A Panchagarh court has issued arrest warrants for nine people allegedly involved in issuing a fatwa for halala marriage that led to a middle-aged couple being isolated for four months in their village.

A 65-year-old farmer in Narsigndi’s Monohardi upazila was released yesterday, after four days of imprisonment against a fake warrant.

The CID yesterday said the investigation reports of the 15 cases filed against different people, including actor Pori Moni, model Piasha, producer Nazrul Islam Raj and expelled Awami League leader Helena Jahangir, would be submitted in a month and a half.

The defence lawyers for Maj (retd) Sinha Rashed Khan murder case yesterday cross-examined the case’s complainant Sharmin Shahriar Ferdous.

A Dhaka court yesterday concluded recording statements of witnesses in a case filed against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others for misappropriating and laundering about Tk 4 crore from Farmers Bank in 2016.

A Panchagarh court has issued an arrest warrant against nine people involved in imposing a “fatwa of halala marriage” that led to a middle-aged couple suffering in isolation for about four months after they disagreed to obey it.   

A Dhaka court today concluded recording statements of witnesses in a case filed against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others for misappropriating and laundering about Tk 4 crore from Farmers Bank in 2016.

Seventy-four Rohingyas, who managed to flee from camps in Cox’s Bazar, were detained in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram early today.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) claimed to have arrested two members of banned militant group Ansar Al Islam from Khulna city yesterday.

Justice Amir Hossain, a sitting judge of the High Court and the International Crimes Tribunal, passed away at Dhaka Combined Military Hospital this morning. He was 64.

A 65-year-old farmer of Narsigndi’s Monohardi upazila has been released after serving four days in jail, following his arrest under a “fake warrant”.

A Dhaka court today set October 20 for hearing on charge framing against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in 11 cases, including one filed over sedition.

The Supreme Court chamber judge yesterday stayed for six weeks a High Court verdict that granted bail to Joy Gopal Sarkar, general secretary of Dhaka Wanderers Club, in four separate money laundering cases. He allegedly had links to the illegal casino business.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against Monir Hossain, widely known as “Golden Monir”, in a case filed over possessing firearms.

The High Court yesterday ordered a man to produce his 22-year-old daughter, whom he allegedly confined to his house in Dhaka’s Uttara, before this court on September 1.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed three people, including two former owners of e-commerce platform E-orange, on a five-day remand in a case filed over embezzlement of around Tk 1,100 crore.

After hearing the writ petition filed by Nakano Eriko, a Japanese national who came to Bangladesh to fight for legal custody of her two daughters, a High Court rule yesterday said the children will remain at Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Victim Support Centre until August 31.

Amid the rising onslaught on private properties, including a place of worship and cemetery belonging to the minorities by land grabbers in Kuakata, the custodian of the town, the mayor himself, has built a kitchen market on public land right next to the Kuakata-Dhaka highway.

A Dinajpur court sent five men to jail in a case filed for gang raping a woman after tying her husband to a tree in the district’s Bashbaria village on Friday night.

Major (retd) Sinha Rashed Khan was shot dead by now suspended police inspector Liaqat Ali as per instructions from Pradeep Kumar Das, former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station, said the victim’s elder sister.