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Emrul Hasan Bappi

Covering Human Rights, Crime & Justice

Ronjila Parvin - 56-year-old primary school headteacher from Bogura

Woman dies after muggers snatch her bag from rickshaw

30 August 2026
A 56-year-old primary school headteacher from Bogura, who was in the capital for eye treatment, died after falling from a moving rickshaw when two muggers snatched her bag yesterday.
30 August 2026
Bangladesh dental technologists private practice ban

The hassle of finding a hearing date

29 August 2026
Lawyer Hasan Mahmud attended a hearing in a cheque dishonour case at Dhaka’s Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court 8 on June 15.
29 August 2026
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Aug 21 blast probe, trial: Skewed from the get-go

21 August 2026
Twenty-two years after the August 21 grenade attack, the case remains one of the most consequential unresolved cases in Bangladesh’s history.
21 August 2026
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Once he played the villain opposite Salman Shah. Now he is accused in his murder case

9 August 2026
30 years after the actor’s death, longtime co-star Don has been sent to jail as CID investigates the case
9 August 2026
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2 years on, July cases move at a crawl

16 July 2026
Two years after losing her son during the July uprising, Bithy Begum’s long wait for justice has turned her grief into anguish.
16 July 2026
Daily Star and Prothom Alo office attack investigation update

Attacks on Star, Prothom Alo: 6 months on, probe at a standstill

18 June 2026
Six months after the arson attacks on the country’s two leading dailies -- The Daily Star and Prothom Alo -- the investigation remains stalled despite a direct ministerial directive for its swift completion.
18 June 2026
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Pro-AL lawyers ‘shut out’ of at least 13 bar elections

12 May 2026
Around 200 lawyers aligned with the Awami League -- a party whose activities are currently banned under the Anti-Terrorism Act -- have been unable to contest at least 13 bar association elections since January, according to members of lawyers’ associations across the country.
12 May 2026
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DB raid nets 8kg heroin and one of its own

30 April 2026
Serving constable among two remanded as police investigate alleged drug network across Dhaka and outskirts
30 April 2026
Bike accident case

Extortion Case: Rab clears 8 students

Rab has cleared eight Mirpur students of any wrongdoing and said the complainant of the extortion case had delivered “incorrect information”.  
12 March 2023
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Bank exam question leak: Buet Prof Nikhil finally charged

Buet Prof Nikhil Ranjan Dhar was finally charged with involvement in bank recruitment question paper leak even though the investigation officer (IO) had earlier dropped his name from the charge sheet.
31 January 2023
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Finally free from the clutches of influentials

Dhaka district administration is planning to make the historic Brajo Niketan, located in Dhaka’s Nawabganj, a heritage site, as authorities recently retrieved it from three decades of illegal occupation.
3 January 2023
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ASI who framed trader possessed yaba

A police probe has found that an assistant sub-inspector, who arrested a trader for possession of yaba in September, illegally possessed 100 yaba pills.
27 December 2022
Awami League-BNP politics

1,223 BNP men arrested in nine days

Police arrested a total of 1,223 BNP leaders and activists from different parts of the capital and produced them before the court in nine days just before the party's December 10 rally.
12 December 2022
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Case records go missing from court

Records and documents of four narcotics cases have gone missing about 10 months ago from a Dhaka court, raising questions about the security measures at the record room.
12 December 2022

Locked up for no reason

Amatullah Bushra, a friend of slain Buet student Fardin Noor Parash, has been in jail for four weeks although the law enforcers found no evidence of her involvement in Fardin’s murder.
3 December 2022
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Executed before trial even began!

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.
1 December 2022

Fraudsters exploit former justice’s good nature

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.
30 November 2022

Charges pressed against 2 DSCC staffers among 3

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.
25 November 2022
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Tazreen Tragedy: The never-ending wait

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.
23 November 2022
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Shariatpur youth ‘mauled in DNC’s custody’

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.
20 November 2022
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Police clear journalist Rozina of charges

Police have cleared Prothom Alo senior journalist Rozina Islam of the charges in an Official Secrets Act case.
25 October 2022
Ex-DIG Bazlur Rashid

Earned Tk 52 lakh legally, bought flat worth Tk 3.09cr

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.
23 October 2022
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Pocketing Tk 21 lakh: Charges pressed against Evaly chairman, CEO

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.
15 October 2022
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Blogger Oyasiqur killing: Complainant ‘unavailable’

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.
15 October 2022
Human Trafficking

Human trafficking cases: Only 1.5pc see conviction

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. 
8 October 2022
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They confessed, yet not charged

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.
29 September 2022
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Digital security act: Sued at 17, JnU student in jail

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.
18 September 2022
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Copying govt docs: Ex-EC staffer sued under DSA, Official Secrets Act

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.
15 September 2022

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