Courts, law

Dhaka, Oct 21 (UNB) – The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday stayed for four weeks the proceedings of a case filed against BNP leader and former minister Mirza Abbas. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 21 – The High Court (HC)on Tuesday issued a rule asking the government to explain within four weeks why the section 41 (1) of the Government Service Act should not be declared contradictory to the section 26 (1, 2), 27 and 31 of the constitution and why it should not be scrapped. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 21 (UNB) – A tribunal here on Monday sentenced 12 people to death for killing a man in Kishoreganj in 2015. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 20 (UNB) – Gambia will be taking Myanmar to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to face charges of genocide against its Rohingya minority, said Gambia’s Attorney General and Minister for Justice Abubacarr Marie Tambadou. Read More »

Chapainawabganj, Oct 19 (UNB) – A mobile court here on Saturday sentenced three individuals after a drive to prevent them from marrying off under-aged children. Read More »

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Tuesday sentenced five war criminals to death for their crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 15 – The High Court will hear on Tuesday on a writ petition filed seeking Tk 10 crore compensation for the family of Buet student Abrar Fahad, who was beaten to death at his dormitory. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 13 – The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court Sunday directed the owner of Sajan Paribahan to give Tk 10 lakh in a month to the brothers of Rajib Hossain, a college student who was killed in a road accident in the city last year after his right arm got stuck between two buses and got severed. Read More »

A court here on Thursday sentenced seven people to death for killing a truck driver in 2014. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 9 (UNB) – A court here on Wednesday issued a warrant for the arrest of Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus in three cases filed over sacking three employees of Grameen Communications. Read More »

Brahmanbaria, Oct 5 (UNB)- Twenty five-year old bridegroom was sentenced to one month jail term after he was caught red handed while attempting to marry a 13-year girl here at Bhatpara village in Sadar upazila on Friday. Read More »

Feni, Sept 30 – A tribunal here on Monday fixed October 24 for delivering its verdict on the sensational Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case. Read More »

Geneva, Sep 27 2019 (IPS) – “Six years after initiating my term as Special Rapporteur, it is sobering to say that the way to freedom from slavery remains long in spite of the legal abolition of slavery worldwide,” said UN expert on contemporary forms of slavery, Urmila Bhoola. Read More »

A Paris court ruled on Wednesday that the woman who launched the French version of the #MeToo movement must pay 20,000 euros ($22,000) for defaming the man she accused of harassment. Read More »

Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful, the Supreme Court has ruled. Mr Johnson suspended – or prorogued – Parliament for five weeks earlier this month, but j udges said it was wrong to stop MPs carrying out duties in the run-up to Brexit on 31 October. Read More »

Dhaka, Sept 23 – A Dhaka court yesterday passed a temporarily stay order on all kinds of activities of the newly formed committee of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD). Read More »

Dhaka, Sept 22 – The Supreme Court (SC) authority on Sunday issued a circular fixing the criteria of using social media by judicial officers. Read More »

Dhaka, Sep 22 (UNB) – A court here on Sunday sentenced five members of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to 12 years imprisonment each in a case filed over the 2005 bomb attack in city’s Khilkhet. Read More »

Boris Johnson has said he will “wait and see what the judges say” before deciding whether to recall Parliament. The Supreme Court will hear two appeals that will determine whether the prime minister acted lawfully in suspending Parliament for five weeks. Read More »

Kishoreganj – Ten individuals including four siblings have been awarded life imprisonment in the case relating to the killing of Manik Mia,33, who died in an attack by the rivals centring grabbing of land at Karimganj. Read More »

Dhaka, Sept 16 – The government has so far dissolved a total of 655,220 e-mutation cases through online against 10 lakh application for it within only one and half a month of introduction of the system. Read More »

Dhaka, Sept 16 – Bangladesh Press Council has barred the media not to publish the arguments and discussion between judges and lawyers in the courtroom during the court proceedings of the cases. Read More »

Paris, Sep 12 (AP/UNB) — The only daughter of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has been found guilty by a Paris court of charges that she ordered her bodyguard to detain and strike a plumber for taking photos at the Saudi royal family’s apartment in the French capital. Read More »

Dhaka, Sept 8 (UNB) – A court here on Sunday granted bail to former caretaker government adviser barrister Mainul Hosein in a defamation case filed by journalist Masuda Bhatti. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tofazzol Hossain granted the bail on bond Tk 5,000. On September 3, the court sent Mainul Hosein to jail after rejecting his bail petition in the case. Barrister ... Read More »

Dhaka, Sep 3 (UNB) – A court here on Tuesday rejected a bail plea of former caretaker government adviser Mainul Hosein and sent him to jail in a defamation case filed by journalist Masuda Bhatti. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tofazzol Hossain passed the order when Mainul surrendered before the court after expiry of his five-month bail. Dhaka Bar Association’s former president ... Read More »

Dhaka, Sep 3 (UNB) – BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia sought bail again on Tuesday from the High Court Division in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case in which she had been jailed for 10 years. Her lawyer Kaisar Kamal filed the petition on her behalf. The court had rejected her previous petition on July 31 in the case filed by ... Read More »

Barguna, Sep 1 – Police on Sunday pressed charges against 24 people, including Aysha Siddika Minni, in a case filed over the murder of Rifat Sharif. Read More »

Dhaka, Aug 29 – After giving warning the Superintendent of Barguna police for media briefing of a sensational murder case, the High Court yesterday directed the government to formulate a guideline on how much statement the law enforcers could make on the investigation of the cases. It asked the home secretary and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to formulate ... Read More »

Dhaka – The High Court on Thursday directed the Law Ministry to keep Narail Session’s Judge Sheikh Abdul Ahad away from conducting criminal cases for one year for exempting the prime accused in a murder case. It also asked the ministry to take necessary steps to present the matter before the General Administration (GA) Committee of the Supreme Court. The ... Read More »

Dhaka, Aug 28 – Only around 31-minute time was spent to pass a bill on an average while 71 per cent of the total bills were passed in previous 10th parliament in between one to 30 minutes, Transparency International, Bangladesh revealed this at a report. Read More »