HC judge resigns amid SJC probe
High Court judge Md Akhtaruzzaman has tendered his resignation to the president, Mohammad Shahabuddin, amid a Supreme Judicial Council inquiry into his alleged misconduct.
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HC asks govt to identify encroachers, polluters of Dhaleshwari River
The High Court on Sunday directed the government bodies concerned to identify and take action against those responsible for encroachment on and pollution at Dhaleshwari River at Dakhkin Dariapur at Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.
STONE LOOTING:聽HC asks govt to report on probe progress by Oct 22
The High Court on Thursday directed the government to report by October 22 on the progress of investigating the Bholaganj white stone looting, identifying those responsible, and restoring the recovered stones to the riverbank.
CJ administers oaths of 25 newly appointed adl HC judges
The chief justice, Syed Refaat Ahmed, on Tuesday administered oath of offices of 25 newly appointed additional High Court judges...
CJ administers oath to 25 new additional HC judges
Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Tuesday administered the oath of office to 25 newly appointed additional judges of the High Court Division, raising the total number of High Court judges to 113...
Fix, publish prices of essential drugs, HC asks govt
The High Court on Monday directed the government to set and publish the minimum prices of lifesaving medicines.
HC summons Sylhet officials
The High Court on Sunday ordered the Sylhet divisional commissioner and the district鈥檚 deputy commissioner to personally appear before the court and explain their positions on the stone extraction from the protected areas...
HC asks govt to declare UN report historical document
The High Court on Thursday directed the government to declare the UN fact-finding report on human rights violations during the July 2024 mass uprising a historical document...
SC asks ex-Jatrabari SI to surrender in July uprising murder case
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered former Jatrabari police sub-inspector Sazzad Uz Zaman to surrender before the trial court in connection with a murder case linked to the 2024 July鈥揂ugust mass uprising...
HC defers hearing plea to quash ex-CJ Khairul proceedings
The High Court on Sunday deferred until October 29 the hearing of a petition filed by former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque to quash the proceedings related to him in a murder case linked to the July 2024 uprising...
Discharge of HC rule by AD judicial anarchy: SC
In a strongly worded full verdict, the Appellate Division has observed that if it discharges a rule issued by the High Court under article 102 of the constitution the decision amounts to 鈥榡udicial anarchy鈥� and is unconstitutional and void from the outset...
HC seeks Bholaganj stone looters鈥� list
The High Court on Thursday directed the authorities to prepare a list of individuals involved in looting white stones from the Bholaganj stone quarry in Sylhet鈥檚 Companiganj upazila and submit it within 60 days...
HC defers ex-CJ Khairul鈥檚 bail hearing to Aug 17 amid chaos
The High Court on Monday deferred the hearing on former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque鈥檚 bail petition and plea to quash a murder case against him to August 17, following chaos in the courtroom between pro-Awami League lawyers and government law officers.
HC grants Shomi Kaiser bail in another July uprising case
The High Court on Monday granted interim bail to actress and former e-Commerce Association president Shomi Kaiser in the last case she faces over the violence perpetrated during the July uprising...
SI Zahid鈥檚 life term upheld, Rashedul鈥檚 life sentence commuted
The High Court on Monday upheld the life sentence of then sub-inspector Zahidur Rahman Khan in the case over unlawful arrest, torture, and death of Ishtiaque Ahmed Jony, an Urdu-speaking youth, who died in police custody at the Pallabi police station in 2014.
HC begins delivering verdict
The High Court on Sunday began delivering its verdict in a landmark custodial death case involving the killing of Urdu-speaking youth Ishtiaque Ahmed Jony who died in police custody at Pallabi police station in 2014...
Growing case backlog warrants early, effective intervention
THE number of cases pending with the courts has reached a little more than 4.33 million as of March. Subordinate courts have about 3.69 million cases pending, the High Court Division of the Supreme Court 599,000 cases pending and the Appellate Division 34,926 cases, as 抖阴精品 reported on August 10. There were about 4.05 million cases, keeping to Supreme Court...
Judiciary鈥檚 call for independence no bid for hegemony: CJ
Chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Sunday emphasised that the judiciary鈥檚 demand for an independent Supreme Court secretariat should not be read as a bid to grab power, but rather as part of a long-standing struggle for institutional parity with the executive and the legislature.
HC verdict in jony鈥檚 custodial death today
The High Court is scheduled for today to deliver verdict in the appeal filed by three convicted police personnel against a lower court judgement that jailed them for life for the custodial death of car driver Ishtiaq Hossain Jony in 2014...
HC quashes ICT case against Shahidul Alam
The High Court on Thursday quashed the long-pending case filed under widely criticised section 57 of the now-repealed Information and Communication Technology Act 2006 against acclaimed photographer and activist Shahidul Alam...
HC acquits ex-JL leader GK Shamim in money laundering case
The High Court on Thursday acquitted expelled Juba League leader Golam Kibria Shamim alias GK Shamim in the money laundering case...
Gumti must be freed in 6 months: HC
The High Court on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to demolish all illegal structures built in the Gumti River within the next six months...
Supreme Court promotes key judicial reforms in dialogue with law students
The Supreme Court of Bangladesh held a special dialogue on Saturday to engage law students from public universities in ongoing judicial reform efforts...
HC questions govt move to hand over terminal to foreign firm
The High Court on Wednesday asked the government to explain in four weeks why the Chattogram Port Authority鈥檚 move to award the operation of the New Mooring Container Terminal to a foreign company without competitive bidding should not be declared illegal...
HC seeks explanation over inaction over alleged corruption of Asiatic 3sixty
The High Court has asked the government to explain within four weeks why its failure to investigate alleged large-scale corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion by top bosses of the Asiatic 3sixty Group since 2009 should not be declared illegal...
HC orders probe into arrest of nine children over Gopalganj violence
The High Court on Sunday directed the government to form a committee to investigate the arrest of nine individuals alleged to be children in violation of the Children Act, 2013 following the political violence in Gopalganj on July 16, which left five people killed...
HC summons Cumilla SP over failure to update about probe, provide safety to victim
The High Court on Tuesday summoned the Cumilla district superintendent of police to appear before it on August 12 for failing to comply with its earlier order to submit a progress report on the investigation into the rape of a housewife in Muradnagar...
HC bans risky flights over populated areas
The High Court on Tuesday directed the government to form a high-powered technical committee within seven days to investigate the Monday crash of the Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft into a building of a school and college in the capital鈥檚 Uttara area and identify the defects of the training aircraft...
Why Thakurgaon airport won鈥檛 be reopened: HC
The High Court on Sunday asked the authorities concerned to explain in four weeks why Thakurgaon airport, shut down for the last 44 years, should not be reopened in public interest and in the interest of economic development and tourism...
SJAC to hold viva voce for aspiring HC judges on Jul 18, 19
The Supreme Judicial Appointment Council, led by chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed, has scheduled July 18-19 to conduct viva voce interviews of at least 60 shortlisted candidates for the posts of additional High Court judges.
