A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Sunday seeking its order to form a high-level committee to investigate the failure of government organisations in rescuing minor boy Jihad alive from inside the pipe of a water pump…
Category: Courts law
14 persons sued for felling trees illegally in Barguna
Fourteen persons, including executive engineer of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) of Barguna district, have been sued for illegally felling 300 valuable trees in the name of repairing flood protection embankment in Amtali Upazila.
7 alleged JMB activists sent to jail
A court in Mymensingh on Tuesday sent seven suspected activists of the banned Islamic outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to jail in two explosion cases. Judge of the Mymensingh Cognisance Court-2 Mehnaz Siddiqui passed the order after police produced them…
Latif Siddique bail prayer rejected
A Dhaka court Saturday rejected bail plea of Abdul Latif Siddique in a case filed in connection with his remarks against Hajj and Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). Metropolitan Magistrate M Rezaul Karim of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka…
Another Rab member remanded in N’ganj 7-murder case
A court in Narayanganj on Sunday placed another member of Rapid Action Battalion-11 – Asaduzzaman Nur – on a seven-day remand in a case filed in connection with the Narayanganj seven murders. Senior Judicial Magistrate KM Mahiuddin passed the order…
Mobile court jails 7 for production, sale of fake cosmetics
A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Sunday sentenced seven people upto two years simple jail on charge of manufacturing and marketing fake cosmetics in the city’s Chawkbazar area. Members of Rab-10 in a drive at Khan Market…
Court summons Fakhrul for calling AL party of killers
A Dhaka court on Thursday summoned BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a case filed for calling Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ‘a killer’ and her party Awami League ‘a partyof killers’. Magistrate Adit Kumar Dey of the…
Cricketer Rubel gets bail for 4 weeks in actress Happy case
The High Court on Monday allowed an anticipatory bail for four weeks to national cricketer Rubel Hossain in a rape case. An HC bench comprising Justice Syed AB Mahmudul Haque and Justice M Akram Hossain Chowdhury passed the order following…
Golam Rasul, Judge in Bangabandhu murder case, no more
Kazi Golam Rasul, trial judge in the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman murder case, died of old-age complications in Dhaka on Thursday morning. He was 73. He breathed his last at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the United Hospital in…
Charge framed against 13 BNP leaders for vandalism
A Dhaka court on Wednesday framed charges against 13 BNP leaders including Sultan Salauddin and Habibun Nabi Khan Sohel. Magistrate Md Mahbubur Rahman of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka passed the order on Wednesday afternoon.
Rab report finds 20 of its men involved in N’ganj murders
The internal probe by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has blamed three of its former officers for the murder of seven people in Narayanganj, including City Corporation Councillor Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar. Rab unit submitted its…
Warrant issued against BNP sr vice chairman Tarique
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka court on Wednesday issued arrest warrant for Senior BNP Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman in a defamation case for saying Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ‘Pakbandhu’, friend of Pakistan. Magistrate Ataul Haque of the…
Trial of enforced disappearances perpetrators if in power: BNP
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul yesterday said if voted to power, the BNP would hold trials of those involved in enforced disappearances on charge of crimes against humanity. “The crimes perpetuated by those in 1971 during the war of…
Latif Siddique refused bail
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Sunday rejected a bail petition of former minister Abdul Latif Siddique in a case filed against him for hurting religious sentiments of the Muslims. Magistrate Asaduzzman Nur passed the order and…
SB inspector, wife murder deposition of witnesses adjourned
A Dhaka court on Thursday adjourned recording the depositions of the witnesses in the case filed for killing Special Branch’s Police Officer Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Rahman last year, as none turned up to testify. In the circumstances,…
Court asks for resubmission of Kibria murder chargesheet
A Habiganj court has ordered the resubmission of a supplementary charge sheet in former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria’s murder case, as the previous one got the names and addresses of several accused wrong. The court of Senior Judicial Magistrate…
One awarded death for murder
The Special Judge Court-5 of Dhaka yesterday (Wednesday) awarded death sentence to a fugitive convict while imprisoned another for life in Milton Barua murder case. Judge Rezaul Islam of the court pronounced the verdict in presence of the life term…
Alleged aide of Daud Ibrahim on remand
A court of Dhaka yesterday (Wednesday) placed Abdur Rauf Daud Merchant, an alleged aid of India’s top terrorist and mafia don Daud Ibrahim, on a three-day remand in a case filed under section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure…
Bangladesh’s war crimes tribunal punishes journlist for contempt
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 here on Tuesday sentenced British origin journalist David Bergman, working at national daily the daily New Age, to jail till court hours and fined Tk 5,000 on contempt of court charge. ICT-2 Chairman Obaidul Hasan ordered…
Charge framing against Latif Siddique Dec 7
A Dhaka court on Sunday fixed December 7 as the date for framing charge against sacked minister Abdul Latif Siddique in a case filed for his blasphemous remarks on Prophet (sm) Hajj and Tablig Jamaat. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Asaduzzaman…
Mir Quasem appeals against war crimes conviction
Mir Quasem Ali who has been convicted for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971, on Sunday filed an appeal with the Supreme Court challenging theath penalty awarded by the International Crimes Tribunal-2. Mir Quasem’s lawyers submitted the…
Khaleda must prove clean in graft cases, my cases were false: Hasina
Sheikh Hasina has dared her arch political rival Khaleda Zia to prove in court that she did not steal money from the fund for orphans. The prime minister made the suggestion at a meeting of Awami League Central Working Committee…
2 JMB members to die for killing police informer
A Dhaka court yesterday (Wednesday) sentenced two members of the banned Islamist militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to death for killing a police informer in 2006. Judge ABM Nizamul Haque of Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 of Dhaka passed the order…
Latif Siddique sent to jail after surrender
A Dhaka court here on Tuesday sent sacked minister Abdul Latif Siddique to jail in a case filed for hurting the religious sentiments of Muslims through his blasphemous remarks on Prophet (sm) Hajj and Tablig Jamaat. Metropolitan Magistrate Atiqur Rahman…
Clashes follow as policeman shooting dead black US tenager not indicted
Police have clashed with protesters in Missouri, after a grand jury refused to charge a policeman over the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. Announcing the decision, state prosecutor Robert McCulloch said the jury exhaustively examined evidence.
Zia Charitable Trust graft case order on appeal plea Nov 30
The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred the date to November 30 for passing an order on an appeal filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the High Court verdict that had upheld the charge framing order against her in Zia…
Court directs to arrest Latif Siddique
A Dhaka court Monday evening directed police to arrest the Former Posts, Telecommunications and ICT Minister Abdul Latif Siddique following an appeal filed by Advocate Abed Razda. Magistrate Atiqur Rahman of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka gave…
8 put on remand again over RU teacher murder
A court in Rajshahi on Monday placed eight people on a fresh one-day remand in connection with the murder of Rajshahi University teacher Prof AKM Shafiul Islam. Magistrate of the Rajshahi Metropolitan Magistrate Court-3 Sharmin Akhter passed the order when…
IC Tribunal asks journalists to be more responsible
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 today asked journalists, covering the court proceedings, to be more sensible and responsible. The first tribunal came up with the view while criticizing journalists, especially the ones from TV channels, for their yesterday’s mistake as…
Mobarak given death penalty for war crimes
Md Mobarak Hossain from Brahmanbaria’s Akaura, has been sentenced to death for war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War. The International Crimes Tribunal-1, headed by Justice M Enayetur Rahim, announced his verdict on Monday. Two among the five charges against…