Bangladesh

A case has been filed against 21 people, including Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and her daughter Saima Wazed Putul, over the shooting and killing of a fruit vendor at Jatrabari during the recent student movement. Md Sultan Sheikh, father of the deceased Md Farid Sheikh, filed the case with Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Md ...

Former social welfare minister Dipu Moni and former deputy minister for youth and sports Arif Khan Joy have been placed on a four-day and a five-day remand respectively in a case filed over the killing of grocer Abu Sayeed at Mohammadpur in the capital. Producing them before the court on Tuesday (August 20), Mohammadpur Police Station’s inspector Toffazal Hossain pleaded ...

Another murder case has been filed against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 24 others over the death of garment worker Md Sohel Rana in the city’s Adabor area on August 5. Mohammad Ibrahim, brother of Sohel Rana, submitted a petition with the Court of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sultan Sohag Uddin to file the case on Tuesday ...

BNP Chairperson’s adviser Lion Mohammad Aslam Chowdhury was freed from Chattogram Central Jail on Tuesday (August 20) after eight years. Deputy jailer Md Ibrahim said Aslam Chowdhury came out of prison at about 10am. Bail paper of Aslam Chowdhury of the last case reached the jail and after scrutinising those, he was permitted to walk out, he added. Meanwhile, hearing ...

The High Court has fixed Thursday (August 22) for holding hearing on a writ seeking the ban on Awami League and cancellation of its registration as a political party for mass killing. An HC bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Md Mahbubul Ul Islam set the date on Tuesday. Writ petitioner Arifur Rahman Bhuiyan, executive director of rights group ...

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) have arrested former deputy minister for Youth and Sports Arif Khan Joy. According to the DMP’s statement, Arif Khan Joy was arrested on Monday night from the capital’s Dhanmondi area. He was shown arrested in a murder case filed with  Mohammadpur Police Station. He will be produced in the court on Tuesday (August 29) seeking remand. ...

Broadcasting of private television channel ‘Somoy TV’ has been suspended for seven days. An HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Shashanka Shekhar Sarkar passed the order on Monday following a writ petition filed by the channel’s director Shampa Rahman. Senior lawyer Mojibul Haque Bhuiyan and Ahsanul Karim were present for the writ petitioner, while deputy attorney general Foyej ...

The High Court (HC) on Monday issued a rule asking why the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, which scrapped the caretaker government system, should not be declared illegal. A High Court bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Shashanka Shekhar Roy issued the rule following a writ petition. The court also asked the government to explain in eight weeks why ...

A Supreme Court lawyer filed a case against former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque with Shahbagh Police Station on Monday (August 19). The lawyer filed the case against the chief justice under sections 219 and 466 on charges of amending the caretaker government provision in the constitution through fraud, breach of trust and forgery. Earlier on Sunday, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate ...

Gazi Md. Mozammel Haque, who began his career in 1997 after being appointed as an Assistant Commissioner of Police through the 17th BCS, is currently serving as an Additional DIG at the Police Headquarters. He is also the director of a housing project. The project, promoted under the name ‘Ananda Police Family Multipurpose Cooperative Society,’ currently holds assets worth approximately ...