A Dhaka court today rejected a bail petition of Helana Jahangir, a businessperson turned politician, in a fraud case filed with Dhaka's Pallabi Police Station.
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A virtual court in Dhaka today rejected a bail petition of two accused in a case filed over the killing of businessman Shahinuddin in Dhaka's Pallabi area on May 16. The accused are: Mohammad Titu (30), and Iqbal Noor (21). Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Tofazzal Hossain passed the order after their lawyer moved the bail petition through videoconferencing. During
Shahinuddin Murder: Police claim ex-MP is the mastermind
MA Awal. Photo: Collected
Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
Ex-MP MA Awal masterminded the murder of Pallabi trader Shahinuddin. He instructed people to carry out the killing, according to AKM Hafiz Akhter, additional commissioner of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Addressing a press conference, he also said Awal had gotten into a dispute with Sahinuddin over the construction of boundary gates and pillars at Awal s Ali Nagar project in Pallabi.
Awal planned to kill Shahinuddin and his staffer Sumon was assigned to execute the plan in return for a huge amount of money. Sumon, with the help of others, hacked Shahinuddin to death on May 16, he said.
After recording his statement, the magistrate sent him to Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj.
Sumon in his statement told the magistrate that since 2004 Awal had a dispute over land with the victim. As the former lawmaker failed to grab the victim s land, he planned to kill him, he said.
Awal made the blueprint to kill Shahinuddin, a businessman in the capital, at his Kalabagan office where accused Sumon and another person were present, an official of the court confirmed it.
In line with the plan, the former lawmaker asked Sumon to hire 10-12 goons to execute his plan and Sumon hired the criminals accordingly. He had a meeting with them at Mirpur-12 on May 15.