The Supreme Court yesterday deferred until today the date for hearing the leave to appeal petitions filed by the state and the Anti-Corruption Commission challenging the High Court verdict that acquitted BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia from Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.

The law enforcers arrested a death row fugitive who had been evading arrest for the past 18 years in Gazipur district on Saturday night.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has recently raided the cantonment residence of Lieutenant General Saiful Alam, former director general of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police and other law enforcement agencies arrested 167 suspected criminals, including robbers and muggers, during a crackdown in the capital on Saturday, according to a DMP press release.

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has interrogated five people, including a retired judge of the Supreme Court who is now in jail, in the case filed over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi.

The Democratic Rights Committee, a platform formed after August 5, has urged the government to take active measures against organised violence, including murder, rape, robbery, extrajudicial killings, sexual harassment, public death threats, and the suppression of creative activities.

A deputy commissioner of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and another individual were sued today under the Torture and Custodial Death (Prohibition) Act for allegedly torturing a man while in custody.

This is the 117th extension of the deadline for probe report submission

A three-year-old boy was killed allegedly by his mother at their residence in Narsingdi's Raipura upazila last night, locals said

Jewel Rana, additional deputy commissioner of Mohammadpur zone, said the women were escorted to Mohammadpur Police Station for their safety

Three suspected robbers were killed and four of their associates injured in a mob beating in Shariatpur.

Based on a secret tip-off, they were arrested from Khulna-bound Soudia Paribahan and MR Paribahan buses in Magura

At least 41 people were arrested yesterday in a raid conducted by joint forces in a slum in Gazipur’s Tongi

Two suspected robbers have been killed and their five associates injured in a mass beating in Shariatpur.

Chief Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal Md Tajul Islam yesterday said that the investigation report on several cases including those against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina is expected by this month and the trial will start within one to one and a half months after that.

At least three people were injured when a gang of robbers looted a microbus carrying a Bangladeshi expatriate and at least two other vehicles in Pabna’s Santhia upazila early yesterday.

Home Adviser Lieutenant General Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (Retd) today asked all concerned to take action considering crime, not party

Around 4:00am, locals rescued the two and started for Bogura Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital

The attackers also attempted to snatch his mobile phone, wallet, and wireless radio, police said

The body has not yet been returned by the BSF