Courts & law

Nine BNP activists get 3yrs jail in subversion case in 2013

Shawdesh Desk: A Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced nine leaders and activist of BNP, including Juba Dal organising secretary Ishaq Sarkar and his elder brother Yakub

BCL leader sent to jail for torching truck during blockade

Shawdesh Desk: A leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, was sent to jail on Tuesday for setting a sugar-laden truck on fire on

‘Khaleda, Haji Salim won’t be able to participate in polls’

Shawdesh desk: As per the High Court verdict, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and Awami League lawmaker Haji Salim among other convicted persons will not be able to participate in the

Niko graft: Court summons 2 foreign witnesses

Shawdesh Desk: A court in Dhaka on Thursday summoned two foreigners to testify against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and seven others in the Niko graft case. The foreign officials are

SC again asks pro-BNP lawyers not to hold rally in courts

Shawdesh desk; The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, citing a suo moto once again on Thursday, asked the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party- backed lawyers not to hold rallies

BNP’s Dulu, Tanti Dal leader Azad among others picked up

Shawdesh desk; BNP organising secretary Ruhul Quddus Talukdar Dulu was picked up by police on Tuesday night from his Gulshan residence in the capital, claimed the party leaders. Meanwhile, Jatiyatabadi Tanti

Key info missing in report on Jasmine’s death in RAB custody: HC

Shawdesh Desk: The High Court today expressed dissatisfaction over the probe report submitted by the high-level investigation committee on the death of Union land office employee Sultana Jasmine in RAB

HC jails ex-Cumilla chief judicial magistrate for contempt of court

Shawdesh Desk: The High Court on Thursday sentenced Md Sohel Rana, a former chief judicial magistrate in Cumilla, to suffer in jail for 30 days for committing contempt of court.