Launch Capsize: Case filed against unnamed
Govt bodies concerned ‘not IDing’ the other vessel involved
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Our Correspondent, N’ganj
Our Correspondent, N’ganj
Government bodies concerned are apparently not identifying the bulk carrier that rammed a passenger launch in the Shitalakkhya in Narayanganj on Sunday killing 34 people.
Around 60 hours after the accident, an official of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority yesterday filed a case with Bandar Police Station accusing unnamed persons. Names of the cargo vessel and its owner could not be known. So, the case has been filed against unnamed persons. Now, police will trace the cargo vessel and its owner, said Babu Lal Baidya, assistant director of BIWTA at Narayanganj Launch Terminal, who lodged the case.
Birth on the sidewalk: CTG police rescue homeless woman and her newborn Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
On the sidewalks of a street in Chattogram early this morning, a pregnant woman was groaning because of labour pain.
Finding no assistance, she gave birth to her baby at 7:30am on the sidewalk at Army Embarkation area under Bandar Police Station.
According to locals, the woman is homeless and suffers from mental illness, reports our Chattogram correspondent.
Aman Ullah, assistant sub-inspector of the station, saw the mother and her newborn on the sidewalk when he was approaching the station after finishing his shift.
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AL leader’s son among two remanded for assaulting judge in Ctg Star Online Report Star Online Report
Two men, including the son of a local Awami League leader, were today placed on three-day remands each in a case filed over physically assaulting a judge in Chattogram.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mohiuddin Murad passed the order today after police produced the accused Ali Akbar Iqbal, son of AL leader Hazi Iqbal of the city s Badar area, and his friend Hasan Ali Jishan before the court asking for four-day remands, said Kazi Shahabuddin Ahmed, assistant commissioner (prosecution) of CMP.
According to the case statement, on Wednesday evening, Ali Akbar Iqbal and Hasan Ali Jishan physically assaulted Chattogram s Joint District and Session Judge Jahir Hossain when he protested the duo s driving their motorcycle on the wrong side of the road in Patenga s Outer Ring Road area.