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As many as 57 leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations were yesterday sentenced to jail on different terms in two cases filed in the capital over political violence.
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On June 9, 1971, six guerilla freedom fighters were on the way to the Intercontinental Hotel (InterContinental Dacca) in a hijacked Datsun 1000 car around 6:30pm. Shahidullah Khan Badol was driving, while Kamrul Huq Shopon and Masud Sadek Chullu, Habibul Alam, Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, and Ziauddin Ali Ahmed were carrying three hand grenades each.
Two death-row fugitives, who were sentenced by the International Crimes Tribunal for committing crimes against humanity in 1971, were arrested from Dhaka's Dakshin Khan and Ashulia area yesterday.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested the father of the Brac University student, whose body was recovered from near her Dakshin Khan residence on Saturday.
Detectives arrested three key office-bearers of the committee of a temple in Dhaka’s Kafrul area on charge of abetting suicide of one of its caretakers (Sevayait) two weeks ago.