Police yesterday recovered the body of a Buddhist monk from a temple near Khagrachhari’s Gukrachhari Paimong Member Para village.

Major (retired) Sinha Md Rashed Khan’s murder was premeditated, a Cox’s Bazar court said yesterday as it handed down death sentence to suspended police officials Pradeep Kumar Das and Liaqat Ali for the killing.

Yesterday’s landmark verdict that sentenced two cops to death and six for life also offered a rare glimpse into how a “crossfire” is cooked up.

Police today said they were trying to get in touch with former state minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Murad Hassan, as part of their ongoing investigation regarding the general diary his wife filed against him recently, alleging torture and abuse.

The High Court today issued a rule over compensation of Tk 50 lakh to Gonoshasthaya Kendra programme officer Awlad Hossain who has been suffering in jail for 68 days under fake arrest warrants.

A 28-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by a cook in Chattogram city’s Lalkhan Bazar area this afternoon.

Suspended police inspector Liakat Ali and former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das had murdered retired Army Major Sinha Md Rashed Khan in a premeditated manner, observed a Cox’s Bazar court while delivering the verdict in the sensational case today.

A Buddhist monk was found dead in Ghukrachhari Dharmasukh Bouddha Bihar of Khagrachhari Sadar upazila this morning.

A Pabna court today sent to jail three people, including Bharara union parishad chairman, in connection with the murder of an independent chairman candidate Yasin Alam.

Sharmin Shahriar Ferdous, elder sister of Major (retd) Sinha Rashed Khan said they would be satisfied only after the execution of the verdict.

Four robbers with guns broke into the house of a lawyer in Collegepara area of Munshiganj's Sadar upazila and committed robbery early today.

Detectives arrested eight persons who allegedly tortured and robbed Shafiqul Islam, a resident physician at a Tangail hospital, and other passengers on a moving bus on January 20.

A general diary was filed by Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) Deputy Assistant Director, Sharif Uddin, as he received death threats yesterday.

Prosecution has claimed that cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore is now abroad and has been posting anti-government remarks on Facebook.

Suspended police inspector Liakat Ali and former OC of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das were sentenced to death for killing Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.

Police have tightened security across the Cox's Bazar district, centring Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan murder case verdict today. Several checkposts have been placed in the beach town to stop any untoward situation from developing.

A youth reportedly raped a ninth grader girl of Brichapila village of Chapila union under Gurudaspur upazila in Natore in the early hours of yesterday.

Abdul Hoque was among the several hundred drug traders from Brahmanbaria who had surrendered to police during an anti-narcotics crackdown in 2017.

A Cox’s Bazar court is set to deliver the verdict today in the sensational Maj Sinha murder case.  

Two men were killed and at least seven others were injured yesterday as local Awami League groups clashed in Raipura upazila of Narsingdi over Union Parishad polls.