Emrul Hasan Bappi

Trial of the narcotics case filed against Lesedi Molapisi, a woman from Botswana, is yet to begin at a Dhaka court. But several African media outlets have reported that Molapisi is set to be executed or has been executed for smuggling 3 kilos of heroin into Bangladesh.

Former justice Bhabani Prasad Singha is well known for his humanitarian work. And due to this very renown, a fraud gang decided to target him six months ago.

Russel Khan -- who was neither a Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) staffer nor a driver by profession -- drove the DSCC garbage truck that rammed into a 12th-grader of Notre Dame College in Dhaka’s Gulistan area a year ago, found a police probe.

Maya Begum, a survivor of the blaze that engulfed Tazreen factory 10 years ago, is losing all hope for justice, or financial assistance for that matter, as proceedings of the case centring this incident is progressing at a snail’s pace.

As with most evenings, Nur Alom Madbar was hanging out at the Ganganagar Bazar in Shariatpur on August 10, when a group of men grabbed him and took him to a side alley.

Police have cleared Prothom Alo senior journalist Rozina Islam of the charges in an Official Secrets Act case.

As a government servant, the suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons, Bazlur Rashid, had earned only Tk 52 lakh legally during his service between 1993 and 2018.

Two top bosses of the e-commerce platform Evaly pocketed Tk 21.62 lakh through digital forgery, a police probe in a Digital Security Act case has found.

Seven years into the murder of secularist blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, the complainant of the case appears uninterested in justice and the police are clueless about his whereabouts.

Seven years ago, Mohammad Sabuj and his neighbour Mohiuddin Sarkar from Cumilla’s Daudkandi paid around Tk 13 lakh to six people who lured them with well-paying jobs in Germany. 

A Dhaka court has found flaws in the charge sheet submitted by the Department of Narcotics Control in a case filed over the recovery of around 39,000 yaba pills from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in 2020.

Sued as an adult when she was actually 17 in 2020, a Jagannath University student has been languishing in jail under the Digital Security Act for almost a month.

A former staffer of the Shariatpur Sadar upazila election office has been sued under the Official Secrets Act for possessing photos of confidential documents, EC server passwords, and audio and video recordings of internal office conversations.

Police have cleared Mohammad Khalil from charges of a narcotics case a few days after he was framed in the capital’s cantonment area by an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Pallabi Police Station and two informants.

Although Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) shows rising drug cases and arrests in its annual round-up every year, more than half of the cases end up in acquittals.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced Sabrina Sharmin Hossain, chairperson of JKG Health Care, and seven others to 11 years of rigorous imprisonment in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.

Neelam Ghar -- a century-old building in Old Dhaka used by the British and Pakistani rulers to auction off confiscated objects -- has been pushed to the verge of demolition yesterday.

Bus owners of Shariatpur have imposed conditions on the movement of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) buses on Dhaka-Shariatpur route via Padma Bridge, drawing flak from locals and netizens.

While sentencing 46 officials of Destiny-2000 to jail for money laundering, a Dhaka court yesterday ordered the government to form a committee to liquidate assets of a co-op of the company and return the money to its investors and shareholders.

As his name was called out, Ahad Ali stepped inside the courtroom and stood in the dock with both hands pressed together in a gesture of mercy, staring at the judge with pleading eyes.