Dhaka – A Dhaka court on Monday granted bail to Krishak Sramik Janata League president Bangabir Kader Siddiqui, Bir Uttam, on personal security in a case filed against him for calling Home Minister MK Alamgir a war criminal. Metropolitan Magistrate…
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Sayadee’s counsels to prefer appeal
Lawyers of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee say they will appeal against his death sentence.
Police file cases against Kishoreganj Islamists
Police have filed two cases following Monday’s violent clashes with the activists of 12 Islamist parties who alleged that the bloggers associated with the Shahbag movement are ‘defaming Islam’.
Govt to amend ICT Act, 1973
In the awake of the ongoing demand from common people and legal experts, the government has taken decision to amend section 21 (2) of International Crime Tribunal (ICT) Act-1973. The amendment will incorporate a provision for the government to file…
HC summons ex-registrar in ‘contempt’ case
A former district judge has been asked by the High Court to appear before it on Feb 10 to explain his actions following the publication of a newspaper article which the court took cognisance of as being “defamatory”. The bench…
Jail killing case: Appeal hearing adjourned till Wednesday
The Supreme Court adjourned the hearing on an appeal filed against a High Court verdict that acquitted six former army personnel in the jail killing case till Wednesday. A six-member bench of the Appellate Division led-by Chief Justice Md. Muzammel…
Contempt of court: ICT pardons but warns Tajul Islam
International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Tuesday made cautious Tajul Islam, one of the lawyers of detained Jamaat leaders.
ICT snubs six pleas of Sayedee
The first war crimes tribunal on Monday rejected six applications of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee saying that they had no merit.
SQ Chy’s counsel hauled in ICT
The first war crimes tribunal on Monday asked a defence counsel of BNP MP Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to explain why the court should not take action against him for debasing the court’s dignity. The order came in response to an…
ICT whips against reporting sub-judice matter
Court Correspondent The International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) on Sunday asked all mass media to refrain from reporting sub-judice matter.
Fake woman judge calls CMM court, two held
Court Correspondent DHAKA – A woman on Wednesday claiming herself as a judge of the Supreme Court asked a Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court Magistrate of Dhaka to release an accused. The CMM Court managed to know of the conspiracy…
I wasn’t in Padma Bridge graft: Mosharraf
DHAKA: Former Bridges Division Secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan threatened to nip off the case filed against him.
Padma Bridge Graft: Mosharraf-Ferdous sent to jail after remand
Former Bridges Division Secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan and Bridges Division Engineer Kazi Ferdous were sent to jail after a seven-day remand. Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) produced them before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court on Thursday afternoon. Magistrate of the court SA Salam…
ICT asks Ziauddin to explain role
Jan 3: The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Thursday asked Ahmed Ziauddin, an international law expert living in Belgium, to explain his role over the alleged Skype conversation with former ICT-1 chairman Justice Mohammad Nizamul Huq. In a suo moto rule,…
ICT reject Jamaat leader retrial petitions
Jan 3: The first war crimes tribunal on Thursday rejected retrial applications of three Jamaat-e-Islami leaders saying that it would not rely on hacked documents. Jamaat guru and former chief Ghulam Azam, current chief Motiur Rahman Nizami and executive council…
Mirza Fakhrul granted ad-interim bail
DHAKA: The High Court on Wednesday granted ad-interim bail to BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for six months in two cases of vandalism and torching vehicles during the road blockade on December 9.
Kamaruzzaman seeks retrial
DHAKA: Jamaat leader Mohammad Kamaruzzaman detained for his alleged involvement in war crimes in liberation war in 1971 on Wednesday filed a petition seeking retrial of his case.
Plea to transfer Biswajit killing case to ICT
A petition has been filed to transfer the case of Biswajit Das killing in International Crimes Tribunal (ICT).
ACC sues 5 companies over Sonali Bank scam
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sued five organisations for misappropriating Tk 3.5 billion from the largest state-owned commercial bank, Sonali Bank Ltd. The ACC has filed 26 cases with the Ramna Police Station on Tuesday, its spokesperson Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya…
Don’t report Skype chat, ICT asks media
bdnews24.com The International Crimes Tribunal-II on Thursday barred the media from publishing or broadcasting anything related to reported conversation between former Chairman of the first tribunal and a Brussels-based legal expert. The order came at the first sitting of the…
HC show cause Amar Desh
bdnews24.com A High Court bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday sought explanations why orders will not be issued to detain and try those behind the publication of an alleged conversation between a former ICT judge and an expatriate legal…
Police show 4 arrested over Biswajit’s murder
Police on Thursday informed a Dhaka court that they had arrested four suspects allegedly involved in the murder of Biswajit Das. But Home Minister M K Alamgir insisted that 11 arrests have been made in this connection so far. The…
Justice Nizam resigns as ICT chair
The War Crimes Tribunal-1 Chairman Justice Mohammed Nizamul Huq resigned on Tuesday in the wake of a controversy over his reported Skype conversation with an expatriate war crimes expert.
ICT ‘has some explaining to do’
London: ON 6th DECEMBER 2012 the presiding judge of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal, Mohammed Nizamul Huq, passed an order requiring two members of The Economist to appear before the court, demanding that they explain how we have come by e-mails…
Death threat on 26 magistrates!
Agency Some unidentified miscreants on Saturday afternoon issued death threats to 26 judges of the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistracy by cutting their veins.