Dhaka: Bangladesh’s High Court on Wednesday ordered the government to provide adequate protection to Hindus after widespread attacks on the minority community during and after the January 5 general election. The court also sought a report from authorities about the…
The High Court has stayed Bangladesh Bar Council Vice Chairman and BNP leader Khandker Mahbub Hossain seven-day remand in a bomb attack case. The bench of Justice Enayetur Rahim and Justice Mohammad Ullah issued the order on Thursday. It also…
Dhaka – Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal president Abdul Kader Bhuiyan Juwel has been placed on a fresh eight-day remand in four cases while its general secretary Habibur Rashid Habib on a 10-day one in five cases. The courts of four metropolitan…
A Dhaka court on Thursday sent BNP Vice-Chairman Major (retired) M Hafizuddin Ahmed to jail and fixed January 9 to hear remand prayers in two other cases.
A Dhaka court on Tuesday dismissed a defamation case against Opposition Leader Begum Khaleda Zia for her disputed remarks and allegedly threatening police personnel.
Dinajpur – A case has been filed against some 400 opposition leaders and activists in connection with Saturday’s violence in Kaharole upazila. Shafiquzzaman, sub-inspector of Kaharole Police Station, filed the case against 48 identified and 350 unidentified opposition men under…
A Dhaka court on Sunday placed Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) Acting President Bazlul Karim Chowdhury Abed on a five-day remand in a case filed in connection with vandalism and arson attack of a vehicle at Malibagh Chowdhutypara on November 11.
A Jatiya Party leader has filed a writ petition in the High court challenging validity of announcing uncontested candidates as winner in the national polls. Petitioner Khandaker Abdus Salam identified himself as a freedom fighter, vice chairman of the Jatiya…
BNP Standing Committee member retired Brigadier General ASM Hannan Shah secured bail in a case, while Swechhasebak Dal General Secretary Sarafat Ali Sapu and its Organising Secretary Shafiul Bari Babu obtained bail in another case on Tuesday.
Dhaka – Designated prosecutor Rana Dasgupta on Tuesday pleaded before the International Crimes Tribunal-2 for indicting accused Syed Mohammad Qaiser, a former junior minister during Gen (retd) HM Ershad’s rule, on charges of crimes against humanity including genocide, during the…
The Election Commission on Wednesday held hearing on 59 cases filed challenging the decision of nomination cancellation by returning officers across the country. “We’ve heard 59 aspirants today. Around 50 percent of the nomination papers we’ve accepted disposing of the…
The warrant issued for executing Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Molla’s death sentence is illegal, his lawyer has said. Molla’s lawyer Khandker Mahbub Hossain, who is also Vice Chairman of the Bar Council BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Adviser, said this at a…
A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred the hearing on charge framing against BNP Chief Begum Khaleda Zia and others in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases.
A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed to jail, rejecting his bail petition and the remand prayer against him.
Bangladesh’s Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework Agreement (TICFA) with the USA, signed recently, has been challenged in the High Court. Barrister Moksedul Islam filed a writ petition on Wednesday, questioning its legality.
Dhaka – The lawyers both loyal to the ruling Awami League and opposition BNP-Jamaat held separate protest meetings and brought out processions on the Supreme Court premises chanting slogans against each other over the ongoing countrywide blockade that virtually stalled…
Four people have been sentenced to death for killing a computer engineer in capital Dhaka’s Mohammadpur neighbourhood in 2011.
Dhaka – A Dhaka court on Sunday placed two journalists of a private television channel on a four-day remand in a case filed with Kamrangirchar Police Station for inciting blockaders to explode crude bombs.
A Dhaka court on Sunday refused bail to Barrister AKM Fakhrul Islam, a lawyer of convicted war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury MP in a case filed for leaking out the draft verdict of International Crimes Tribunal-1in the case against the…
A Dhaka court Thursday deferred hearing for the third time on framing charges against human rights activists Adilur Rahman Khan and ASM Nasiruddin
A court of Dhaka on Tuesday placed BNP Standing Committee member retired Brig Gen ASM Hannan Shah on a two-day remand in a case filed with Bhatara Police Station of the city in connection with vehicle torching.
Officials at the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) have got demoralised after the announcement of the Anti Corruption Commission (Amendment) Act 2013, curbing its much-needed power to stamp out all-pervasive corruption from society.
A Dhaka court on Sunday issued show cause against Investigation Officer (IO) of two cases filed in connection with the collapse of Savar’s Rana Plaza building.
A legal notice was served on Saturday to the authorities concerned seeking steps within 24 hours for scrapping the new provision incorporated in the Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2013 making it mandatory to take prior government permission to file corruption cases…
Plainclothes police arrested Barrister Fakhrul Islam, a lawyer of war crimes convict Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, from the city’s Segunbagicha are on Wednesday.
Sticking to his guns, senior advocate Khandker Mahbub Hossain, also BNP chairperson’s adviser, on Wednesday said he had honestly made the statement over the ongoing war crimes trial and still he believes in it. Replying to the pre-contempt of court…
A Dhaka court on Tuesday fixed Nov 27 for hearing in the sensational Biswajit murder case.
A Dhaka court on Monday awarded death sentence to one person and life-term imprisonments to 12 others in a case filed for killing an Awami League leader of Kishorganj in 2005.
Ignoring the prosecution objection, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday allowed the defence review plea for submitting the stalled oral arguments over the war crimes case faced by accused 1971 ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, Motiur Rahman Nizami.
Dhaka – The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 today adjourned the hearing of the trial of incumbent Jamaat chief Matiur Rahman Nizami till tomorrow, giving a last chance to his counsels to appear before the tribunal and submit their part of…