Staff Reporter: A business partner sued to expatriate instrumentalisht for threatening to kill him by posting pictures of pistols using Photoshop technology in New York, USA. The Bengali news portal ‘Bangla Press’ published several investigative reports in Bengali and English on the fake arms case filed five months ago. Defendant’s lawyer, US Attorney Cary London, praised the investigative reports of Bangla Press. He described the news published in Bangla Press as an ‘Amazing Article’.
After the fake arms case was dismissed in a criminal court in New York on January 12, US Attorney Cary London thanked the Bangla Press and said that the investigative reports of the Bangla Press had helped him a lot. He said he had submitted several reports to the District Attorney’s Office (DA) and that the District Attorney had forwarded them to the court as Court Witness (CW).
Homecare and insursnce businessman Shahnawaz falsely complained to his business partner in New York City Police Department’s Northern Boulevard-115 area police at 1:29 am on September 10 last year that he had taken a photo of New York expatriate instrumentalist Partha Gupta from Facebook and placed a pistol next to the photo in Photoshop.
Shahnawaz alleged to police that he had sent a text message threatening to kill (murder) and threatened to shoot him with a pistol after a program. In support of this he showed to police the picture of pistol on the bed next to picture of Partha Gupta.
Two months earlier on August 29, at a street fair organized by Bangladeshis on 76-37 Street in Jackson Heights, he was beaten by a group of people, including a popular instrumentalist Partha Gupta a former partner of Golden Age Home Care, at around 6:30 pm. During this time they displayed dangerous devices (pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns or machine guns) intended to kill him (case docket number- ‘CR-020560-21QN’). He wants police help to secure his life. He complained to the police about the death threat. Following the allegations Taylor Scala, a police officer in the Northern Boulevard-115 area of Jackson Heights called Partha to the police station for questioning on the evening of October 4 last year. After receiving a phone call, Partha Gupta voluntarily went to police station and detained him at Northern Boulevard-115 police station till night after interrogation.
The next day on October 5, Partha Gupta was sent to the nearest criminal court and the wise judge granted him bail. The court also directed to maintain distance from the plaintiff Shahnawaz.
Shahnawaz, a New York home care and insurance businessman, dismissed the case (CR-020560-21QN), arranged and planned by Mary L. Bejarano, a wise judge of the Queens County Criminal Court in New York, for failing to prove the allegations against him. The court also acquitted businessman and instrumentalist Partha Gupta.
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