Muntakim Saad

The family members of Benarasi weaver Mohammad Arman, who was wrongly arrested five years ago, are counting the minutes for his release.

He drives a Nissan X-Trail and lives in a duplex with foreign fittings in Keshorhat village of Rajshahi’s Mohanpur, where such luxuries raise quite a few eyebrows.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police have arrested six people, including two bank officials in connection with question leak of different university admission and bank recruitment tests.

In the wake of “gunfight” incidents involving law enforcement agencies and instances of lethal use of force, equipping police with body-worn cameras can ensure transparency and accountability, according to criminologists and rights activists.

Police yesterday claimed to have arrested members of a gang that used to steal personal information of elderly affluent people and blackmail them to pay anywhere between Tk 5 to 50 lakh.

Rafique Sikder, a filmmaker, admitted his 55-year-old ailing mother Rawshan Ara to the capital’s Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) for kidney treatment on July 1, 2018.

Interpol put six human traffickers of Bangladesh in their “wanted-list”, on charges of deceiving jobseekers and “wrongfully confining and killing” people over ransom demands.

The rise of Monir Hossain, also known as Golden Monir, over almost two decades was unaffected by regime change because he knew how to keep high-ups in the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha and the housing and public works ministry happy.

From petty crimes to murder, stalking to rape, mugging to drug abuse -- teen gangs have been making headlines again for the last few months.

Police checkposts stand just before the entrance of Mohammadpur Geneva Camp. A few steps into the camp, it’s the same old sight that used to be seen at the notorious drug den of the capital before the 2018 anti-narcotics crackdown.

Three days into the death of senior ASP Anisul Karim allegedly due to beating by staffers of Mind Aid Psychiatry and De-Addiction Hospital in the capital’s Adabor, four of its shareholders are still on the run.

A day after Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Anisul Karim was allegedly assaulted to death by its staff, the Mind Aid Psychiatry and De-Addiction Hospital in the capital’s Adabor was all but deserted yesterday.

Kohinur Begum (57) came to the capital 25 years ago with her husband, who was a rickshaw puller, and four sons from Bhola, as their house was destroyed by the nearby river.

The incident of Erfan Salim and his men assaulting a navy officer in Dhanmondi on Sunday was not recorded by any CCTV cameras in the vicinity, but the police have amateur videos of the incident.

With suspended ward councillor Erfan Salim behind bars, locals in Debidas Ghat Lane of the capital’s Chawkbazar are still afraid to talk out about his illegal activities.

The CCTV camera of Hotel Bondhu captured it all.

More than a dozen complaints of assault, blackmail and extortion, and verbal abuse of female visitors have been submitted to Jahangirnagar University authorities against its chief security officer Sudipta Shaheen in the four years since he took office.

The books he used to read, the prizes he won, and the clothes he wore -- all are now stowed gracefully in a showcase, just the way Abrar Fahad used to keep them in his dormitory in Buet.

She is a woman of myriad disguises.

Stamford University student Shipra Debnath, also a crew member of slain Maj (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan, has promised to file cases under the Digital Security Act against police officials and others who made her life miserable by circulating her private photos on social media.