Courts & law

Two cops sentenced to death, three get life-term imprisonment, 25 get different jail terms

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Thursday sentenced sub-inspector Amir Hossain and constable Sujan Chandra Roy to death in a crimes against humanity case over the killing of Begum Rokeya University

Legal notice seeks travel ban on Dr Yunus, ex-advisers

A lawyer has issued a formal legal notice to senior government officials, calling for an immediate travel ban on Dr. Muhammad Yunus and his advisory team pending a full-scale investigation

Ex-Lt Gen Masud put on 3-day fresh remand

A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Saturday placed former Feni-3 lawmaker and retired lieutenant general Masud Uddin Chowdhury on a three-day fresh remand in a case filed with Paltan

Judge Rezaul Hasan resigns

Justice Md Rezaul Hasan of the Bangladesh Supreme Court’s High Court Division has resigned following allegations of corruption. He submitted his resignation to the Supreme Court on Monday (March 30),

HC returns Amin Uddin’s anticipatory bail plea amid protest by pro-BNP lawyers

The High Court on Tuesday returned the anticipatory bail petition filed by former attorney general AM Amin Uddin in three cases, amid protests by pro-Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawyers on the

ICT prosecution pleads to show ex-army officers Mamun, Masud arrested

The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunal on Sunday pleaded to show former director general of the DGFI Lieutenant General (retired) Sheikh Mamun Khaled and former Feni-3 lawmaker Lieutenant General

Ahsan Habib Palash takes charge as RAB DG

Md Ahsan Habib Palash has assumed office as the 12th Director General (DG) of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), holding the rank of Additional Inspector General of Police. He officially took

Ex-DGFI chief Sheikh Mamun Khaled detained

A team of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police detained former Director General of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), Lieutenant General (retd) Sheikh Mamun Khaled, early