Chaitanya Chandra Halder

Police dropped the names of Ron Haque Sikder, managing director of Sikder Group, and his brother, from the investigation report of a case filed against them abducting, torturing and opening fire on two Exim Bank officials over permission for a loan.

Hasan Mirdha Akash is losing hope of getting justice.

Morzina Begum was waiting anxiously outside the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Dhaka Tuesday morning. Her younger son, Mohammad Hasan, was arrested by Hazaribagh police Monday night for being out during the lockdown.

Even though a decade has passed, trial of a case filed over the robbery at Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) 30 years ago has not made any headway.

The forgery case filed against Aparajita International proprietor Sharmin Jahan was a matter of factual error, a police probe report has found.

An organised crime gang, in line with the instructions from Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed, played a role in spreading Covid-19 virus in the country by preparing fake test reports, a Rab probe has found.

He liked having yaba. And it was cheap too. He knew a lot of people like him were addicted to the crazy pills. He saw the potential of making a lot of money that too very quickly if he started trading the drug instead of just consuming.

Delwar Hossain, then executive engineer of Gazipur City Corporation, was killed last year over a disagreement with his colleague Mohammad Selim over the latter’s illegal activities, a police probe has found.

Investigators have brought charges against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol in another case filed under the Digital Security Act stating that his purpose was to deteriorate law and order through aggressive intimidation and posting defamatory photos and writings on Facebook.

The trial proceedings in the murder case filed in connection with the Rana Plaza collapse in Savar have made no progress in the last five years due to High Court stay orders.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday sentenced 14 militants to death and ordered that they be “publicly” executed by the firing squad for attempting to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2000.

Police recently submitted a charge sheet with the court claiming that photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol’s main purpose was to tarnish the images of ruling party leaders and activists and extort money by uploading fake information.

The trial of Sayeed Ahmed Tipu’s murder case did not make any headway in around a decade due to the prosecution’s failure to produce witnesses before court for their statements.

Writer-blogger Avijit Roy was killed to gag and discourage freedom of expression so that no one in the country can write or express themselves freely.

Investigators have charged photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol with circulating indecent, defamatory, objectionable and fake information about some ministers, lawmakers and top Jubo Mahila League leaders on Facebook.

Another 32 migrants, who have returned to the country recently, were thrown into jail yesterday after completion of their quarantine period.

Yesterday afternoon before a Dhaka court, Imtiaz Hossain Rocky, brother of Ishtiaque Hossain Jonny who was tortured and killed in police custody in 2014, was constantly on his feet.

Ten years have passed since a Dhaka court served two arrest warrants, including a conviction warrant, against Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed in a cheque bounce case, but police are yet to take any action in this regard, the prosecution alleges.

The drivers of two Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan buses involved in the killing of two college students in 2018 were well aware of the high risk of driving down the ramp of a flyover.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced Moazzem Hossain, former officer-in-charge of Sonagazi police station, to eight years’ rigorous imprisonment for filming Nusrat Jahan Rafi’s statement and circulating the clip without her consent.