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Retired army major shot dead at Cox’s Bazar check-post

So, the killing was to stop Major Sinha from releasing documents that would prove the involvement of the Police group in the Yabaa smuggling. I am not surprised to read the script above.

When a Police wants to earn extra money he is transferred there by the Razarbag HQ but it is not without certain conditions. The transferred Police must cooperate with the anti-social smuggling activities and get his share of the loot.

A policeman bribes no less than 30 Lakh Taka to get a transfer order to such a lucrative area where millions of Taka is minted every night. The loots are divided among the ordinary Police to SI to OC to SP to DIG to IG to Home Minister and to the PM. The Police HQ people also receive certain percent of the loot.

The PM and Home Minister receive the maximum amounts of kickbacks and other stakeholders get according to their ranks, positions and contributions for a certain night. Note that being under the Home Minister, BGB has the standing order from the HM not to interfere in the BAL/BCL patriotic smuggling business. Non-govt collaborators also receive certain shares for helping the smugglers and Police.

This is how everyone gains money at the cost of social, mental and physical health of the young population. It is like Horir Loot.


After all, people in BD are very patriotic. Our PM is fond of telling people that she has no greed for power and her only wish is to make people smile. Well, this is how she is conducting her happiness business. After all, this is our Golden Bangladesh where some people hold political gooses that lay gold eggs every night.

Corruption at every level. From top to bottom. The state of this country is truly pathetic.
 
Corruption at every level. From top to bottom. The state of this country is truly pathetic.
I criticize Hasina and BAL because currently they are in power. BNP or Jatiya Party were also the same during their time in power when it is corruption. Bangladesh and Pakistan are two countries that were established to make some political people multi-millionaire in terms of dollars.

In a normal country with a democratic tradition, in a situation like this, the country's PM or Home Minister or both would resign from their posts for their failure to administer and in order for the new leaders to probe the killing without their interference.

In the normal countries, politicians have shame, but the politicians in our Golden Bangladesh are shameless. I demand the PM and HM to resign to take responsibility for the killing as well as for the failure to check in control the unabated smuggling of Yabaa.
 
Tourism promotion video made by Maj Sinha, killed by awami league cadres in police uniform. Journalist interviewed locals reveals that awami police instructed locals to tell blatant lie and took signature from locals in blank sheet as false witness.

 
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ACC suspects Pradeep owns assets abroad
Probe resumes
Ahammad Foyez | Published: 23:59, Aug 09,2020

https://www.newagebd.net/article/113102/acc-suspects-pradeep-owns-assets-abroad


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The Anti-Corruption Commission suspected that suspended Teknaf police station officer-in-charge Pradeep Kumar Das owned properties abroad after it found evidence of money laundering by the police officer.

A senior ACC official shared the information with New Age on condition of anonymity as the commission has restarted an earlier inquiry into the illegal wealth of Pradeep and his wife Chumki Karon.

The official concerned would submit the inquiry report to the commission as soon as possible, deputy director Mahababul Alam of ACC Chattogram-2 told New 2Age on Sunday.

He said that the inquiry was reopened following an instruction from the commission head office.

The ACC had started the inquiry against Pradeep, now arrested in a case over the killing of retired army major Sinha Mohammad Rashed Khan, about one year ago, but the inquiry was halted.

According to ACC officials, after the inquiry began the commission asked Pradeep and his wife Chumki to submit their wealth statements to the commission and the couple complied.

The commission, in their wealth statements, found huge wealth which appeared abnormal but the inquiry was stopped for unknown reasons, said the officials.

The ACC inquiry found, under their ownership, several pieces of land, flat and private hotel in Cox’s Bazar and Chattogram, they said.

On August 6, a judicial magistrate court in Cox’s Bazar remanded Pradeep, inspector Md Liyakat Ali and sub-inspector Nanda Dulal Rakshit for seven days in RAB custody after they surrendered in connection with a case filed on Wednesday over the killing.
 
https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/news/crooked-cop-can-get-1941033

12:00 AM, August 07, 2020 / LAST MODIFIED: 01:23 AM, August 07, 2020
As crooked as a cop can get


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In November 2015, a police probe found the then officer-in-charge Pradeep Kumar Das of Bayezid Bostami Police Station guilty of filing a false case against an oil company high-ups to harass them.

Police Headquarters later suspended and attached him to Range Reserve Police.

But within a couple of months, Pradeep was back in Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) with a "good post". He joined the Detective Branch of police.

The OC, now accused of murdering Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan in Cox's Bazar, served as OCs at different police stations in Chattogram, police sources said.

During his 24 years in the force, he had been suspended, withdrawn, and stand released several times over various allegations, including harassing people and extorting money from them.

Despite having a bad record, he became OCs at important police stations, the sources said, adding that there were allegations that he had "spent" a huge amount of money to get the posts.

Pradeep was withdrawn on Wednesday from Teknaf Police Station after he was sued for killing the former major. He surrendered before a Cox's Bazar court yesterday that placed him on a seven-day remand of Rab.

During his two-year stay as Teknaf OC, incidents of "shootouts" surged, especially after a countrywide anti-narcotics drive.

He was awarded the Bangladesh Police Medal in 2019 for his so-called courageous operations.

According to police sources, Pradeep is from Boalkhali upazila in Chattogram. He joined Bangladesh Police in 1996.

He spent most of his career in the CMP and Cox's Bazar areas.

He was the OC of Bayezid Bostami, Patenga, Panchlaish police stations in the CMP and Cox's Bazar Sadar, Ukhiya, Maheshkhali police stations before taking the charge of Teknaf Police Station.

On August 4, 2015, when Pradeep was the OC of Bayezid Bostami Police Station, a police team seized a tanker lorry laden with 9,000 litres of fuel from an oil refinery.

A case was filed against 10 high-ups of the oil company, including its chairman and managing director, under the Special Powers Act for transporting "illegal fuel".

The company denied the allegation and lodged a complaint with the police headquarters. It also said the OC had demanded bribes.

A probe committee, led by an additional deputy inspector general, in its report said Pradeep and other policemen misused their powers and filed the case to harass the company officials.

Pradeep and two sub-inspectors were suspended.

When Pradeep was the OC in Maheshkhali Police Station, there were allegations that he helped local criminal gang -- Ferdous Bahini.

Introducing himself as an Awami League man, he used to be in the extended AL meetings in the upazila.

Local AL leaders even informed their high-ups about Pradeep, some of them claimed.

Locals lodged complainants against him with the offices of the deputy commissioner and superintendent of police and demanded he be removed, locals claimed.

In 2012, when Pradeep was the OC of Patenga Police Station, he seized a barge. Eighteen days later, police filed a case against 12 people, including barge owners, under the Special Powers Act.

The incident triggered criticism, and police headquarters and some intelligence wings carried out investigations.

Pradeep was withdrawn from the police station over allegation of harassing the barge owners.

He became the OC of Teknaf Model Police Station on October 19, 2018.

At least 87 people were killed in 48 incidents of "gunfights" involving Teknaf police alone between August 1, 2018, and August 1, 2020, according to reports published by this daily.

Many of the victims' family had said their loved ones were picked up by Teknaf police a day or two before they were killed in so-called shootouts. They had said their loved ones were killed after they failed to bribe Teknaf police.

Pradeep in a recent Facebook video post threatened of "ghostly attacks" on yaba traders' homes, shops, and vehicles to rid Teknaf of drugs.

"Those homes will be ghostly attacked. Some houses will ghostly catch fire. Some vehicles may catch fire ghostly," he said.

"We have taken out activities to uproot yaba traders from every neighborhood like we remove cancerous parts of our body. Our activities have started," he said, adding that house of one Mamun of Sabrang union came under ghostly attack and fire.

Many questioned how a law enforcement officer could publicly threaten attacks and arsons.
 
https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/news/crooked-cop-can-get-1941033

12:00 AM, August 07, 2020 / LAST MODIFIED: 01:23 AM, August 07, 2020
As crooked as a cop can get

Wrong title and wrong question. Right question should be how an OC of thana (police station) is given so much power by Awami League regime that entire population became victim of their brutal and pseudo rule??? 180 killed in 2 years and millions extorted by Awami league regime police from southern most locality of Bangladesh.
 


Teknaf is a world class cesspool, when police aren't gunning randoms down, the Rohingya yaba traders steal the show and if that isn't enough the people of Teknaf already have a reputation of being rough and violent by themselves.


The military should take over the responsibility of ensuring safety and security in Teknaf indefinitely, declare Marshall law temporarily, If needed.
 
Sinha shot dead - SI Liaquat is running Facebook in jail!

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Aug 12, 2020

Police Inspector Liaquat Ali is in jail on charges of shooting dead former Army Major Sinha. But his Facebook ID is showing 'active'. His ID was also available online on Facebook Messenger on Tuesday (August 11) night. Even on the day he left the court for jail on August 8, the 'profile picture' of his ID has been changed.

http://www.newsbybd.net/newsdetail/detail/200/510356
 
Sinha shot dead - SI Liaquat is running Facebook in jail!

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Aug 12, 2020

Police Inspector Liaquat Ali is in jail on charges of shooting dead former Army Major Sinha. But his Facebook ID is showing 'active'. His ID was also available online on Facebook Messenger on Tuesday (August 11) night. Even on the day he left the court for jail on August 8, the 'profile picture' of his ID has been changed.

http://www.newsbybd.net/newsdetail/detail/200/510356


Why don't you send him a message, you will be cellmates soon.

All BNP - Jamati terrorists belong in kashimpur karagar.
 
https://www.newagebd.net/article/113223/rab-arrests-3-witnesses-named-by-police

RAB arrests 3 suspects/witnesses named by police
Muktadir Rashid with Mohammad Nurul Islam in Cox’s Bazar | Published: 18:25, Aug 11,2020 | Updated: 00:43, Aug 12,2020




The Rapid Action Battalion said on Tuesday that they arrested three suspects at Marishbunia area of Teknaf in the afternoon over their ‘direct’ connection to the killing of Bangladesh Army retired Major Sinha Mohammad Rashed Khan in Cox’s Bazar on July 31.

Senior judicial magistrate Helal Uddin sent all three suspects — Nurul Amin, 21, Nizam Uddin, 42, and Ayas Uddin, 40 — to jail pending an application for today filed by the RAB investigators seeking a 10-day custody for interrogation.

The RAB director for legal and media wing Lieutenant Colonel Ashique Billah said that they had arrested them at 2:00pm on Tuesday at village Marishbunia for their ‘direct link’ to the killing of the retired major.

He said that they were named as ‘witnesses’ in the first information report filed by the Teknaf police sub-inspector Nanda Dulal Rakshit, who was also in jail in the case filed by Rashed’s eldest sister Sharmen Shahria Ferdush.

Sharmen filed the murder case with the judicial magistrate court in Cox’s Bazar on August 5, prompting the Teknaf police station to lodge a complaint.

The Teknaf police officer-in-charge Abul Faisol, however, said Nurul Amin’s mother Khaleda Begum lodged a complaint that her son and two others — Nizam and Ayas — were picked up on Monday afternoon by a group of plainclothes people on a microbus.

He said that they received a letter from the government-instituted four-member committee earlier on Monday and the police came to know they were taken when they went to their houses to serve the notice asking them to appear before the committee.

Khaleda Begum filed an abduction case with Teknaf police station on Tuesday morning.

Inspector Abul Faisol said the three supposed to appear before the probe committee at 9:00am on Tuesday.

Asked whether arrests made by the RAB would hamper the inquiry, Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, an additional divisional commissioner at Chattogram, who was heading the inquiry, told New Age that it would not hamper as they would ask RAB authorities to allow them to talk to the committee.

He said the committee also asked the Cox’s Bazar police authorities to explain why they failed to produce the three before the committee.

Two officials in the Chattogram police range confirmed that the Cox’s Bazar police already informed in writing to the probe body explaining the reason.

According to the internal report, the police stated that 15 witnesses of the incident were scheduled to appear before the probe body at the Hilldown Circuit House in the district headquarters.

The report read that when the police were visiting the house of the witnesses to serve the notice, they came to know that three of the 15 witnesses were picked up at about 3:30pm on Monday.

The police in the report stated that they would produce nine witnesses, including policemen who were on duty on July 31 and August 1.

The police also informed the probe committee that they have served notice to the retired major’s associate Tahsin Rifat Nur to appear on the committee on Thursday.

Sinha Mohammad Rashed Khan, 36, who took early retirement from the Bangladesh Army in November 2018, was shot dead at a police check point on Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf Marine Drive at Shamlapur under Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar on July 31.

Following the killing, the first information report filed by sub-inspector Nanda Dulal Rakshit of Teknaf police station, stated that Liyakat Ali, in-charge of Baharchhara Police Investigation Centre, fired four shots at the retired major allegedly to protect himself and his fellow officers.

Rashed’s associate, videographer Sifat was arrested in two cases filed under various charges including obstruction to perform government duty and carrying contraband drugs against him and had been jail since the day the major was killed. He was released on bail on Monday.

The RAB was investigating the case and termed Sifat as a crucial witness of the incident as he was with Rashed moments before the fatal shooting.

Shipra Debnath, another associate of the salin major, was prosecuted under a drug case and was released from jail on bail on Sunday.

Ramu police station held Shipra at Nilima Resort in Himchari and filed the case against her for possessing liquor and marijuana, among others.

On Monday night, Sifat and Shipra appeared before the press with their family members.

On August 6, a judicial magistrate court remanded three suspects — Teknaf police station’s suspended officer-in-charge Pradeep Kumar Das, Baharchhara Police Investigation Centre in-charge Md Liyakat Ali and sub-inspector Nanda Dulal Rakshit — in custody for seven days within ten days in connection with the case filed on August 5 by the victim’s sister over the killing.

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Former SP Allah Bakhsh ‘regrets’ giving legal advice to Pradeep

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11 August, 2020, 11:05 pm
Last modified: 11 August, 2020, 11:38 pm

Bakhsh added that he did not know the truth while providing legal advice to Pradeep
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The former superintendent of police Allah Bakhsh has expressed regret over giving legal advice to former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das after the killing of Army major (retd) Sinha.

"It was a very bad thing for me to do," Bakhsh said in a press release on Tuesday, which he issued in a bid to explain his position centring the incident.

After information of Pradeep talking on the phone with Bakhsh on August 1 came into light, it attracted widespread attention from the media and social network platforms.

"Police officers on duty often ask for suggestions and advice from former police officers. On that day, the then Teknaf OC described the incident his way and asked for my advice," said Bakhsh, adding that he did not know the truth while providing legal advice to Pradeep.

"I only gave him advice based on what he told me. I did not know what really happened," he added.

Regarding his comment about the Army, Bakhsh said that his expression was not cynical in any way.

Sinha murder: OC Pradip, Liakat, Nanda Dulal not taken to RAB custody yet
"It was only an unintentional slip of my tongue. I regret that. I did not, in any way, express any disregard about the Army intentionally," he said.

Allah Bakhsh went into retirement from the police force around six years ago. He is currently the president of Chattogram section of Police Officer Welfare Samiti.

On the night of July 31, Army major (retd) Sinha was killed in police firing on Cox's Bazar's Marine Drive.


https://tbsnews.net/bangladesh/former-sp-allah-bakhsh-regrets-giving-legal-advice-pradeep-118261
 

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