The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Monday placed three people, including BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s adviser Shamsuzzaman Dudu, on a five-day remand each in a case filed under the Special Powers Act. Magistrate Mohammad Aminul Islam…
Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha was on Monday appointed Chief Justice of Bangladesh. President Abdul Hamid made the appointment in accordance with the article 95 (1) of the Constitution, an official release said. The Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry issued…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Sunday placed ETV Chairman Abdus Salam on a five-day remand in a sedition case filed for airing an alleged false, fabricated and instigating speech of BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman on…
Police have brought charges of sedition against BNP leader Tarique Rahman and Ekushey Television Chairman Abdus Salam. A case was filed on Thursday over live telecast of a speech the BNP’s senior vice-chairman delivered in a programme at London three…
Law Minister Anisul Huq today strongly condemned the bomb and arson attack on the residence and village home of the High Court Justices who passed an interim order not to broadcast or publish statement of fugitive accused BNP vice-chairman Tarique…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday (Wednesday) allowed police to quiz BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at the jail gate within 10 working days. Magistrate Md Tareq Mainul Islam Bhuiyan of the court passed…
The High Court on Wednesday issued a rule as to why directive should not be issued not to give media coverage to statements of BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, living in London since September, 2008. An HC division bench comprising…
Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury, who was sent to jail on December 30 in the former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria murder case, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) early Thursday. Sources said Ariful Haque,…
The Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 of Dhaka on Tuesday sentenced six people to death for killing Rajarbagh police telecom department operator Golam Shamsul Haider eight years ago. Judge Shahed Nuruddin of the tribunal sentenced two other convicts to suffer imprisonment for…
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 Tuesday awarded death penalty to assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami ATM Azharul Islam on the charge of crimes against humanity in Rangpur during the War of Liberation of 1971. The three-member tribunal headed by its…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…