Members of the cabinet committee on law and order yesterday came down heavily on police for torturing a Bangladesh Bank official and a staff of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), saying those incidents had tarnished the image of the department.

An alleged criminal has been killed and two of his associates injured in a ‘gunfight’ with police in Laxmipur Sadar upazila.

Pakistan has hanged 12 convicts, the largest number of people executed on the same day since the country overturned a ban on executions.