Jailed rapist gets bail, ordered to recognise child, pay for upbringing
The High Court on Wednesday granted interim bail to a jailed rapist and asked him to recognise his child and pay her maintenance and education cost...
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HC seeks report on foreign workers, money taken out of Bangladesh
The High Court on Tuesday asked the Bangladesh Bank and other government authorities to submit reports on the number of foreign nationals working in Bangladesh and as to how they send their money to their respective countries...
HC asks jailers to respond to demand for post-mortem reports
The High Court on Tuesday asked the jail authorities to respond in 30 days to a lawyer鈥檚 letter seeking post-mortem reports of 13 leaders of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, who died in jail custody before January 7 parliamentary elections and in the aftermath of it...
HC asks IGP, RMP to report action against extortion for Mujib murals
The High Court on Tuesday asked the inspector general of police and the Rajshahi Metropolitan Police commissioner to report to the court in seven days what action had been taken against those who demanded extortion from the contractor making murals of country鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and four national leaders at Boalia in Rajshahi...
HC stays process of recruiting primary teachers in Dhaka, Ctg
The High Court on Tuesday stayed the process of recruiting assistant teachers to government primary schools in 21 districts of Dhaka and Chattogram divisions over an allegation that a total of 46,199 candidates were selected in the recruitment test with leaked question papers...
HC allows Bhawal Resort to operate until July 7聽
The High Court on Monday allowed until July 7 to operate business activities of privately-run Bhawal Resort Limited in Gazipur, on the outskirt of the capital, after staying the department of environment鈥檚 embargo on the resort鈥檚 operation for damaging environment....
Evict billboards of illegal housing projects near Purbachal: HC
The High Court on Sunday directed the deputy commissioners of Narayanganj and Gazipur, and the superintendents of police of the two districts to demolish in two months billboards of illegal housing projects near Rajuk-run Purbachal City at Rupganj, on the outskirts of the capital...
HC bans Silicon City鈥檚 activities in Savar
The High Court, on Sunday, directed Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha, the department of environment and deputy commissioner of Dhaka to stop all activities of Silicon City, an unauthorised private housing project at Savar, on the outskirt of Dhaka...
SC expects HC judges to sign written orders serially
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in a recent verdict has said that it expects High Court Division judges, barring exceptions, will put their signatures on bail orders and...
SC upholds HC order regarding candidacy of Shahadat in Companiganj polls
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the High Court order for accepting the nomination paper of Shahadat Hossain, younger brother of Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader, in the upcoming Companiganj Upazila Parishad election...
Slow-motion execution of Assange
THE decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian Assange the right to appeal the order to extradite him to the United States may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory. It does not mean Julian will elude extradition. It does not mean the court has ruled, as it should, that...
Admission of 169 overage children to Viqarunnisa school illegal: HC
The High Court on Tuesday in a verdict declared admission of 169 overage children to Class I of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College in Dhaka this academic year illegal...
HC approves appointment of new chairman of Destiny-2000
The High Court on Tuesday approved the appointment of Barrister Prashant Bhushan, a Supreme Court lawyer, as the new chairman of the board of directors of Destiny-2000.....
HC orders collection of identity docs of accused to prevent proxy
The High Court in a verdict on Monday asked the police, lower court judges and jailers to collect and verify identity documents鈥攏ational identification cards, or...
HC orders removal of fake blood sugar test strips
The High Court on Monday asked the government authorities to explain in four weeks why their inaction to prevent the manufacture and marketing of fake blood sugar test strips would not be declared illegal...
HC bars Dipjol from performing duty as BFAA general secretary
The High Court has barred film actor Monowar Hossain Dipjol from performing his duties as general secretary of the Bangladesh Film Artistes Association for six months...
HC orders status quo on tree felling
The High Court on Sunday asked the government authorities to maintain status-quo to prevent felling of roadsides trees on the proposed Jashore-Narail road to...
HC starts hearing Tk 600cr tax evasion case of Prof Yunus
The High Court on Thursday started fresh hearing on two writ petitions filed by Grameen Kalyan, a nonprofit social business company founded by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, challenging the National Board of Revenue鈥檚 claim of Tk聽600 crore income tax from the company for the years 2013 to 2017...
Div commissioner asked to explain eviction failure
The High Court on Wednesday asked Rangpur divisional commissioner Md Zakir Hossain to explain his failure to evict 812 illegally made brickfields as the court directed him to do so...
Govt appeal against HC solitary confinement verdict irrational
THE government鈥檚 filing an appeal with the Appellate Division challenging the High Court verdict that has asked prisons authorities not to keep in solitary confinement the inmates meted out death sentences before all judicial and administrative processes are...
SC stays HC verdict against isolation of death sentence convicts
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed a High Court verdict that asked the jail authorities not to put death sentence inmates any more in solitary confinement before the end of all legal processes...
Alal speaks against entire judiciary: HC
The High Court said on Tuesday that main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party joint secretary general Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal made contemptuous remarks against the entire judiciary...
Isolated cell only after all processes: HC聽
The High Court ruled on Monday that no death sentence prisoner could be put in isolated cells of prisons before the completion of the judicial and...
HC asks fugitive JL leader to surrender
The High Court on Sunday asked a city Juba League leader, who still remains fugitive hiring a person to serve out his jail term, to surrender to the trial court by today...
Victims can engage lawyers in sexual assault cases: HC
The High Court has issued a circular clarifying that victims of sexual assault and other crimes against women cannot be barred from engaging personal...
Convicted JL leader admits hiring proxy
A city Juba League leader facing a seven-year jail term on Thursday told the High Court that his lawyers advised him to hire a person to go behind the bar instead of him...
Notice asks DCs, SPs to remove 3-wheelers from highways
A legal notice has been served to the district administrations to implement a High Court verdict which asked them to prohibit movement of unauthorised three-wheelers, known as Nasiman or Kariman or Bhatbhati, on highways to prevent road accident...
HC bans PP from courts for defaming magistrate
The High Court on Tuesday banned a government law officer from appearing in courts for 20 days for making contemptuous remarks on social media against a judicial officer following an altercation in courtroom...
HC questions inaction on tree felling
The High Court on Monday asked the government authorities to explain in four weeks why a direction should not be given on them to frame environmental friendly policy to stop tree felling and promote tree planting...
HC stays Jhenaidah 1 by-election
The High Court on Monday stayed all the proceedings of the Jhenaidah 1 constituency (Sailkupa) by-election scheduled to be held on June 5...