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Monthly round-up

Crime incidents surge ahead despite ’Operation August’

By Farid Ahmed
Despite the special anticrime drive. 'Operation August' all over the country, crime incidents claimed 51 lives and left more than 300 wounded in the capital during the last month.
Death tolls in August exceeded the figure reported tn July when 46 people were killed and nearly 300 wounded 1n different crime incidents like murder, suicide, clash, robbery, mugging and road accidents tn the capital.
In August, eight people were murdered. 10 found mysteriously dead 29 feel victims to reckless driving and four
died in other Incidents in the city. In July. 10 people were murdered, six committed suicide. 24 killed in road accidents and five lost their Ilves In other Incidents.
Following a drastic reshuffle tn the Police Department, strengthening of anti-crime drive, crime Incidents were comparatively low during the first half of August But later on it marked a rapid rise At the beginning of the second half, unidentified assailants' attempt on Workers' Party leader.
Rashed Khan Menon on August 17. had left the city dwellers including the political leaders tn a terrible state of fear of insecurity.
Even three police men were also attacked by mi sere-anjs In August While they were on duty. A Sub-Inspector of Police Shah Alam was severely stabbed at Mirpur on August 5. a police constable sustained bullet Injuries at Uttara on August 10 and the motor-bike of a police Habllder. Nurul Islam, was hijacked at gunpoint near Mohammadpur Police Station on August 22. The first murder of the month was committed when a mini-bus helper pushed down a passenger from the running bus following an altercation between the two. The unidentified passenger was instantly smashed under the wheels near the Jatiya Press Club on August a
Of the others. Farhad Hossain, a student of Dhaka College, was murdered reportedly by a group of shop-keepers of Bakushah Market at Nilkhet on August 25.
Shahabuddin. a student of Dhaka Polytechnic Institute, was shot dead at a hostel of the institute on August 29. He was a victim of an internal conflict of two factions of Jatiyatabadl Chhatra Dal (JCD). The assailants of Shahabuddin also severely beat Abdur Rauf on the same day. Rauf succumbed to his injuries on September 1 at the Mohakhali Chest Disease Hospital.
Bloody gun-battle between two factions of JCD at the Dhaka University campus on August 30 also left one person killed and another four wounded.
China. 17. wife of Milon, an autorickshaw driver, was stabbed to death by her husband at her Ibrahimpur residence. A hawker. Shaheed Mia was stabbed to death at Mohammadpur by a group of extortionists, and a rickshawpuller Ayat All was murdered at Demra in a sequel to a quarrel of two groups of the area. Nearly 70 robberies and muggings were committed in the city during the last months. At least 30 persons were also stabbed by the muggers during the Incidents.
Of those who were found dead, six were young girls and three of them worked as house maids. Police recorded the cases as unnatural deaths but they are yet to unearth the mystery.
Of the girls, Shell Begum 18. worked at the house of a parliament member. Abdur Rob Chawdhury at Gulshan. She was found dead at the house on August 28. Mina Begum, 16, another maid was found dead at her master's house at Central Road on August 3. while Ruma, 16. who worked at a doctor's house at Lalmatla was found at her mas ter s house on August 5.
Of the others killed. Sultan Ahmed, a businessman, committed suicide by Jumping from the top of the 18 storyed Eastern Tower al Eskaton on August 30.
In road accidents, at feast 29 people were killed and nearly 120 Injured In the city during the last month.