Six witnesses testify in Niko graft case against Khaleda, seven others
Six more witnesses testified on Tuesday in the Niko corruption case filed against Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and seven others...
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Ex-officer of Bangladesh Army Ziaul to be grilled over murders of Sagar, Runi
All set to interrogate major general (sacked) Ziaul Ahsan and former deputy commissioner of the detective branch of police鈥檚 Lalbagh zone Moshiur Rahman in the case lodged over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Nahar Runi...
FILING BASELESS CASES: Interim govt introduces fascist culture: JSD
Leaders of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD, a partner of the Ganatantra Mancha at a protest rally in Dhaka on Tuesday alleged that the interim government headed by Professor Muhammad Yunus had introduced fascist culture by filing baseless cases like the Sheikh Hasina-led government...
Case filed over FF assault
A case was filed on Wednesday evening in connection with an incident of assault of freedom fighter Abdul Hai Kanu at Chauddagram in Cumilla.
Murder case filed over clash on Ijtema ground
At least one case has been filed against 29 named and several hundred unnamed people following the death of four people in a violent clash over establishing control over the Ijtema ground at Tongi in Gazipur on Wednesday...
Court asks Shakib to appear in cheque fraud case
A Dhaka court summoned cricketer and former Awami League lawmaker Shakib Al Hasan and three other people in a cheque dishonour case...
Enforced Disappearance: Victims killed or jailed in fictitious cases
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance in its first interim report has found that most victims were either killed or ended up in jail implicated in fictitious cases...
10-Truck Arms Haul: HC acquits Babar, Nizami, 4 others
The High Court on Wednesday acquitted former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and five others and commuted the death sentence of United Liberation Front of Asom leader Paresh Barua to life-term imprisonment in one of two cases filed for 2004 Chattogram 10-truck arms haul...
Shamim Osman, GM Quader聽among 145 sued
A case of attempted murder has been filed against 145 Awami League leaders and activists, including former lawmaker Shamim Osman and Jatiya Party chairman GM Quader, in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj.
Early hearing plea in Chinmoy case rejected
A Chattogram Court has dismissed three applications, including a plea to expedite a hearing, submitted on behalf of Sammilita Sanatani Jagran Jote spokesperson Chinmoy Krishna Das, who was arrested in a sedition case on allegations of desecrating the national flag...
Lanka welcomes US sanctions on former ruling clan
Sri Lanka鈥檚 new government on Tuesday welcomed US sanctions against two senior figures from the former ruling Rajapaksa family over two notorious graft cases involving aircraft purchases...
Former ministers Qamrul, Menon, three others shown arrested new cases
A Dhaka court on Monday showed former ministers Advocate Qamrul Islam and Rashed Khan Menon and three others arrested in fresh cases filed with different police stations in the capital...
Ex-AL MP, OC among 469 sued in Rajshahi
A case was filed against 469 people including former Awami League lawmaker for Rajshahi-1 constituency Omar Faruk Chowdhury and Godagari Police Station鈥檚 former officer-in-charge Abdul Matin for...
Two accused remanded in lawyer Saiful Islam Alif murder case
A Chattogram court on Friday granted a 7-day remand for the prime suspect and another accused in the lawyer Saiful Islam Alif murder case.聽
Khaleda, 24 others acquitted in attempt to murder case
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Wednesday acquitted BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and 25 others in an attempt to murder case...
End political vengeance: Tarique聽
Hours after his acquittal by the High Court in the August 21 grenade attack case, Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Sunday said that the beauty of truth is that...
Uprising criminal cases should have sound legal footing
THE wholesale filing of cases in connection with murder of and attacks on protesters that took place in July鈥揂ugust and flaws in the filing of the cases stand to harm justice and allow perpetrators to escape unpunished. The police say that more than 2,500 cases have been filed until mid-November in connection with the murders and attacks during the uprising, noting that about 8,000 people have also...
Flawed, wholesale cases may hinder justice
The filing of flawed and wholesale cases over the murders of and attacks on protesters during the student-people uprising is likely to hinder justice and pave the way for perpetrators to escape punishment.
Murder case filed as protests on over killing of lawyer on Ctg court premises
Four days after lawyer Saiful Islam Alif had been hacked to death in Chattogram, a murder case was filed with the Kotwali police against 31 named and 10鈥�15 unidentified people early Saturday...
HC begins hearing death reference
The High Court on Thursday commenced the hearing of the death reference in the murder case of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology鈥檚 student Abrar Fahad...
HC grants bail to ex-SP Babul Akhter
The High Court on Wednesday granted ad interim bail to former police super Babul Akhter in Mahmuda Khan Mitu murder case...
BIZ Verse 2024 ends at BRAC University
The grand finale of BIZ Verse 2024, a prestigious national-level inter-university business case competition, concluded successfully at BRAC University recently...
Ex-ministers Anisul, Qamrul, Shahid put on fresh remand
A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed former law minister Anisul Huq and former food minister Qamrul Islam on fresh remand in two separate murder cases...
Khaleda Zia acquitted in two cases
Former prime minister and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia was acquitted in two cases related to the Barapukuria coalmine and the Zia Charitable Trust on Wednesday...
Lawyer killed in clash over sending Chinmoy to jail
A lawyer was killed and 25 others injured during a clash between followers of former ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari and law enforcement agencies on the Chattogram court premises on Tuesday over sending Chinmoy to jail in...
Gautam Adani, nephew summoned by US SEC in bribery case
Gautam Adani of Adani group and his nephew Sagar Adani have been summoned by the US Securities and Exchange Commission to explain their stand on allegation of paying $265 million in bribes to secure lucrative solar power contracts, news agency PTI reported...
Legality of media trials in Bangladesh
A RECENT incident in Bangladesh shocked people after the media reported that a young man had killed his mother and stored her body in a refrigerator. The news portrayed him as a cold-blooded murderer. However, later investigations revealed that some neighbours, not the son, were responsible for the crime. Despite this, the earlier reports...
Woman held for falsely claiming husband as uprising martyr
Police managed to arrest Kulsum Begum, who filed a false case over her husband鈥檚 death during July-August mass uprising, whereas he is perfectly healthy and alive and appeared before the law enforcers himself.
Murder attempt case filed against Hasina, aides
An attempt to murder case was filed against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 60 others with the Siddhirganj police station in Narayanganj district on Friday.
HC dismisses ICT case against Khaleda, Tarique
The High Court on Wednesday dismissed proceedings in a 2016 case filed under Section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology (Amendment) Act, 2013, against Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia, her son and party acting chairman Tarique Rahman, and one other.