A Dhaka court yesterday formed charges against former state minister for housing and public works Abdul Mannan Khan and his wife Syeda Hasina Sultana in two graft cases.

Local people formed human chain at Rajai village in Sunamganj’s Tahirpur upazila, demanding exemplary punishment for culprits involved in raping a Hajon woman.

A Dhaka court today framed charges against former state minister for housing and public works Abdul Mannan Khan and his wife Syeda Hasina Sultana in two graft cases.

The High Court today questioned the legality of the controversial provision of a government service law which has made it mandatory for police to take permission from higher authorities before arresting any civil servant on charges related to their job.

A 24-year-old was arrested last night in a case filed over the rape and murder of a 10th grader, while trying to flee to India, at the Boichona border area of Satkhira Sadar upazila.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has pressed charges against Model Mariam Akhter Mou in a case filed with Mohammadpur Police Station under the Narcotics Control Act.

Rapid Action Battalion last night rescued an eighth grader from Mymensingh who was kidnapped from Dhaka by members of a group she met on TikTok.

The High Court today expressed annoyance and disappointment at the government’s failure to form the Land Survey Appellate Tribunal in the last 17 years after formulation of the law to this effect and even after the court had directed for doing so.

A Cumilla court today asked to produce two Hefajat-e Islam leaders, including its former Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque, before it on December 23 in a case filed against them for attending a mahfil in Chandina upazila without the administration's permission.

The High Court today granted a six-week anticipatory bail -- on condition -- to Ibrahim Ahmed Ripon, an accused in the case filed over the rape and murder of a college student in a flat at Dhaka’s Gulshan in April this year.

One year after the rape incident at Sylhet’s Murari Chand College (MC College), trial of two cases filed over rape and mugging are yet to begin in court, due to several legal obligations and the ongoing pandemic.

An Assistant Sub-inspector (ASI) of Rangpur’s Haragach Police Station died yesterday after being stabbed by a drug dealer during a raid.

On May 3, 2015, a Dhaka-bound Eagle Paribahan bus carried a steel trunk inside its luggage box from Chattogram. As the trunk was not claimed by anyone, police seized it and found the body of a woman.

A high school head teacher in Bandarban was sent to jail yesterday for raping a student two years ago, while a man was accused in a case on charge of raping a fifth-grader in Joypurhat.

Human Rights Forum Bangladesh has expressed deep concern over a case against Shaheen Anam, executive director of Manusher Jonno Foundation, and Angela Gomez, executive director of Banchte Shekha.

A case has been filed over the death of Scholastica School’s Career Guidance Counselor Evana Laila Choudhury on September 17.

Headmaster of a local high school in Ruma upazila of Bandarban has been arrested in a case filed for allegedly raping a student.

Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have arrested a serial rapist during a raid in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area this morning.

An Assistant Sub-inspector (ASI) of Rangpur’s Haragach Police Station, who was stabbed by a drug dealer during a raid yesterday, has died while undergoing treatment at Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) today.

Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir will be interrogated if investigators deem it necessary for the probe into a case filed against him over the rape and killing of a college student in Gulshan this April.