News: Shazneen murder
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Shazneen murder
Five on police remand, Shahid still at large
By Staff Corespondent The Daily Star 4/27/98
Five servants at the Gulshan residence of Latifur Rahman were placed on a
seven-day police remand yesterday in connection with the killing of his
youngest daughter Shazneen Tasnim Rahmna on Thursday night.
However, police could not arrest the only accused in the murder - Shahidul
Islam alias Shahid, 22 - another servant at the residence, till the filing of
this report last night.
CID investigators have started probing the brutal killing of Shazneen, 15, the
school-going daughter of the Chairman of Transcom Ltd.
Latifur Rahman alleged in the FIR that their servant Shahid abused and stabbed
his daughter to death.
Police sources said a security guard at the house Humayun Kabir, who was among
the five remanded, admitted that he had seen Shahid, his clothes bloodstained,
leaving the house through its main gate on the night of the incident. But
Humayun failed to give any satisfactory answer to the investigators why he did
not stop Shahid from leaving the house.
A senior police official said that the investigation till yesterday showed that
Shahid killed and abused Shazneen in her bed room at about 10 pm on Thursday.
However, they were yet to find out whether some others were involved in the
incident of abusing and killing Shazneen.
Gulshan police produced the five servants including Humayun Kabir before the
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court yesterday. The four others are
Hemayetullah, Yasin, Shafiqur Rahman and Faruq.
Our court correspondent reported that following a police prayer, Metropolitan
Magistrate M A Hannan ordered seven-day remand for the five servants.
Police, in a report to the court, said that the five were suspected to be
well-informed about the killing.
Meanwhile, police picked up a friend of the alleged killer, who is also known
as 'Shahid' from the city's Mirpur area Saturday night. Gulshan police took
'Shahid' and some other relatives of the accused to different areas of the
country in an attempt to arrest the murderer.
The investigators also questioned a friend of Shazneen who had last spoken to
her over telephone before she was murdered.
Besides, police had taken fingerprints of about 20 people and sent those to the
CID laboratory for examination. The fingerprints included the those of the
servants at the house.
Earlier, two maids at the house - Parvin and Minu - in separate statements to
the court accused Shahidul of murdering Shazneen.
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Shahid arrested from Ctg
Star Report
Shahidul Islam, the main accused in the Shazneen murder case, was arrested in
Chittagong city yesterday. He was brought to the CID headquarters in Dhaka last
night.
Soon after he was brought to the CID HQ at Malibagh, newsmen asked him if he
had murdered Shazneen. A barefooted Shahidul, wearing a striped shirt and black
trousers, said "No." He was brought there by a special squad of police at about
10 pm.
Shahidul was named the prime accused in the FIR lodged with Gulshan thana by
Shazneen's father Latifur Rahman, a prominent businessman.
Police had been looking for him after he fled Rahman's Gulshan residence
following the murder. Shazneen Tasmin Rahman, 15, a student of Sholastica
School in the city was found lying dead in a pool of blood at her bedroom at
about 10 pm Thursday. There were at least 32 marks of stab injuries in her
body.
The case was transferred to the CID for investigation. Five servants at
Rahman's house were earlier taken into CID custody under remand for seven days
on Sunday.
Police so far picked up at least 20 people including a friend and an uncle of
Shahidul in connection with the case.
A press release issued by Chittagong Metropolitan Police said that police
arrested him from station road area yesterday morning following a tip-off.
UNB adds from Chittagong: Shahidul Islam, the main accused in the Shazneen
Murder case, surrendered to the police at Kotwali thana here yesterday.
But he denied any involvement in the murder of the teenage school girl,
Shazneen Tasnim Rahman, at their Gulshan house on Thursday night.
Shahidul was sent to Dhaka by microbus with a special security team of the
police. The microbus started for Dhaka at about 4 pm, police said.
In a statement to police, Shahidul said he went out at 10 pm on Thursday night
to buy betel leaf as asked by Minu, one of the maid servants, at the house of
industrialist Latifur Rahman.
"After returning to the house, I found a white microbus outside the main gate
with three youths in the vehicle," he said.
He alleged that the youths forcibly took him inside the microbus, blindfolded
him with a black piece of cloth and tied his hands to the roof of the microbus.
"After a night-long drive, the microbus stopped in front of a red-brick
building," Shahidul said, adding that he was kept confined in a room of the
building, locked from outside.
"On Friday," he said, "I was alone in the room and nobody came to me, nor I was
supplied any food."
The accused, in his statement, further said that two men, wearing masks and
their body covered with black clothes, came into the room on Saturday morning,
removed his blindfold and untied his hands.
"They gave me two loaves of bread and a little dal. After giving me the chance
to take food, they again blindfolded me and tied my hands. And then they left
keeping me in the locked room."
On Sunday morning, the same youths came to him and untied his hands and
blindfold to allow him take rice and vegetables, Shahidul told the police.
"I was always tied up, even kept blindfolded when I was taken to the toilet.
One man was guarding me all the time."
Shahidul said, on Sunday night, at about 11 or 11:30, he somehow managed to
remove the black cloth from his eyes and the rope from his hands, and came out
of the room breaking the grill of an old window.
"Nearby, I found a rail line and started walking on the line. After about half
an hour, I came to Chittagong railway station."
He passed the night on the platform, he said. In the next morning, he saw his
picture in the newspaper while taking tea at a stall, he said.
"As I am an illiterate person, I asked people around me. They said that the
picture was of a man who killed a girl at a house at Gulshan in Dhaka."
"Then I decided to inform the matter to the nearby thana as I was totally
ignorant of the killing of Shazneen," Shahidul said in the statement to police
after surrendering.
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Shazneen murder
Shaid surrenders to police at Ctg
Shahidul Islam alias Shahid, the main accused in the sensationalShazneen Tasnim
murder case, surrendered to the police in Chittagong on Monday.
Police launched a massive country wide man hunt to arrest Shahid following the
brutal murder of Tasnim, youngest daughter of leading industrialist and
Transcom Group Chairman Latifur Rahman, at his residence on Thursday last.
Latifur Rahman filed a case with Gulshan police station accusing Shahid, a
servant in his house, of killing his daughter.
Shahid, who was absconding following the murder, went to Kotwali police station
in Chittagong at around 9.30 am on Monday and surrendered to the police. He
told the police that he was abducted by some youths from in front of his
employer's residence at House 4, Road 84, Gulshan on Thursday night.
Chittagong Kotwali police set Shahid to Dhaka under a tight security
arrangement. However, the police then escorting Shahid did not reach the
capital till Monday midnight.
Sixteen year old Shazneen Tasnim, a student of Class IX of Scholastic School
was brutally murdered in her bed room at the ground floor when a gala party was
in progress on the first floor of Latifur Rahman's well secured Gulshan
residence. In his statement to the police Latifur Rahman said that his daughter
was raped and killed by servant Shahid.
The Detective Branch (DB), Criminal Investigation Department (CID), and Gulshan
Police jointly launched investigation into the mysterious murder of Shazneen
Tasnim. Police picked up 17 persons including eleven servants of Latifur
Rahman's residence for interrogation.
On Monday the CID has been entrusted the sole responsibility of the
investigation into the case and Assistant Superintendent of Police (CID)
Mujibur Rahman has been assigned as the investigating officer of the case.
During interrogation by Chittagong Kotwali Police, Shyahid narrated the story
about his abduction by some youths from in front of Latifur Rahman's Gulshan
residence on Thursday night. Shahid claimed that he was going to a near by
market to buy betel leaf for the guests at the party at his employer's
residence on Thursday night. He told the police that as soon as he came out of
the gate to proceed towards the market a group of youths stopped him and picked
him up to a microbus. He was blindfolded immediately and he felt that the
microbus ran for several hours.
UNB adds:- After a night long drive, the microbus stopped in front of a
red-brick building, Shahidul said, adding that he was kept confined in a room
of the building, locked from outside.
On Friday, he said, "I was alone in the room and nobody came to me, nor I was
supplied any food".
The accused, in his statement, further said that two men, wearing masks and
their body covered with black clothes, came into the room on Saturday morning,
removed his blindfold and untied his hands. And then they left me in the locked
room", he said.
On Sunday morning, the same youths came to him and untied his hands and
blindfold to allow him to take rice and vegetables, Shahidul told the police.
"I was always tied up, even kept blindfolded when I was taken to the toilet.
One man was guarding me all the time".
Shahidul said on Sunday night, at about 11 or 11.30, he somehow managed to
remove the black cloth from his eyes and the rope from his hands, and came out
of the room breaking the grill of an old window.
"Nearby, I found a rail line and started walking on the line. After about half
an hour, I came to Chittagong Railway Station".
After passing the night on the platform, he said that the next morning he saw a
picture of him in the newspaper while taking tea at a stall.
"As I am an illiterate person, I asked the people around me and they said that
the picture was of a man who killed a girl at a house of Gulshan in Dhaka."
"Then I decided to inform the matter to the nearby thana as I was totally
ignorant of the killing of Shahzneen", Shahidul said in the statement to the
police.
Our staff Correspondent further writes Shahid will be taken to criminal
Investigation Department's (CID) office at Malibagh for interrogation wen he
will be brought to Dhaka, high police officials said. He will likely to be
produced before the court of Chief Metropolitan magistrate today (Tuesday).
Five of the eleven servants of Latifur Rahman's residence are now facing
interrogation at CID office. On interrogation, the police received a umber of
important clues regarding involvement of several persons in the sensational
murder. Police also questioned two boy friends of Shazneen. However, the
identity of Shazneen's boy friends was not disclosed by police.
The autopsy report of Shazneen is likely to be given to the police today
(Tuesday). It was not known whether the samples collected during the autopsy
would be sent to Mohakhali for viscera examination.
Amdad Choudhury
ZRahman986 wrote:
>
> Shazneen murder
> Shaid surrenders to police at Ctg
>
> Shahidul Islam alias Shahid, the main accused in the sensationalShazneen Tasnim
> murder case, surrendered to the police in Chittagong on Monday.
>
> Police launched a massive country wide man hunt to arrest Shahid following the
> brutal murder of Tasnim, youngest daughter of leading industrialist and
If she was raped, has our idiotic police force thought of conducting a
DNA test among the servants & relatives.
Amdad Choudhury...
Amdad Choudhury
Shahid confesses killing Shazneen, Remanded
Shahidul Islam, accused to murdering Shazneen, confessed
to CID late Monday night that he
had killed the teenage girl police said yesterday.
Shahidul alias Shahid, 22, was produced in the CMM's
court yesterday afternoon. The court
placed him on a five-day remand. Shahid was then brought
back to CID custody.
The investigators were yet to find out whether there was
any other abettor, CID sources said.
Investigations till yesterday indicated that Shazneen
was stabbed to death as she resisted the
attacker who tried to physically abuse her. (The Daily
Star)
Hasan Jamil
Amdad Choudhury wrote:
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> If she was raped, has our idiotic police force thought of conducting a
> DNA test among the servants & relatives.
I am not sure if BD police can arrange a DNA test in Bangladesh. Its
probably unknown in BD.
- Jamil.