A Dhaka court yesterday set August 27 as the next date for recording the depositions in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases. Dhaka’s third Special Judge Abu Ahmed Jamader of passed the order after a defendant’s…
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SC to decide on contempt regarding Salauddin verdict Aug 13
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will pronounce its decision about the contempt of court charge against the daily Jnakantha editor and executive editor on Aug 13. A six-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha…
Khaleda won’t appear in trust graft case Monday for illness
BNP Chief Begum Khaleda Zia will not be able to appear to the court on Monday in Zia Orphanage and Charitable Trust graft cases due to her illness. The BNP Chairperson’s lawyer Sanaullah Mia said newsmen on Sunday, “As she…
Court allows police to do forensic test on Niloy
A Dhaka Court yesterday (Sunday) allowed police to go for forensic test of slain blogger Niladri Chattaerjee Niloy. Earlier, the police sought permission to the court to send the evidence of Niladri Chatterjee Niloy to the Forensic Department of Dhaka…
SC stays in hours HC stay on Press Club new body
Hours after the High Court slapped a six-month injunction on the activities of the new committee of the Jatiya Press Club, the Supreme Court on Thursday night stayed the order for eight weeks. Chamber judge of the Appellate Division Hasan…
JS body suggests recruitment of judges to vacant posts soon
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry has suggested the government recruit judges to vacant posts soon in order to reduce the backlog of cases piled up in courts across the country. The committee came…
Amanullah Aman sent to jail, MK Anwar gets bail
Separate courts of Dhaka on Sunday sent BNP leader Amanullah Aman to jail in 56 cases filed for arson attacks and vandalism during the BNP-led 20-party alliance’s blockade and shutdown (Hartal) programme, while senior BNP leader MK Anwar was allowed…
Hearing on acquittal of BNP leaders in cop killing case deferred
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Thursday deferred the hearing on the acquittal of 20 leaders and activists of 20-party alliance, including BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir to August 30 in a case filed…
Bnp expresses frustration at SC verdict against Salauddin
BNP has expressed its frustration, surprise and shock as the Appellate Division upheld the death sentence o party leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury on charges of crimes against humanity. “Our party considers like his lawyers that he did not get justice.…
SC upholds Salauddin Quader’s death verdict
The appellate division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday upheld the death penalty of condemned war crime convict Salauddin Quader Chowdhury. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division of the court, led by chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, delivered…
SC exempts Zafruallah from fine on contempt charge
The Supreme Court has exempted Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Dr Zafruallah Chowdhury from Tk5,000 fine in a judgment of the International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT-2) for contempt of court. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice SK Sinha,…
SQC’s wife given time for hearing on verdict leaking
The Cyber Tribunal of Dhaka on Monday once again deferred the hearing on framing charge against BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s wife, son and four others in a case filed for allegedly leaking a draft verdict of International Crimes Tribunal-1…
Fresh HC hearing of Maya graft appeal on Monday
The High Court will hear Disaster Management minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya’s appeal against his sentencing for corruption on Monday. The Awami League MP had been slapped a 13-year prison term and fined Tk 50 million during the emergency rule…
Hearing on indictment of 63 Bnp leaders deferred
A Dhaka court on Thursday deferred the hearing on charge framing against 63 leaders and activists of BNP including the party’s Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir until September 15 in a case filed for burning a vehicle and…
Husband gets life for killing wife in Sirajganj
A court on Wednesday convicted a man and sentenced him to life term imprisonment for killing his wife in 2013.The convict was identified as Shahin Ali Babu, son of Amjad Sheikh, a resident of Mahmudpur village in sadar upazila.
Khaleda in special court: ACC official cross-examined
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has reached a Dhaka court to attend hearing in two corruption cases on Zia orphanage and charitable trusts. She reached the court at Bakshibazar just after 10am on Thursday. The former prime minister is accused in…
Charge-sheet against 58 of Bnp-led 20-Party Alliance
The Police yesterday (Wednesday) submitted two charge sheets to a Dhaka court against 58 leaders and activists of 20-party alliance including MK Anwar, Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s Adviser Khandaker Mahbub Hossain…
ICT-2 defers Zafrullah chy’s contempt hearing
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT-2) on Wednesday deferred for two weeks (to August 5) the hearing on the charges of contempt of court against Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury. Advocate Abdul Baset Mazumder, lawyer of Zafrullah Chowdhury, during today’s…
Review to reject N’ganj 7-murder charge-sheet sought
A review petition has been filed against a court order that rejected the naraji (no-confidence) petition against the chargeshhet in a case filed in connection with the sensational seven murders. Selina Islam Beauty, widow of Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor…
Charge-sheet given against MP’s son Rony
The Detective Branch (DB) of Police on Tuesday at about 12.30 submitted the charge sheet against Awami League lawmaker Pinu Khan’s son Bakhtiar Alam Rony in a case filed for double murder to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of…
Two more accused confess to Rajon murder
Anowarul Haq, Magistrate-3 of Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Tuesday afternoon recorded the confessional statements of two more accused in the Rajon murder case of Sylhet. ACCused Nur Mia and Dulal Mia made confessional statements admitting their involvement in the…
Ruhul Amin accused in hiding Rajon’s body remanded
A local court has placed Ruhul Amin on a seven-day remand in the case filed in connection with the brutal killing of Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajon in Kumargaon area of the city on July 8. Judge Anwarul Haque of the…
Case filed over landslilde
Two cases have been filed in connection with early Sunday’s landslide and wall collapse in the port city that left six people, including three siblings, dead.
Restoring justice to the US justice system
Antonio Ginatta Yesterday, two days before his visit to the El Reno federal prison in Oklahoma – the first visit to a prison by a sitting United States president – President Barack Obama made a long-overdue and compelling call for…
Fakhrul back to Uttara home, Gayeswar released on bail
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, who has been undergoing treatment at a city hospital since his release on bail on Tuesday evening, returned his Uttara home on Thursday. Mirza Fakhrul reached his house around 3pm from United…
Fakhrul bailed 6 months after arrest need treatment
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was released on bail from the prision cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital yesterday, six months after his arrest. The BNP leader walked out of the BSMMU prison cell…
Khaleda replies to loan default of Dandy Dying
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday (Tuesday) submitted her written reply to the Money Loan Court-1 of Dhaka in a case filed for default of Dandy Dying Limited. Begum Khaleda Zia’s lawyer Ahmed Azam Khan submitted the written reply on her…
SC upholds HC bail to Fakhrul in 3 violence cases
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday upheld the High Court (HC) order that granted bail to BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three violence cases for six weeks. A four-member bench of the…
Private TV news editor Mukul again refused bail
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka again rejected a bail petition of Rakibul Islam Mukul, sacked news editor of private television channel GTV yesterday, in a case filed for torturing his wife. Magistrate Meher Nigar Shuchona of the…
ICT summons Zafrulah Chowdhury against for contempt
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT-2) on Sunday summoned Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury again to appear before it by July 22 to explain why the charges of contempt of court should not be brought against him. A 3-member bench…