Govt moves for online case recording
The government has initiated a move to introduce online case filing, aiming at modernising policing and reducing public harassment in filing cases with police stations...
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Legal notoriety of cases against hundreds unnamed should end
THE legacy of filing cases against hundreds of unnamed people, as has been by successive governments, including the authoritarian Awami League government, regrettably persists. After the Awami League regime was toppled in an uprising, it was expected that the abuse of legal devices would end. But the legacy, unfortunately, continues apace. In the recent examples, the...
2 new Covid cases reported in 24 hours
The Directorate General of Health Services on Wednesday confirmed two new Covid cases in the country over a 24-hour period from till 8:00am on Wednesday...
Ex-ASP Kafi remanded in BNP activist murder case
A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed former additional superintendent of police Abdullah Hil Kafi and former detective branch inspector聽Arafat Hossain on a two-day remand each in connection with the killing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party activist Mamun Khandaker in Ashulia during the July-August mass uprising...
GOPALGANJ VIOLENCE : Four murder cases filed against 5,400 unnamed people
The police have filed four cases with Gopalganj sadar police station against 5,400 unnamed people over the killings of four people, out of five, in the July 16 violence in Gopalganj town centering the National Citizen Party rally...
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...
4,000 people named in Habiganj murder case
About 4,000 people, including a leader of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, were sued on Friday over the death of an ambulance driver on July 7 during a clash between inhabitants of two villages under Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj...
Probe report submission deferred for 119th times
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Tuesday fixed August 11 for submitting the investigation report of the much-talked about murder case of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi as the Police Bureau of Investigation could not submit the report...
Apple loses bid to dismiss major US antitrust case
A federal judge on Monday denied Apple鈥檚 motion to dismiss a major antitrust lawsuit brought by the US government, allowing the case challenging the tech giant鈥檚 alleged smartphone monopoly to move forward...
Police seek to interrogate 4 under pornography law
The Muradnagar police in Cumilla on Monday produced the four people arrested under the Pornography Control Act over the rape of a Hindu woman and circulation of the video of the crime, asking for a seven-day remand for each...
Crisis of false and frivolous cases
OVER the past year, an unsettling pattern has emerged in the landscape of justice. Serious criminal charges, particularly murder, assault, extortion and sedition, are filed not solely in pursuit of justice but, increasingly, as instruments of coercion, retaliation and harassment. The right to legal recourse, a fundamental pillar of any democratic society, is now at the risk of...
German FA fined in WC tax evasion case
A German court on Wednesday fined the domestic football association DFB聽130,000 euros ($150,000) in a tax evasion case linked to suspicious payments around the 2006 World Cup...
Ex-RAB director shown arrested in ICT case
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday showed retired Rear Admiral Muhammad Sohail, former Rapid Action Battalion media wing director, arrested in a case over crimes against humanity...
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...
1,48,227 cases disposed of through ADR
Through the alternative dispute resolutions under the National Legal Aid Services Organisation, a total of 1,48,227 cases have been disposed of across the country.
Subrata Bain, Molla Masud placed on police remand
A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed top crime suspect Subrata Bain on eight-day remand in police custody in a case filed with the Hatirjheel police over possession of illegal arms...
NCA freezes Sheikh Rehana鈥檚 London home sale
The National Crime Agency has taken the first step in Britain in a corruption case embroiling ex-city minister Tulip Siddiq, by freezing any future sale of her mother鈥檚 home, reports The Mail...
US, Boeing reach deal to resolve MAX criminal case
The Justice Department said Friday it reached a preliminary agreement with Boeing to settle a long-running criminal probe into deadly 737 MAX crashes, drawing condemnation from some crash victim families...
Probe report deadline extended for 118th time
A Dhaka court on Wednesday set July 8 for filing a probe report in the sensational case lodged over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi, extending the deadline for the 118th time...
Actress Nusraat Faria walks out of jail
Actress Nusraat Faria Mazhar walked out of Kashimpur female鈥檚 Central Jail on Tuesday afternoon hours after she secured bail in an attempt to murder case...
Nusraat Faria sent to jail in attempted murder case
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Monday sent actor Nusraat Faria Mazhar to jail in a case of attempted murder allegedly committed during the July uprising last year.
Anisul, six others shown arrested in more cases
A Dhaka court on Wednesday showed former ministers Anisul Huq, Amir Hossain Amu, Hasanul Haque Inu, Rashed Khan Menon, and three others arrested in seven cases over July movement...
SC defers hearing on govt petition for appeal against Tarique acquittal
The Appellate Division on Sunday deferred until tomorrow the hearing on a government petition for permission to appeal against a High Court verdict that acquitted acting Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairman Tarique Rahman and 48 others in the two August 21 grenade attack cases...
Abrar murdered for difference of opinion: HC
The High Court has released its 131-page full verdict in the murder case of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology student Abrar Fahad, confirming the death sentences of 20 former activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student organisation of the Awami League...
HC sets May 8 to deliver verdict in Ramna Batamul bombing cases
The High Court on Wednesday set May 8 to deliver its judgment on the death references, appeals and jail appeals of the convicts in the Ramna Batamul bombing cases filed over two decades ago...
Fresh murder case against Hasina among 408
A case has been filed against 408 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, for their alleged involvement in the murder of a man during the July-August mass killing...
Ministries to publish list of politically motivated cases recommended for withdrawal
The Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs and the Ministry of Home Affairs, within the next couple of days, will start publishing on website the list of politically motivated cases recommended by a ministry-level committee for withdrawal.
3 accused of sensational murder case held in Ukhia
The Rapid Action Battalion arrested three accused, including the main accused, of a sensational killing case of Kutupalong under Ukhia in Cox鈥檚 Bazar, at Patabari area in the upazila early Saturday...
RAB arrests Rangpur rape case accused in Dhaka
The Rapid Action Battalion arrested the accused on charges of forcibly raping a girl at Pirganj in Rangpur from Azimpur area in Dhaka on Friday...
Two more arrested
The police and the members of the Rapid Action Battalion on Wednesday arrested two more accused in Primeasia University student Jahidul Islam Parvez murder case at separate places in Gaibandha and Chattogram...