3 jailed for embezzling聽Tk 6.58cr in Khulna
A Khulna court on Thursday handed down different jail terms to three individuals for embezzling over Tk 6.58 crore from Sonali Bank PLC in Khulna...
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Sarkozy protected by two bodyguards in jail
France鈥檚 interior minister on Wednesday confirmed former president Nicolas Sarkozy would be protected by two security officers while serving jail time in a criminal conspiracy case involving Libya...
Building in Dhaka Cantt declared makeshift prison
The government has declared a building in Dhaka Cantonment a makeshift prison.
Govt works to free 25 Bangladeshis from UAE jail
Expatriates welfare and overseas employment ministry has been continuing all legal and diplomatic efforts to free 25 Bangladeshis languishing in prisons in Abu Dhabi of United Arab Emirates...
3 AL leaders sent to jail in Jhenaidah
A JHENAIDAH court on Monday sent three Awami League leaders, including a former upazila chairman, in connection with four separate cases, including the killing of party activists and vandalism and arson at the district BNP office...
Govt considers shorter terms for lifers, release of elderly inmates
The government is considering reducing the 30-year jail term for life-sentenced prisoners and releasing some elderly inmates after reviewing their sentences...
Ex-DIG Nahidul sent to jail in ICT case
A Dhaka court on Saturday sent former deputy inspector general AKM Nahidul Islam to jail in a case filed with the International Crimes Tribunal...
Nine extremists among 700 escaped inmates still in hiding
Inspector general of prisons Brigadier General Syed Md Motaher Hossain on Tuesday revealed that nine militants were among 700 inmates who remained absconding till now after a jailbreak during the past year鈥檚 political unrest.
WRITER AVIJIT MURDER CASE:聽Farabi freed from jail on bail
Shafiur Rahman Farabi, who was sentenced to life term imprisonment in the case of killing writer and blogger Avijit Roy, was on Friday released from Kashimpur High-Security Central Jail on bail.
5 to die, 4 jailed till death in Dr Nitai murder case
A Dhaka court on Sunday sentenced five people to death and another four to imprisonment till natural death in a case filed over the 2012 murder of National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital associate professor Narayan Chandra Nitai...
Prime accused SI Akbar gets bail in custodial death case
Sub-inspector Akbar Hossain Bhuiyan, prime suspect in a custodial death case, was released on bail from the Sylhet Central Jail on Sunday...
3 death-row inmates attempt escape from Kashimpur prison
Three death row inmates at the Kashimpur high security central jail in Gazipur attempted to escape by digging through the prison walls using improvised tools, according to prison authorities.
List of July prisoners, jail code reform demanded
July uprising protesters who were imprisoned during the uprising last year have demanded a list from the government of those who were incarcerated and also pressed for reforms in the Jail Code...
Govt urged to bring back July protesters from UAE jail
Bangladeshi migrants who were arrested and jailed in the UAE in July 2024 and returned home receiving special pardon demanded that the government bring back the rest 26 migrants who are still in jail...
Justice Khairul, Prof Barakat share room in jail
Former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque and economist professor Abul Barkat have been sharing same building as division 1 inmates of the Dhaka Central Jail at Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital...
Prisoner dies at DMCH
An inmate of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital Thursday morning.
Kanu Miah freed after passing 30yrs in jail without trial
Kanu Miah, a mentally disabled man, finally returned home on Tuesday noon after passing more than 30 years in Habiganj District Jail without trial in a murder case...
Mentally unstable person freed after spending 30 years in jail
After spending more than three decades behind bars, 60-year-old Kanu Mia walked out of Habiganj District Jail on Tuesday morning.
Global press freedom groups back jailed Georgian journalist
The world鈥檚 top press freedom groups on Sunday threw their support behind a jailed Georgian journalist, warning that her prosecution signalled deepening repression as Tbilisi cracks down on dissenting voices...
Anisul, Salman, Nazrul sent to jail after remand
The Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Friday sent former law minister Anisul Huq, ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 former adviser Salman F Rahman, and former EXIM Bank chairman Nazrul Islam Mazumder, also the chairman of...
Four jailed, fined for illegal sand extraction in Kushtia
A mobile court in Kushtia鈥檚 Kumarkhali upazila has sentenced two people to one month in jail for illegally extracting sand from the Padma River...
Upazila BNP president among 9 sent to jail
A Sylhet court on Sunday sent nine people, including Jaintapur upazila unit president of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, to jail in a case filed on charge of attacking army personnel...
Gaan Bangla TV chair Taposh freed a day after HC bail
Gaan Bangla Television chairman Kaushik Hossain Taposh was released from Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj on Wednesday evening, just a day after the High Court granted him interim bail in a case linked to the July 2024 mass uprising...
Former JUST VC lands in jail in graft case
Professor Md Abdus Sattar, former vice-chancellor of the Jashore University of Science and Technology, was taken into the custody of Jashore Central Jail on Monday in a graft case...
Ex-UP chairman found hanging at Dhaka Central Jail
An inmate of Dhaka Central Jail was declared dead at the emergency unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Sunday afternoon as he was taken there in critical condition...
200 inmates escape Pak jail in quake panic
More than 200 Pakistani inmates escaped from a jail in the mega coastal city of Karachi on Tuesday after several earthquake tremors, government officials said...
Chattogram court allows quizzing of Chinmoy at jail gate
A Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate court has allowed the police to interrogate Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, spokesperson of Bangladesh Sammilita Sanatan Jagran, at the jail gate in connection with violence on the court premises in November last year...
Court allows police to interrogate Chinmoy at jail gate
A metropolitan magistrate court in Chattogram on Monday allowed the police to interrogate Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, the spokesperson of the Bangladesh Sammilit Sanatan Jagran, in connection with a case filed over an attack on the police and vandalising vehicles on Chattogram court premises in late November in the past year...
Prisoner dies at Gopalganj hospital after falling ill in jail
A prisoner of Gopalganj district jail who fell sick in the jail died at 250-bed Gopalganj General Hospital on Wednesday...
Bangladesh jail authority embarks on renewable energy initiative
The Bangladesh Prison Directorate has signed a contract with a consortium led by Mover Solar and Renewable Energy Ltd to implement solar energy systems across the country鈥檚 prisons, beginning with Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj as a pilot project.
