A CASE was filed on Sunday with the Khulna police against six persons, including five officials of Al-Arafah Islami Bank, Sir Iqbal Road Branch, on charge of misappropriating Tk 15 lakh with forged documents.
   The police said the accused were the former branch manager Mollah Ali Ahmed, incumbent manager Mahtab Ahmed, officers Nazrul Islam, Enayet Hossain, and Rafiqul Islam, and Abul Kalam Azad, owner of Amena Trading on Bhairab Trunk Road.
   One Abdul Quayum of Pabla under Daulatpur in the city filed the case accusing them of cheating him by making forged document for his 0.12 acres of land at Pabla.
   He alleged that the businessman with the connivance of the bank officials misappropriated Tk 15 lakh with by preparing forged document.

Four persons were killed and five injured in separate road accidents in Narayanganj and Kushtia on Sunday.
   Two persons, including a driver of a human hauler, were killed and five injured in a road accident in Narayanganj.
   The police said a Dhaka-bound bus from Panchamighat collided head-on with a Madanpur-bound human hauler at about 10:00am at Jaypur under Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj, killing Ruhul Amin, 38, a passenger of the human hauler on the spot and injuring four others.
   Of them, the driver, whose identity could not be known, died on his way to hospital.
   Three of the injured human hauler passengers were sent to Dhaka, as their conditions deteriorated, while the others were released after first aid.
   Meanwhile, two motorbike riders were crushed under the wheels of a truck in the Bottoil area under Kushtia sadar upazila on Sunday at about 3:30pm.
   The deceased are Rahmat Ali, 52, headmaster of the Maspara Government Primary School, and his brother-in-law Monwar Hossain, 50, president of the Abdalpur union BNP.
   Eyewitnesses said the two motorbike riders died at the spot.
   The police seized the truck and arrested its driver.
   Separate cases were filed with the police.

A Bangladeshi farmer was shot dead by the members of the Border Security Force of India at frontier village of Krishnadah under Sapahar upazila in Naogaon on Sunday.
   The deceased is Hanif Ali, 30, of the same village.
   Locals said the BSF personnel fired around six shots at Hanif when he was working on his crop field at about 11:30am. He died on the spot.
   After the killing, the BSF men took away the body, locals said.
   The Bangladesh Rifles mobilised additional troops along the border after the incident. BDR sources said they lodged a strong protest with the BSF against the killing and demanded immediate return of the body.

Activists of Juba Dal and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the youth and student wings of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party respectively, at Kalapara threatened to kill the daily Bangladesh Observer correspondent of Patuakhali following the publishing of a report on extortion and drug trafficking in the area.
   Md Gofran Biswas, Patuakhali district correspondent of the daily lodged a general diary with Kalapara police on Saturday night.
   Gofran accused Harun, Akkas, of Juba Dal, Badal Mridha and Mamun Sikder of the JCD threatening him over his mobile phone and even in front of the police officer at the police station, while lodging the diary.

Two Awami League men were injured in an attack by BNP activists at two places in the Bagerhat town on Saturday and Sunday.
   The local Awami League claimed that the injured — Imran Ali, 19, of the Rail Road area and Ashish Pal, 30, of the Muniganj area — are their party activists.
   The AL said Imran came under the attack near his residence at about 9:30pm on Saturday. He was admitted to Bagerhat Sadar Hospital. As his condition deteriorated, he was referred to Khulna Medical College Hospital.
   The BNP activists also attacked Ashish near his residence at about 10:00am on Sunday as he failed to pay toll demanded by them, said his family members.
   He was admitted to Bagerhat Sadar Hospital.
   The Bagerhat police said the family members of the victims on Sunday made complaints to them in these connections.
   BNP lawmaker MAH Selim, also president of the Bagerhat district BNP, told New Age that he was unaware of the incident.

A Pabna court on Sunday sentenced three young men to five years’ rigorous imprisonment for snatching about four month ago.
   The convicts are Sajib, Ripon and Mahbub. They all are inhabitants of village Ahmedpur under Sujanagar upazila of the district.
   The prosecution said the convicts intercepted a passer-by, Rashidul Hasan, at Kashinatpur bus stand on the Dhaka-Pabna Highway on December 18, 2005 and snatched money and a mobile phone set from him.
   Hasan then filed a case with the police. The police arrested the three and after investigation charge-sheeted against them.
   Speedy Trial Tribunal judge Motiur Rahman delivered the verdict.