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Golam Kibria Shamim alias GK Shamim

GK Shamim, seven bodyguards sentenced to life in prison

A Dhaka court has sentenced influential contractor GK Shamim and his seven bodyguards to lifetime imprisonment under the Arms Control Act

High Court

HC repeals provision of prior permission to arrest govt employees

Section 41 of the Public Service Act regarding the provision for prior permission to arrest government employees has been repealed by the High Court (HC) as it conflicts with several other articles ...

Sheikh Hasina, the day after the 21 August 2004 grenade attack

21 August attack one of worst organised crimes: Chief Prosecutor

The trial court delivered its verdict in the case on 11 October, 2018, handing down death sentences to 19 accused and life term to another 19 while the case was now pending for a mandatory review in ...

Supreme Court building

Houses of Speaker, Deputy Speaker on JS premises legal: SC

On 21 June, 2004, the High Court passed an order on the petition saying the construction of the new buildings were illegal and directed to declare the National Parliament House as “national heritage”

High Court

HC puts stay order on Shohoz's fine

The High Court (HC) on Sunday stayed the verdict of Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection that fined Shohoz.com Tk 200,000 following a complaint of a Dhaka University (DU) student ...

High Court

Graft case against Tarique, Zubaida HC asks trial court to dispose of case soon

As both of them remained fugitive, the court rejected the writ petitions of the two saying these are not acceptable, said ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan

People gather to protest in response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, in Houston, Texas, US 24 June, 2022

US Supreme Court strikes down right to abortion

The US Supreme Court on Friday struck down the right to abortion in a seismic ruling that shredded five decades of constitutional protections and prompted several right-leaning states to impose ...

Supreme Court of Bangladesh

SC acquits two death-row convicts, commutes sentence of another

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday acquitted two death-row convicts and commuted the sentence of another in a case for killing a woman and her daughter in 2008

Editorial

Destroying rivers for personal gain must stop We welcome the Appellate Division verdict

Illegal sand extractor Selim Khan, also a UP chairman, is a living example of abuse of power and political malpractice for personal gain. This elected unopposed people’s representative also used the ...

Selim Khan

Meghna river Appellate Division cancels HC order on Selim Khan’s sand extraction

The Appellate Division has cancelled an order the High Court division pronounced four years ago allowing Selim Khan to extract sand from shoals of Meghna river

Awami League lawmaker Haji Mohammad Salim

Graft case Haji Salim likely to surrender before court in afternoon

The High Court asked him to surrender to the trial court within 30 days of receiving the verdict

Editorial

Verdict on money-laundering case Will Destiny’s clients get their money back?

The court also directed the government to form a six-member committee headed by a former judge of the Supreme Court regarding returning the money to the affected clients of Destiny Co-operative ...

Destiny MD Rafiqul Amin was taken to the court from prison on Thursday

Money laundering and embezzlement Destiny’s Rafiqul sentenced to 12 years in prison

A Dhaka court has sentenced 46 persons, including Destiny Group’s managing director Rafiqul Amin, to different terms in a case filed on the allegations of money embezzlement and laundering

Supreme Court of India

India Supreme Court keeps in abeyance sedition law, asks govt not to register cases

In a historic development, the Supreme Court of India on Wednesday ordered that Section 124A of the Indian penal code which criminalises the offence of sedition be kept in abeyance till the ...

The convicted sent to jail after the pronouncement of the verdict on 25 April 2022

Enu, Rupon among 11 jailed for money laundering

Enamul Haque alias Enu, his brother Rupon Bhuiyan and nine others on Monday were awarded seven years of imprisonment in a case filed for money laundering

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