e_Paper, Monday, May 15, 2017

Teenager killed over
enmity with cricketer
Mushfique’s father
• Nazmul Huda Nasim,
Bogra
The teenager son of a central
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Jasad)
leader has been murdered in
Bogra, seven days after a conflict
between him and national cricketer
Mushfiqur Rahim’s father
Mahbub Hamid Tara was settled.
The dead is Mashuk Ferdous,
15, a ninth grader of SOS
Hermann Gmeiner School and
College in the district.
Mashuk’s father advocate
Emdadul Haq, an executive
member of Jasad (Hasanul
Haq Inu-led faction), said
that a teenage neighbour
Nayeem Hossain called and
took Mashuk out of his home
in Bogra town’s Matidali area
around 8:30pm Saturday.
Afterwards, Mashuk was
found lying near his home
with grievous head injuries.
He was taken to a local hospital
where he was declared
dead the same night.
Nayeem, however, went
into hiding after the incident.
Police inspected the crime
scene and detained his parents
for interrogation.
Mashuk was buried after
Asr prayers yesterday.
Emdad blamed an influential
group led by Mushfique’s
father Tara and his brother Mejbah-ul-Hamid,
a local municipality
councillor, for the murder.
He said that a conflict ensued
between him and the duo
over the formation of the governing
body of Matidali High
School as Tara secretly took
the charge as its chairman.
“Even Tara’s aides beat up
two of my followers, who are
members of the governing
body, on the back of the row,”
Emdad said, adding that the issue
was resolved through a police
intervention a week ago.
“The culprits have my son
murdered in a planned way.
The mastermind will be identified
after Nayeem’s arrest,”
he hoped.
When contacted, Tara
claimed that he had no rivalry
with Emdad. •
News 7
MONDAY, MAY 15, 2017
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Kaliganj people protest
local REB’s corrupt ways
• Asaduzzaman, Satkhira
People of Satkhira’s Kaliganj
upazila hosted a demonstration
yesterday over the alleged corruption
by the employees of Rural
Electrification Board (REB).
The protesters alleged that
the corrupt officials of Kaliganj
REB had extorted a good
sum of money in exchange for
providing electricity connection
to the respective unions
and were trying to give the
government a bad-name by
not resolving the issue of loadshedding
in the area.
They paraded the streets
of Kaliganj with a procession
and held a rally at Kaliganj bus
stand yesterday. The protest
was led by former president
of Kaliganj unit Awami League
GM Mahtab Uddin.
Kaliganj Upazila Chairman
Sheikh Waheduzzaman and
representatives of Krishnanagar,
South Sreepur, Dholbaria
and Moutala unions also
joined the protest. •
MoU signed between
Casper Foundation and UIU
• Tribune Desk
Casper Foundation and United
International University (UIU)
signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) on May 9.
The MoU was signed to initiate
the Casper programmes
in the UIU campus. The programmes
will allow the students
of the university to engage
in social initiatives while
working on their personal and
career development skills under
the guidance of Casper
Foundation.
Md Manjurul Haque Khan,
director of UIU Career Counseling
Centre, Md Aminul
Islam, senior executive of
UIU Career Counseling Centre,Taufiquz
Zaman, chief executive
officer and founder of
Casper Foundation, and Rizvi
Rahman, vice-chairman and
founding member of Casper
Foundation, were all present
at the signing ceremony. •