Ashutosh Sarkar

Sultana Jasmine, 41, a land office employee in Naogaon, was picked up and detained by Rapid Action Battalion on March 22 last year. She died in Rab custody at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital two days later. Rab officers told doctors Jasmine had suffered a fall.

Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu, the former BASIC Bank chairman accused in 58 cases of embezzling Tk 2,265 crore, remains at large due to delay in issuing the arrest warrant by the court.

Twenty-six years have passed since the signing of historic CHT Peace Accord took place between Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti and the government on this day in 1997.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday dismissed an appeal filed by Jamaat-e-Islami, challenging a 2013 High Court verdict that declared illegal the party’s registration with the Election Commission.

It has been 48 years since, on this very day in 1975, four national leaders were assassinated at the Dhaka Central Jail.

Eleven years on, victims of the communal attack on the Buddhist community in Ramu of Cox’s Bazar are still waiting for justice.

Newly appointed Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan yesterday said he will work with judges, lawyers and journalists to eradicate corruption and make the judiciary more robust.

Newly appointed Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan today said he will work with judges, lawyers and journalists to eradicate corruption and make the judiciary more robust

Justice continues to elude the family members of Ishtiaque Hossain Jonny, a garment-waste trader from Mirpur, whose custodial torture and death in 2014 sparked outrage and led to  the country’s sole case filed under the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act, 2013.

The High Court in the full text of a verdict has directed the government to allow the SSC and HSC candidates to mention the names of their fathers or mothers or legal guardians while filling in student information form (SIF) for examinations.

The August 21, 2004 grenade attack victims are yet to receive justice for the horrifying tragedy that took place at an Awami League rally, in the capital’s Bangabandhu Avenue.

The government’s efforts to bring back the five fugitive killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to the country have yet to see any significant and visible progress.

Politics cannot be a tool to make money and amass properties, and if the politicians indulge in corruption, the entire society will plunge into darkness, the High Court said in the full text of a verdict.

A high-powered probe committee formed by Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation has found involvement of M/S Poton Traders, a contracting firm owned by former lawmaker Kamrul Ashraf Khan (Poton), in embezzlement of 71,801 tonnes of imported chemical fertiliser.

The case disposal rate at lower courts has increased to 22.03 percent last year and to 30 percent in the first quarter of the current year compared to the rate of disposal in 2019.

The HC is expected to finish the hearing within the next few months and deliver a judgement

The High Court has reconstituted the board of directors of the People’s Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (PLFSL), a troubled non-bank financial institution, to run it “effectively for the greater interest of depositors and stakeholders”. 

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recommended over 11 months ago that the government scraps two sections and amends eight others of the Digital Security Act but the government said it will not scrap them and is reviewing the sections.

In a landmark directive, the High Court has said the trial courts must hold separate hearings on sentencing in criminal cases.

Final justice is yet to be delivered to the family members of the then Awami League lawmaker Ahsanullah Master, who was brutally killed on this day 19 years ago, as the appeals in connection with his murder case have been pending with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court for seven years.