Transit fee fixation ‘unlikely before Singh’s visit’

The finance minister, AMA Muhith, on Wednesday said the transit fee or charge is unlikely to be finalised before Indian prime minister Dr Manhoman Singh's visit of Bangladesh next month.

'I don't think we'll be able to fix the fee ….prior to his (Manmohan) visit. But, we may finalise the principal agreement or framework agreement,' he told reporters at his ministry's conference room after Ukranian agrarian policy food minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk and then UNFPA executive director Babatunde Osotimehin met him at his office.

Asked about the criticism about the country's benefit from giving the transit facilities, Muhith said it is absolutely nuisance that Bangladesh would not be benefited by giving the transit facilities.

The finance minister said his ministry has made comments on the draft report on finalisation of transit fee submitted by the core committee.

'The report is yet to be finalised. Once finalised, the report will be made public,' he said adding that it might not be possible prior to the Indian prime minister's visit early next month.

He said the experience of Switzerland is being considered in the study on transit and it is also necessary to take the experience of Ukraine.

Mentioning that the estimate of the transit cost is a problem, Muhith said the transit cost is realised everywhere as Southeast Asian countries like Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam have given transit facilities.

The finance minister said it would not be possible at the moment to open 16 routes at a time to give transit facilities. 'Instead, 2-3 routes could be opened and the other routes would be opened gradually.'

Muhith said he is looking for the utilisation of the $ 1.0 billion Indian credit assistance prior to the visit of the Indian prime minister.

He said out of the 20 projects identified for the credit, nine projects have so far got the approval and a process is underway for their tendering.

'There'll also be deals on the rest of the projects, may be before the visit or during the visit.'

On transshipment, he said, 'An agreement with fee is more or less there.'

But, considering the growing traffic, he said it should now be fixed on the basis of cargo, weight or the routes (rail and water).

Source : New Age

Residents demonstrate for power in Sylhet

Residents of a part of Sylhet city blocked the Sylhet-Tamabil Highway for more than for one hour on early Wednesday, demanding immediate resumption of power supply.

Several hundred residents of Islampur put up barricades on the highway at about 12:30am to protest against the delay in replacing the electrical transformer that went out of order on Monday night.

The agitated people also set fire to old tires during the blockade and chanted slogans demanding immediate steps to resume power supply to the area, said locals.

The protesters said that they would not go home until resumption of power supply to their area, said Abul Miah, a resident of Shyamali Residential Area in Islampur.

Ehsan Ahmed, president of a social welfare organisation, said they had requested officials of the Power Development Board repeatedly between Monday night and Tuesday to repair the inoperative electric transformer and resume the power supply to reduce the suffering of the people observing Ramadan.

But the PDB authorities did not take any steps at all to repair or replace the transformer and resume electricity supply to Islampur, the home of more than ten thousand people, he said.

On Tuesday night at around 11:30pm a group of senior people of the area went to the headquarters of the Rapid Action Battalion-9 and informed the officials of their suffering.

The RAB-9 authorities, responding to the locals' request, requested the PDB authorities to take an immediate initiative to restore the power supply to Islampur.

The locals got furious as none of the PDB officials or employees went to the area till Wednesday 12:30am to repair or replace the transformer, which went out of order on Monday night, and started demonstrating and blocked the highway, said local sources.

On being informed, a team of the Sylhet Metropolitan Police of Shahparan thana rushed to the spot at around 1:30am and persuaded the protesters to lift the barricade on the highway after assuring them that power supply would be resumed by Wednesday, said sources in the police.

PDB Sylhet office's chief executive engineer, Shahinul Islam Khan, on Wednesday afternoon said they were trying to complete repair of the transformer in the shortest possible time.

'Replacing the inoperative transformer by a new one is not possible as an acute shortage of transformers is prevailing in Sylhet,' he added.

Source : New Age

Dhali likely to be taken to Bangkok

The critically injured artiste Dhali Al Mamun may be taken to Bangkok on Friday for better treatment, a close friend of Dhali has told the news agency.

Artiste Wakilur Rahman said on Wednesday that family and friends of Dhali had taken the decision as 'he was grievously hurt' in the August 13 road accident that killed celebrated filmmaker Tareque Masud and ATN News chief editor Mishuk Munier and three others.

Dhali is in the intensive care unit of city's Square Hospitals.

'If everything goes fine, we will take him (Dhali) to Bangkok by air ambulance on Friday morning,' he said, adding, there are some 'formalities' still pending that may delay the schedule (Friday).

However, a Square Hospital medical board sat around noon and decided to operate upon Dhali's broken arm on 'family members' consent'.

'We are ready to operate upon his arm, if family agrees,' professor Mostafizur Rahman told the news agency and added, 'The artiste is improving.'

However, Dhali's friend Wakilur Rahman said they would not go through any surgical procedure further as they had decided to take him to Bangkok.

The accident has also broken Dhali's lower jaw and eight chest ribs that injured the lungs.

Doctors clipped the broken jaw and inserted a tube into the chest to drain the accumulated air into the pleural space (surround the lungs).

Though he was stated 'critical', doctors were optimistic as 'there is no sign of deterioration'.

Artiste's colleague and friend Lala Rukh Selim, on behalf of the artist community, has made a blog-appeal unheardvoice.net/blog/2011/08/16/dhali-al-mamoon seeking help for Dhali's treatment.

One can send contributions to the account number: 012911100004095 of Mercantile Bank Ltd's Gul-shan Branch in the capital.

Source : New Age

Warrants against 2 BNP leaders

A Bhola court on Wednesday issued warrants of arrest against BNP leaders- barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah and Shah Moazzem Hossain- for issuing death threats to the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.

Magistrate Mahabub Alam of Sadar court passed the order, said defence lawyer Syed Ashraf Hossain Labu.

Earlier, the court summoned the duo. But, they did not respond.

Source : New Age

This year’s fitra Tk 53

The Islamic Foundation has fixed the lowest amount of this year's sadakatul fitra at Tk 53.

This mandatory alms to be given to the poor before the Eid-ul-Fitr was fixed at a meeting at the Islamic Foundation office on Wednesday.

Baitul Moqarram National Mosque Khatib Maulana Mohammad Salahuddin presided over the meeting, said an Islamic Foundation press release.

The lowest amount of fitra was fixed as per the value of 1.650 kilogram wheat or coarse flour.

Source : New Age

EU concerned about CHT peace process

The European Union is concerned about the implementation of Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord, the EU ambassador to Dhaka, William Hanna, told diplomatic correspondents on Wednesday.

'We are more concerned about the peace process' he said at a discussion hosted by Diplomatic Correspondents' Association, Bangladesh at a city hotel

At 'DCAB talk,' as the session was styled, Hanna said, 'For us (EU) the main issue is the implementation of the peace agreement.'

He said the EU would provide 24 million Euro, in addition to current support to Bangladesh, for dealing with poverty, health, education and food security issues in Chittagong Hill Tracts.

Bangladesh government and the leaders of Parpatya Chattagram Janasanghati Samity signed the CHT Peace Accord in 1997.

Hanna, an Irish, hoped that the next general election in Bangladesh would be free, fair and inclusive.

 'How it will be held will be decided by Bangladesh,' he said. 

Asked about the EU's perception about current human rights situation and extrajudicial killing in Bangladesh, the ambassador said that justice and law should be followed.  

Sharing what he experienced during a recent visit to Yaper, a small town of about 1000 people in Belgium, Hanna said, goods from Bangladesh including, its apparel and prawn flooded the shops there.

'This is creating employment in Bangladesh,' he said. 

He said that the EU would continue to support Bangladesh in trade, economic development, and other sectors including, democracy, food safety, health and education.

The ambassador stressed the need for providing technological support to Bangladesh in its struggle against the adverse impacts of climate change.

'Bangladesh is at the frontline facing adverse impacts of climate change. Now, we have to formalise other big players including China and USA,' he said. 

DCAB president Raheed Ejaz chaired the session while its general secretary Abdul Majid gave the welcome address.  Senior EU officials Andrew Barnard, Pierre Buysschaert and Anjum Aziz were present.

Source : New Age

Muhith blames communications ministry

In response to the communication minister's remark on disbursement of fund for road repairs, the finance minister, AMA Muhith, on Wednesday said that the question of disbursement did not come in this regard.

He also blamed ministries, including the communications ministry, for not prioritising the selection and implementation of the projects.

'The planning and budgeting unit of every ministry must be strong and be  strengthened and has to exercise this discipline of priority,' he added.

In reply to a question, he said that the allocation for different projects is not adequate compared with the demand. As a result, there is a need to prioritise the projects.

As for rundown condition of the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway, he said it has almost been destroyed as there was no maintenance in the past seven years.

 'Once the budget is passed in the parliament, the allocated funds go to the ministries concerned and there is no disbursement business here,' he told reporters in his ministry's conference room on Wednesday.

Muhith said that his ministry releases fund if it is not included in the budget or when a change is made in the allocation.

He said that in the Annual Development Programme of the current financial year, the Roads and Highways Department features 147 projects, including six new ones.

An amount of Tk 1401 crore was allotted for a project for the repairs of roads and highways, he said.

Muhith said that the project has so far witnessed an expenditure of Tk 56 crore in the previous year as well as an allocation of Tk 50 crore in the current year.

The finance minister on Tuesday said the communication minister did comment on release of fund on road repair without having a clear understanding of the matter.

At a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Abul Hossain and Muhith argued in presence of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, as she sought explanation from Hossain over the current status of roads and the deaths of filmmaker Tareque Masud and journalist Mishuk Munier and three others in a fatal road crash on Saturday.

Source : New Age

RHD holidays cancelled, key officials transferred

The government on Wednesday cancelled, until further order, all weekly and Eid-ul-Fitr holidays of the officers and employees of Roads and Highways Department and asked them to complete emergency repair of the badly-damaged road and highway networks before the festival.

It also cancelled weekly and Eid holidays of the officers and employees of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation and Bangladesh Road Transport Authority to ensure smooth transport service for the home-bound passengers during Eid.

The communication ministry issued a gazette notification cancelling their holidays a day after prime minister Sheikh Hasina had asked for completing the repair of all dilapidated roads and highways before Eid to ease public sufferings.

Long distance vehicular movement virtually came to a standstill earlier in the week as most of the highways developed potholes and craters for non maintenance and repair for long.

Earlier in the week, the communications minister came under scathing criticism from all quarters including his cabinet colleagues as well as lawmakers for the state of the roads and highways across the country.

Officials and engineers related to maintenance and construction of roads and highways have been asked to be on duty round the clock to complete the repair and rehabilitation of the roads before the festival.

They have been asked not to leave their places of duty until further notice, the ministry said in its official order.

The communications ministry asked RHD, BRTA and BRTC for carry out the order.

The ministry in a separate official order, issued on the day, withdrew RHD Gazipur executive engineer Mohammad Fazle Rabbi.

RHD Road Design and Standard Department executive engineer Sheikh Mohammad Shafiqul Alam replaced him.

Dhaka circle supervising engineer Mohammad Arifur Rahman and Comilla circle supervising engineer Mohammad Shahab Uddin Khan have been interchanged. 

Rangpur circle additional chief engineer Mafizul Islam and additional chief engineer at RHD headquarters Md Mohammad Shariful Islam have also been interchanged. 

Supervising engineer at RHD headquarters Mohammad Dalil Uddin has been appointed the director of the Eastern Bangladesh Bridge Improvement Project.

The ministry issued the transfer orders a day after the communications minister, Syed Abul Hossain, with senior officials on Tuesday paid a spot visits to the badly-damaged Mawna point on Dhaka-Mymensigh Highway after highway communication on the route came to a virtual halt.

At an emergency meeting held at the prime minister's officer on Tuesday, prime minister Sheikh Hasina ordered the communications ministry to repair the badly-damaged highways before Eid.

She held the meeting with the communications ministry in the wake of bus operators suspending inter district bus service on Dhaka-Tangail and Dhaka-Mymensingh, and several other routes.

Transport operators have been asking for the repair of the rundown highways. 

Officials said that she asked the communications ministry to cancel holidays of the roads and highways officials and employees, if necessary, to complete the repair of major highways before Eid.  

Following an assurance from the prime minister that the badly needed repair would be done, the owners withdrew the suspension of bus service on inter district routes Tuesday evening.

Source : New Age

Gas-field discovered in Noakhali by Bapex

The state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company after 15 years has finally discovered a new gas-field located at Sundulpur in Companyganj upazila under Noakhali district.

Bapex, which is a subsidiary of the state-run Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources Corporation, Petrobangla, discovered the Saldanadi gas-field in 1996 in Brahmanbaria.

The latest discovery was announced at a press briefing on Wednesday by Petrobangla's chairman Hossain Monsur, Bapex's managing director Mortuza Ahmad Faruque and other high officials.

Monsur, however, said that the technicians would monitor the pressure of gas and some other parameters for a few more days.

He told the reporters that gas started spewing through pipeline of the exploration well from a five-metre-thick layer at a depth of about 1,400 metres at 8am on Wednesday.

Though he said nothing about the amount of the gas-field's reserve, Monsur hoped that from next March Bapex would be able to supply 10-12 million cubic feet of gas a day to the nearest gas transmission and distribution network at Maijdi in Noakhali.

'In the meantime, Bapex will set up a gas separator, connect the pipeline and build other infrastructure,' he added.

Mortuza claimed that the gas produced from the newly discovered field would help to meet Chittagong's demand.

Monsur said that Bapex would conduct three-dimensional seismic surveys of the area for finding other potential gas-laden sand layers that are deeper than the newly discovered layer.

Bapex will drill a number of gas production wells in accordance with the report of the seismic survey.

Bapex's technicians did not find gas in the other two layers that lie at the depth of 3,196-3,220 metres and 3,118-3,121 metres in Sundulpur area which is under Hydrocarbon Block-15.

The company took eight months to discover the fruitful layer after it started drilling the exploration well at Sundulpur. The project cost was estimated to be Tk 73.76 crore.

Bapex, however, had to spend about two and half a month to recover the pipes and tools from a depth of about three kilometres as the pipes on April 14 got jammed when it was drilling the exploration well.

During the present government's regime, two exploration wells were drilled — one by Bapex at Sundulpur and other by international oil company Chevron at Charkajal in Patuakhali district in Hydrocarbon Block-7.

Chevron did not found gas in the well it drilled this year and so relinquished the block to Petrobangla.

In 2009, Bapex conducted 200 line-kilometre seismic surveys over the region before finding the drilling location for its exploration well.

Source : New Age

JS body blames BRTA for traffic accidents

The parliamentary standing committee on the labour and employment ministry on Wednesday blamed the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority for frequent traffic accidents.

The committee at a meeting also set up a sub-committee to investigate unauthorised toll collection and extortion in the transport sector by associations of transport workers and owners in different places, sources attending the meeting said.

The sources said that the meeting had discussed road communications and frequent traffic accidents in recent times. It observed that irregularities and negligence of the road transport agency in issuing driving licences to properly trained drivers was responsible for the accidents, the sources said.

Expressing their concerns about the frequent accidents, the committee members said that the agency had issued registration for 44,000 vehicles on an average a year but it issues only 11,000 driving licences a year, which prompted untrained people to run vehicles that cause such accidents.

They recommended that the government should take effective measures in this regard.

The committee also observed that the associations of transport workers, transport owners and other quarters were involved in unauthorised toll collection and extortion which created indiscipline in the transport sector.

It also formed a three member sub-committee headed by its chairman Israfil Alam to investigate unauthorised toll collection and asked the committee to submit a detailed report in six weeks with recommendations.

Other members of the committee are Shahuduzzaman Sarker and Rawshan Jahan Sathi.

'Associations of transport owners and workers are realising unauthorised toll indiscriminately which created indiscipline in the transport sector,' the committee chair, Israfil Alam, told reporters after the meeting.

He said that as per the labour law, the decision for collecting any tolls should be approved at the annual general meeting of the association but they were collecting tolls at their will.

'We have formed a sub-committee to investigate the matter,' the committee chair said, adding that the committee would investigate the toll collection and other violations of labour law by transport owners and workers.

The committee members criticised the transport owners for enforcing strike without notice in violation of Section 209 of the labour law.

The meeting also requested the ministry to take necessary measures to ensure wages and allowance of workers in different sectors including apparel industries before Eid.

Committee members Monnujan Sufian, also the state minister for labour and employment, Nasim Osman, Nani Gopal Mandal and Rawshan Jhan Sathi and high officials of the ministry attended the meeting.

Source : New Age

AL fails to win support of small parties, Islamic groups

The informal initiatives the ruling Awami League took to win support of small political parties, which include some Islamic organisations, as a part of its move to expand the alliance failed to get a positive response.

Leaders of a number of political parties either directly or indirectly expressed their reluctance at joining the ruling alliance while the Islamic political parties tagged the condition of the retention of the phrase 'absolute trust and faith in the Almighty Allah' in the preamble to the constitution to their joining the alliance, sources in the Awami League and political parties concerned said.

A few of the political parties, however, remained silent in this regard, according to sources in the Awami League.

The failure to win the support is now prompting AL leaders to re-think the issue to establish an effective communication with the parties further after Eid, they said.

The Liberal Democratic Party chairman, Oli Ahmed, directly expressed his interest in joining movements with the opposition alliance led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

'Both the parties came to me but I have already given commitment to the BNP leaders,' Oli Ahmed told New Age.

He said that a three member committee, led by the LDP secretary general, had already held three meetings with the BNP delegation, led by its secretary general, to decide the ways to work together and wage movements against the government.

The Krishak Sramik Janata League president, Abdul Kader Siddiq, told New Age on Sunday, 'I am working inside my party and preparing myself to make a decision. The decision will be taken in due time.'

the Bangladesh Kalyan Party chairman, Syed Muhammad Ibrahim, said that his party had received invitation from both the Awami League and the BNP but his party had finally decided to support the BNP in its movement demanding the reinstatement of the caretaker government provision.

'As we want the caretaker government provision reinstated, we have decided to express solidarity with the BNP in the caretaker government movement,' he told New Age, adding that AL leader Obaidul Quader and BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir had communicated with him separately.

The Awami League in July communicated with some political parties to form a common platform before the next general elections to face the BNP-led alliance politically.

AL presidium member Obaidul Quader, organising secretary Jahangir Kabir Nanok, office secretary Abdul Mannan Khan, environment affair secretary Hasan Mahmud, religious affairs secretary Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and chairman of a faction of the Islami Oikya Jote, also a component of the AL-led alliance, Misbahur Rahman Chowdhury separately communicated with the political parties, including Liberal Democratic Party, Krishak Sramik Janata League, Kalyan Party, Bikalpadhara Bangladesh and Gana Forum and groups informally in the initial stage but failed to get any positive response.

Obaidul Quader, however, brushed aside the proposition that the move was meant for expansion of the alliance. He rather said that it was a move to reach an understanding with the political parties on some common national issues.

'Although we did not get positive response from all, such an understanding was essential to create a friendly political atmosphere,' Quader told New Age, adding that they held informal communications and it would be more fruitful if formal discussions could be held.

'It is a wrong concept that we are trying to expand our alliance as it is not the time for alliance expansion and it could be considered later before the polls,' he said.

He said that the ruling party was just trying to create a stable political situation and it would also communicate with the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

'But at this moment we are thinking about improving our relationship with the components of the alliance as a gap has already been created with them on some issues,' said Quader, adding that the Awami League would take a move to narrow the gap with its components after Eid.

Islami Oikya Jote leader Misbahur Rahman Chowdhury also held meetings with the leaders of the Islami Andalon Bangladesh, Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish, Bangladesh Khelafat Andalon, Islami Oikya Andalon, Bangladesh Islamic Party and Olama Mashayekh Parishad expressing the Awami League's interest in holding dialogues with them but he did not get any positive response.

Misbahur told New Age that he had informed the prime minister of the development of the meetings with the Islamic organisations.

'Leaders of the seven organisations set a condition to the dialogue that the government should retain phrase "Absolute trust and faith in the Almighty Allah" in the constitution,' he told New Age, adding that he would sit with the Islamic organisations before Eid.

The Awami League's religious affairs secretary Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah said that any direct move to with the support of the Islamic parties was yet to be taken but the move will be taken soon.

Source : New Age

Govt asked to explain failure to ensure road safety

The High Court on Wednesday asked the government to explain its failure to ensure safety on the roads and to repair the damaged highways throughout the country.

The bench of Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Justice Md Nuruzzaman asked the government to submit a report to it by October 17 on the steps taken to ensure road safety and repair the country's roads.

It posted October 18 for the hearing of the government's reply to the rule.

The court also asked the communications secretary, Roads and Highways Department's chief engineer and Bangladesh Road Transport Authority's chairman to explain what action they had taken in connection with the reported issuance of licences to aspiring drivers without making them undergo the necessary tests.

It referred to a report in the Prothom Alo on August 15, which stated that 'the shipping minister's pressure caused issuance 10,000 driving licences without the conducting of any tests last year, and now he wants issuance of 24,500 more licences without any tests'.

They will also need to submit a report on the driving licences issued in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

The BRTA's chairman was also asked to submit a report detailing the road accidents that had occurred till 2010.

The court asked the government to provide several more items of information, including the measures taken to prevent road accidents on the 216 'black spots' on major highways identified by the Roads and Highways Department, the accidents that occurred till 2010 and the steps taken for investigating them.

The government was asked to report to the court about how many licences had been issued for heavy and light vehicles in the last five years and whether any tests had been conducted to examine the fitness of the licence-holders.

The court also wanted to know whether any medical tests of the drivers had been conducted to ascertain their physical fitness and whether any tests had been conducted to examine the fitness of the vehicles.

The government will also need to explain the criteria followed for renewal of the licences.

It was asked to detail the measures taken against the running of unfit vehicles, drivers having no valid licences or talking over mobile phones while driving.

It will need to detail the measures taken against the drivers and people in the front seats for not fastening their seatbelts.

The government was also asked to detail the latest situation of the implementation of the recommendations made by the road safety committees.

The court also wanted to know whether any investigation was conducted or any action taken against the people engaged in ensuring road safety for their failure.

The government will also need to detail the budgetary allocations for the Roads and Highways Department for the last five years, their expenditures and the programmes taken up or implemented for development of the roads.

The court asked the Accident Research Institute of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology to submit a report by October 17, detailing the causes of road accidents and making recommendations for their prevention.

The court passed the orders after hearing a writ petition filed on August 14 by the Bangladesh Bar Council's Legal Aid and Human Rights Committee's chairman ZI Khan, Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust and Supreme Court lawyer Abantee Nurul.

The petition was filed a day after internationally acclaimed film director Tareque Masud, ATN News' chief executive officer Ashfaque Mishuk Munier and three others were killed in a road accident at Ghior in Manikganj on August 13.

Former attorney general Mahmudul Islam, the petitioner's counsel, told the court that the petitioners were shocked by the alarming incidence of road accidents across the country, which has been reported widely in newspapers and broadcast on the TV channels.

The petitioners are also alarmed by the failure of the authorities concerned to discharge their statutory duty to take appropriate measures to investigate road accidents, take action including prosecution against those responsible, and ensure redress to those affected, he said.

The counsel argued that road accidents continue to increase in frequency due to the failure of the authorities to enforce the Motor Vehicles Ordinance 1983, the Highways Act 1925, the Vehicles Act 1927, the Road Transport Corporation Ordinance 1961, the Police Act 1861 and Highway Police Rules 2005.

The failure of the government to enforce the relevant laws and rules is complete violation of the fundamental rights of persons to equality before law, life and personal liberty, which include the right to safety on the roads and highways, as guaranteed under Articles 27, 31 and 32 of the Constitution, he argued.

Mahmudul Islam, along with Sara Hossain and Iqbal Kabir, moved the petition, while additional attorney general MK Rahman appeared for the government.

Source : New Age

Woman beaten to death

A woman was beaten to death by her husband at Rahimabad village under Bagerhat Sadar upazila on Monday evening. She was identified as Muslim Begum, 23, second wife of Sheikh Abdul Alim and daughter of Sheikh Amir Ali of Bagmara village under the upazila. According to Officer-in-Charge Moazzem Hossain of Bagerhat Sadar Police Station, the woman, mother of a child, was tortured to death by her husband Abdul Alim. He fled the hospital soon after doctor on emergency duty declared her dead, OC Moazzem said. Mohsina's father Sheikh Amir Ali lodged a case with the police station concerned at 3:00pm yesterday, accusing her husband Abdul Alim.

Source : The Daily Star