Ashutosh Sarkar

The majority of the five Supreme Court judges, who reviewed the death sentence on war crimes convict Delwar Hossain Sayedee, had commuted his sentence to life imprisonment in September last year because a life sentence appeared to them to be "proportionate to the gravity of the crime" he committed, according to the full verdict released yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday observed that the freedom of the press is not “absolute, unlimited and unfettered at all times and in all circumstances as would lead to disorder and anarchy”.

The government may take an initiative to promote some High Court judges to the Appellate Division in a month, as the apex court has been going through a shortage of judges for more than two years.

The Supreme Court is likely to start next month hearing the appeal of war crimes convict Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali.

The law ministry has moved to take disciplinary action against the Chandpur district and sessions judge after a judicial probe found the

Even though forty years have passed since the killing of four national leaders at Dhaka Central Jail, none of the convicted killers has been brought to book.

The Appellate Division has been facing a shortage of judges as five out of 11 have retired since 2013 but no new appointment has yet

The way Gaibandha MP Manzurul Islam Liton allegedly shot a minor boy early this month can only be seen in movies and there is no scope to grant him bail, the High Court said yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday released its full verdicts that upheld the death penalty of Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for 1971 war crimes, leaving them with the option of seeking review of the verdicts.

The High Court is likely to start hearing arguments on the BDR carnage case on November 1 since the court has finished hearing the

Over the past 20 months, the Supreme Court has overturned the High Court's acquittal of 19 people, mostly politicians and their family

The High Court yesterday ordered confiscation of the 18-storey tower built by Concord Group on the land of Sir Salimullah Muslim Orphanage in the capital's Azimpur area.

The High Court yesterday scrapped a law that had legitimised all actions under a controversial criminal hunt called Operation Clean Heart in 2003.

The government has taken steps to recruit 478 new judges for lower courts in phases to address the massive backlog of pending cases.

A whopping 1,051 cases are added every day to the existing backlog, already in the millions, due to a shortage of judges in the

The High Court is likely to deliver the final decision on the legality of empowering the executive magistrates to perform judicial functions by September as it is about to finish hearing arguments on the 68-month-old writ petition regarding the matter.

The Supreme Court is now set to hear the appeal of war crimes convict Motiur Rahman Nizami after adjudicating the case against another war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.

He led a band of ruthless killers and teamed up with the Pakistan occupation army to massacre over a hundred unarmed civilians and loot and destroy village after village in Chittagong during the 1971 Liberation War. The brutality of the self-proclaimed brigadier gained such notoriety that people in their thousands fled the country fearing for their lives and took shelter in India.

All eyes are on the Supreme Court that is set to deliver today its verdict on an appeal of war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury challenging his death penalty and other sentences.

With the majority of the hearings complete, the High Court is likely to fix by September a date to deliver verdict in the BDR carnage case, the biggest ever