, like all other days since early morning.

A valid ticket is not enough to guarantee you a seat on the Benapole Commuter Train. You will have to pay an additional amount to touts unless you don’t mind standing all the way.

Several syndicates are smuggling firearms from India using 10 border points of Bangladesh and selling those to criminals and political goons through some legal firearm outlets.

In an attempt to dodge the law enforcers, Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has opted for an online platform that allows anonymous communication for recruiting new members, police said.

Three trans-border syndicates have been smuggling arms into Bangladesh from India using the Putkhali border point of Jashore for last five years, the Detective Branch (DB) of police yesterday claimed to have unearthed.

Mahbuba Akter Suma from Dhaka’s Bashundhara area became a friend of one Andrea Fabian, who claimed to be a Turkish national living in the UK, on Instagram last month.

Nearly a year back, 230 police officials got “in-situ promotion” as superintendent of police (SP) from their posts of additional superintendents, but they have not taken charge of office yet, as no posts are vacant in the force.

His plan was to form an online platform for radicalised youths who would be ready to work for the banned militant outfit, Ansar al Islam.

Aiming to reorganise Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islam Bangladesh, Afghan-war returnee Atikullah has been able to establish communication among 33 local leaders of the banned militant outfit in the last six months.

Top-listed fugitive criminal Zeesan Ahmed of Bangladesh was arrested Wednesday night in the UAE.

A top leader of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islam Bangladesh was attempting to reorganise the banned outfit after returning from Dubai, said CTTC officials after arresting him and two others yesterday.

The bomb that went off at an Awami League office in Khulna city on Monday is similar to the Improvised Explosive Devices used in attacks on policemen at three spots in the capital between April and August.

To dodge the law enforcers, members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) are converting their funds to Bitcoin and planning to use the cryptocurrency in the dark web to buy firearms and narcotics, police claimed.

Bangladesh Police is planning to recruit forensic sketch artists to help solve complicated cases and expedite investigation process. Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI), tasked to probe special cases, has already sent a proposal to the Police Headquarters (PHQ), seeking 40 such artists.

Members of a “Neo-JMB” cell planted improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at two spots and attacked policemen at three others in the capital in the last six months, counterterrorism officials said.

Over 23 inmates are dying every month, amid a shortage of doctors, nurses, and ambulances, and poor medical facilities in 68 prisons of the country.

With the aim of tackling militancy and solving cases with no evidence, the Police Headquarters is planning to use a state-of-the-art technology for interrogation of suspects.

Transnational syndicates are smuggling firearms from one Indian state into another through Bangladesh territory, with a border haat in Sylhet being used as a key transit route, police said.

A number of accused in the Rifat murder case yesterday vented their frustration inside and outside the courtroom, asking why local Awami League lawmaker’s son Sunam Debnath was not named in the case.

A brand new 800-member police battalion may soon be formed to deal with the rise in crimes committed by refugees from Myanmar in the 30 Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar. It would be the second such special unit in district, as one had already been approved at the end of last year.