New investigating officer visits scene

A Dhaka court yesterday allowed Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to interrogate Tanvir Rahman, an accused in the case filed over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi in 2012.

The victim was abducted from Kulaura Railway Station and raped

A five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed began the hearing with Barrister Imran A Siddiq placing arguments on behalf of Mobarak Hossain

Magistrate records her statement and directs CID to investigate case

The incident sparked grief and outrage in Shahbazpur village with calls for swift justice

Suspension followed a probe after a complaint was filed against them

The travel ban was issued over misappropriating Tk 496 crore from IFIC Bank

A total of 14 people have been arrested over the attack so far

The 139-page judgment was released after it was signed by the justices concerned

The tribunal transferred four cases related to crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War to ICT-2

The deceased, Ismail Hossain, lived in Ityadi Goli of Bibirbagicha

An expelled joint convener of the Students Against Discrimination (SAD) Habiganj unit was arrested on Sunday night in connection with a case filed over assaulting people involved in SAD.

Parents detained

They said any attempt to decentralise the High Court Division would weaken the judiciary

The arrestee is Mirza Alison Azam, 45, a resident of Momin Khan Hat area under Char Madhabdia union of Sadar upazila

The body of a nine-year-old girl was found on the second floor of a mosque in Brahmanbaria’s Sarail upazila on Sunday morning.

Police yesterday said they were trying to identify and arrest the killers of a local Jubo Dal leader who was shot dead in broad daylight a day earlier in Kadalpur Union of Chattogram’s Raozan upazila.

The state-appointed defence counsel for ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday pleaded to the International Crimes Tribunal-1 to discharge his clients, saying that they are innocent and the charges brought against them are politically motivated.

The incident took place yesterday