Ashutosh Sarkar

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has no authority to freeze, attach or impose any restrictions on anybody’s property without permission from the court, the High Court has observed in a verdict.

The High Court in the full text of a verdict has come down hard on the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for its failure to complete investigations and submitting their reports to the lower courts concerned in connection with corruption cases on time.

The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs yesterday submitted a meeting resolution centring the construction of an independence monument at the capital’s Suhrawardy Udyan to the High Court. The resolution, however, did not specify any decisions on whether the old and ecologically important trees will be cut.

Final justice has yet to be delivered over the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally on the capital’s Bangabandhu Avenue, even almost three years after a trial court found 49 people guilty.

Twelve years have gone by since the trial of our history’s most tragic assassination has been completed, but the five self-confessed killers could not be brought back to the country for execution.

The attempt of perpetrators to kill Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by detonating bombs in Gopalganj in 2000 is an ignominious chapter for the nation, the HC said in the full text of the verdict on the Kotalipara bomb plot case.

The Supreme Court buildings, most of which were constructed in the beginning of the 20th century, stand still with an eerie calm hanging all over the premises.

The High Court could not deliver its decision on a judicial inquiry committee’s findings over the dengue outbreak in 2019 even 16 months after the submission of the probe report.

The government is yet to inform the High Court about its decision over the old and ecologically important trees at the capital’s Suhrawardy Udyan, although the court wanted to know about it more than three weeks back.

Life imprisonment means 30 years in jail and a convict awarded such a sentence should get remission of seven and a half years as per the laws, according to a Supreme Court judgement.

The High Court has thrown a lifeline to People’s Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (PLFSL) as it constituted a 10-member board to run the troubled non-bank financial institution, thus saving it from potential liquidation.

The High Court has appointed five independent directors to the much-talked about International Leasing and Financial Services for smoothly running operations as it had incurred a loss of around Tk 3,000 crore.

The High Court is expected to start its hearing soon on the death reference and appeals of the Holey Artisan attack case, as the case paper book has already been prepared by the office concerned of the court.

The High Court yesterday acquitted a death-row prisoner convicted of killing his wife in Gournadi, Barishal, in 2010.

Having gotten used to a hand-to-mouth existence, and at times even worse, Birangona Shila Guha could never imagine that she would have her own a house with running water and electricity.

Surobala Das, 60, a landless single mother of three from Brahmanbaria cannot believe her luck.

The High Court in full text of a verdict released on Wednesday blasted Etihad Airways for harassing two Bangladesh-born women at Abu Dhabi International Airport in June 2011.

A probe by the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has found seven former officials of Pallabi Police Station responsible for wrongly arresting Md Arman, a technician from Mirpur’s Benarasi Palli, in 2016.

Negligence of Sylhet’s Murari Chand College’s principal and hostel superintendent “crumbled” the right to life and personal liberty of the woman raped on campus, the High Court observed yesterday, directing that they be suspended.

The Official Secrets Act, under which journalist Rozina Islam has been accused and sent to jail, directly contradicts the Right to Information Act, Public-interest Information Disclosure Act, and the spirit of the constitution.