Arrest of Rozina: case handed over to detectives
Rozina Islam was confined to the health ministry inside the Secretariat for more than five hours before being handed over to Shahbagh Police Station on Monday night. Photo: Collected Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
Detectives have been tasked with the investigation of a case filed against Prothom Alo senior reporter Rozina Islam, who is in jail now.
Ramna Division, Detective Branch of Police is now investigating the case as it was handed over to them this morning, Mamun ur Rashid, officer-in-charge of Shahbagh Police Station, told The Daily Star.
Rozina was confined to the health ministry inside the Secretariat for more than five hours before being handed over to Shahbagh Police Station on Monday night.
Targeting users in upscale neighbourhoods, organised syndicates have been smuggling in high-priced crystal meth over the last few years, much to the concern of law enforcers and narcotics control officials.
The highly addictive drug, also nicknamed ice, arrives in Bangladesh from Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar, and the syndicates often use expatriates travelling back home as carriers, according to investigators.
At least two to three consignments of the drug, each weighing around 0.5kg-1.5kg, have arrived every month over the last three years through the country s various airports, mostly from Malaysia.
It is sold to affluent people living in upscale neighborhoods 10g at minimum Tk 1 lakh, said Detective Branch officials.
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Detectives claimed to have arrested five alleged muggers in connection with killing cable operator businessman Hamidul Islam near High Court in Dhaka on Saturday night. A team of detectives (Ramna Division) arrested them yesterday, during raids at Mugda and Kamrangirchar area, AKM Hafiz Akhter, additional commissioner (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told a press briefing at
He is not an accused in the case. We will try to find out that he saw on that day, he added.
Police earlier said they were looking for him as he helped the lone accused, Fardin Iftekhar Dihan, to carry the victim out of the house and he might know something.
A medical officer and a staffer of Anwar Khan Medical College Hospital, where the girl was taken first, said Fardin along with another young man brought the girl in a car.
Doctors said she died before they reached the hospital.
A forensic doctor at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after post mortem said they found evidence of rape and injury marks on the victim s body. He suspected that the girl died due to hemorrhagic shock and excessive bleeding.