A young man in Khagrachhari landed in jail yesterday in a case filed under the Digital Security Act over his Facebook comments.

A mobile court in Patuakhali seized 22 maund of jatka (young hilsa) along with a truck from Sheikh Kamal Bridge Toll plaza on Patuakhali-Kuakata highway today.

A Dhaka court today placed two top leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam on a seven-day remand each in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over the 2013 mayhem in Dhaka.

Detectives today arrested four people of a narcotics syndicate who reserved yaba tablets after smuggling those from Cox’s Bazar to Dhaka.

Detective Branch of Police have arrested 30 more people, including activists of Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh, in connection with the clashes and vandalism in Brahmanbaria between March 26 and 28, according to a press release of Special Branch of district police.

A metal furniture trader was stabbed to death for refusing to pay extortion money in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area last night.

A teenage girl was raped allegedly by a neighbouring youth in Sirajganj’s Belkuchi upazila on Thursday.

Nine people were arrested in connection with torturing a woman at a remote union under Baufal upazila of Patuakhali on Thursday.

Vice-president of Hefajat-e-Islam’s Dhaka city unit Maulana Jubair Ahmed was placed on a five-day remand today in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over the 2013 mayhem in Dhaka.

Detective Branch of police detained another leader of Hefajat-e-Islam from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area this afternoon.

Seven more supporters of Hefajat-e-Islam have been arrested in several cases filed over vandalism and arson in Brahmanbaria on March 26 and 28 centring the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to a press release of Special Branch of district police.

A Bogura court yesterday sent three men to jail in connection with the rape of a woman in the district’s Sherpur upazila.

Police arrested Vice-president of Hefajat-e-Islam’s Dhaka city unit Maulana Jubair Ahmed from his house in the capital yesterday.

Police detained Hefajat-e-Islam’s Dhaka city unit’s Vice-president Maulana Jubair Ahmed from his residence in the capital today.

Twenty-four more people were arrested in the past 24 hours in connection with the clashes and vandalism by Hefajat-e-Islam activists and supporters in Brahmanbaria last month, police said today.

Police today arrested a youth, who is said to have a mental condition, for the rape and assault of a 100-year-old woman in Jashore Sadar upazila's Chanchra union.

Members of Counter Terrorism (CT) of CMP arrested a man from Naikhongchhari of Bandarban district early today on charge of helping Rohingya refugees obtain Bangladeshi National Identity (NID) cards with help of Election Commission staff.

Police have arrested 30 more, including leaders and activists of Hefajat-e-Islam, in 24 hours till last night in connection with the mayhem in Brahmanbaria from March 26 to 28, centring the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Three Bangladeshi men have reportedly been detained by police in Malaysia recently for possessing forged passports.

A farmer was beaten to death yesterday, after he allegedly slaughtered a goat for damaging his crops in Gazipur’s Kaliganj upazila.