Courts & law

AL-backed panel sees landslide victory in Dhaka Bar polls

Shawdesh desk: Pro-liberation White Panel has clinched a landslide victory in Dhaka Bar Association polls, bagging 17 posts including President as General Secretary. White Panel candidate Mahbubur Rahman and Ferozur

5 to walk gallows, 3 get life term in Laxmipur farmer murder case

Shawdesh desk: A Laxmipur court on Wednesday awarded death sentence to five accused and life-term imprisonment to three others in farmer Ali Akber murder case of Raypur upazila in the

Arrest Falu by March 24: Court orders Cantonment police

Shawdesh Desk: Police have been asked to arrest former BNP lawmaker Mosaddek Ali Falu by March 24 in a case filed for siphoning Tk 183.92 crore to Dubai. Judge KM

2 kids to stay with Japanese mother: SC

Shawdesh desk: The Appellate Division of Supreme Court on Sunday ordered that the two children of Bangladesh-born US citizen Imran Sharif and Japanese mother Nakano Erico will stay with their

Justice Jahangir Hossain made new chairman of Supreme Court Legal Aid

Shawdesh desk: Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim, a judge of the High Court Division of Supreme Court, has been appointed as the new chairman of the Supreme Court Legal Aid Committee

Trial of Nasir, Tamima in ‘illegal marriage’ case begins

Shawdesh desk: A Dhaka court on Wednesday framed charges against national team cricketer Nasir Hossain and his wife Tamima in a case filed over their ‘illegal marriage’. Dhaka Additional Chief

Major Sinha murder case: Death reference reaches HC

Shawdesh desk: The death references of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan murder case have reached the High Court for examining the lower court verdict. The death reference reached the

Nipun files appeal seeking stay on HC order over Zayed Khan’s candidacy

Shawdesh desk: Film actress Nipun on Tuesday filed a petition with the Supreme Court challenging the High Court order that halted the appellate board’s decision declaring actress Nipun as the