The upazila nirbahi officer of Lohagara, Chittagong and three policemen offered unconditional apology to the High Court yesterday for sentencing a man through a mobile court when he was already in police custody.

Police recovered 4,500 yaba tablets from a private car on Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway in Chittagong's Lohagara upazila yesterday.

One man was killed and two others injured during “gunfights” with police in Narail, Jessore and Satkhira districts early yesterday.

Police in Chittagong blames Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, for plotting to create communal riots for ousting the government.