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A gang of cheats is now deceiving the common people and small traders by counterfeit currency notes in the south-western districts.
   In the past few days, some forged notes of Tk 500 and Tk 100 denominations were reportedly given to some traders in exchange of goods. Some people were also allegedly provided with counterfeit notes.
   Sources said such notes are of high quality, and it is very difficult for the common people to identify whether they are fakes as the notes even bear watermarks.
   The cheats usually hand over the fake notes either with other original notes or during busy hours. The people become easy victims of the cheats as they can’t identify whether the notes are fake or not.
   Some traders at Barabazaar in the Khulna city alleged that they have recently got some counterfeit notes of Tk 500 denominations, but they have either destroyed or burnt them to avoid harassment by the police. They are now taking big notes after checking, they added.
   The police arrested one Jamir Uddin Gazi with two forged notes of Tk 500 denominations from Agorghata Bazaar under Paikgacha upazila in Khulna on August 26 while one Shahidul Islam alias Shahid from Daratana Road under sadar upazila in Jessore with 54 fake notes of Tk 500 on August 27.
   Another cheat, Kumaresh Roy alias Tuhin, was arrested with 190 counterfeit notes of Tk 100 denominations from Pather Bazaar under the Khan Jahan Ali police area in Khulna on September 4.
   The police sources said Tuhin gave some important information to police about the providers of the forged notes during the interrogation.
   Abdur Razzaq, an assistant commissioner of the Khulna Metropolitan Police, said that they have information about the gang of criminals. ‘The police will be able to nab the gang members soon,’ he hoped.

Four suspected crime suspects were beaten to death in Comilla and Jhenaidah on Sunday night.
   The UNB, a private news agency, reports:
   Three suspected robbers were beaten to death by a mob and two others injured at Mujaffarganj under Laksham upazila in Comilla on Sunday night.
   The police said a five-member gang looted a medicine-carrying covered van on Comilla-Chandpur road. While getting away in a private car, people of Mujaffarganj Bazar chased the highwaymen.
   At one stage of driving at a break-neck speed, the driver lost control over the steering and the getaway car rammed light-post, leaving all the robbers injured.
   The mob beat them severely, leaving three of them dead on the spot at about 10:00pm.
   The deceased could not be identified immediately.
   Two other injured were taken to Upazila Health Complex in critical condition.
   The police seized two knives and two machetes from the car.
   A case was filed.
   New Age Jhenaidah correspondent adds: A mob lynched a suspected cow lifter and critically injured two of his accomplices at Moheshpur in Jhenaidah on Sunday night.
   The deceased was identified as Babu Mia, 35, of Karargasi under Chaogasa upazila in Jhenaidah. The injured are identified as Shakhawat and Atiar of the same village.
   Local sources said local people caught the three suspected cow lifters when they came to the village along with a stolen cow.
   The mob severely beat them up until the police rescued the three from the spot early Monday.
   Of the injured Babu died on his way to Jhenaidah Sadar Hospital.

Pest attack has severely damaged aman plants at different places under all the six upazilas in Kushtia shattering the hope of the farmers of a good harvest this season.
   Pests, which are locally called mazra, pamri and chonga have destroyed aman plants on several thousand hectares of land at Mirpur, Bheramara, Kumarkhali, Khoksha and sadar upazilas in the district. The pests are cutting the roots of the man plants and leaves of the plants. The pest attacked plants have turned yellow and white at some places.
   Some farmers complained that they were unable to combat the menace of pests even by spraying pesticides as per the directives of the concerned officials.
   The officials of the Department of the Agriculture Extension attributed to pest attack on a massive scale on adequate rainfall. The severity of the pest attack would be reduced if there was sufficient rainfall, they added.

Three persons were killed as a motorbike crashed into a bus at Gangawardi on Dhaka-Khulna Highway on Monday.
   The police and witnesses said the accident took place when the Dhaka-bound bus from Khulna dashed the motorbike carrying three youths at about 2:45pm.
   One of the youths — Mithu, 22, — died on the spot, while two others — Kamrul, 24, and Wasim, 22, — died on way to hospital.
   The police recovered the bodies and sent those to a hospital morgue.
   The bus driver fled the scene along with his vehicle.
   Meanwhile, a little boy was killed and another injured as a bus ran over them at Chouala in the Narsingdi town on the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway on Monday.
   The police said a bus knocked Shafiqul, 10, and his younger brother Jahirul, 8, killing the latter on the spot.
   Injured Shafiqul was first taken to Sadar Hospital and then shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
   Separate cases were filed with the police.

The Bangladesh Rifles filed a case against the president of Khulna Divisional Tank Lorry Owners’ Association, Yusuf Ali Gendu, owner of Karpasdanga Filling Station, for his alleged involvement in smuggling of fuel into India.
   Police sources said BDR members caught Harun-ur-Rashid, 28, of village Fulbari under Damurhuda upazila, with polythene bags containing 36 litres of diesel during smuggling into India.
   During interrogation, Harun told the police that he had bought those bags of diesel from Gendu’s filling station.
   The BDR handed Harun over to the police and filed a case against him and Gendu under Smuggling Prevention Act.
   The Damurhuda Fulbari BOP commander, Nayek subedar Abul Bashar, filed the case with the Damurhuda police.
   Gendu termed the case planned and conspiratorial and said he would go to the court.
   The Chuadanga-Meherpur Jalani Tel Paribeshak Samity and Tank Lorry Malik Samity demanded immediate withdrawal of the case.

Some angry contractors confined an engineer of the Local Government Engineering Department in a room at Sailkupa upazila Monday for giving work order for the construction of a bridge without inviting any tender.
   The contractors alleged that Shamsur Rahman, upazila engineer of the LGED at Sailkupa, and an accountant of the same department secretly gave work order for the construction of Ratanpur bridge involving Tk 77 lakh to a contractor of their choice by taking huge amount of bribe from him.
   The concerned engineer did not publish the tender notice for the construction of the bridge in any newspaper, they said.
   The upazila engineer fled the scene after the incident.

The Myanmar border security force, Nasaka, abducted seven Bangladeshi fishermen from the River Naf at Dakhilakhalichar adjacent to Naikhyangchari upazila on Sunday evening.
   The abducted fishermen were identified as Mir Ahmed, 45, Nurul Kabir, 27, Monu Alam, 18, Oli Hossain, 19, Abu Taher, 45, Badshah Miah, 40, and Nurul Alam, 30.
   Sources in the Bangladesh Rifles said the Nasaka men picked them up while they were fishing in the river.
   The family members of the victims and the local union council chairman also confirmed the abduction incident.
   The BDR lodged protest with a note of warning and asked the Nasaka to release the abducted fishermen immediately, sources added.

The police on Monday arrested a person in possession of four kilograms of hemp in front of the Kurigram Textile Mills.
   The police and witnesses said one Sarwar Rahman, 35, of village Gobardhan Kuti under Nageswari upazila and his aide Mohir Uddin alias Sajjan were coming to the Kurigram town with the hemp.
   Tipped-off, Kurigram Narcotics Control Department Officials went to the spot and held Sarwar. But his aide Mohir Uddin managed to escape leaving two more kgs of hemp.
   Two separate cases were filed. The police sent Sarwar to jail.