The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) yesterday submitted a charge sheet against six people, including five police officials, in a case filed over the custodial death of Rayhan Ahmed.

Police yesterday arrested a man for raping a minor girl in Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur.

Detectives took around eight years just to analyse footage and collect evidence of the mayhem Hefajat carried in 2013 as it was a “big incident”, said AKM Hafiz Akter, additional commissioner of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

Police today recovered the decomposed body of a child from a pond near Madbar Bazar in Jalkuri Taltola area of Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj.

Because the mayhem that Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh carried out across the country on May 5, 2013 was such a “big incident”, it took around 8-years to analyse the footage, sort out the evidence and take the testimony, police said today.

A woman died after she fell from a rickshaw as muggers from a private car pulled her bag in Dhaka’s Kamalapur area early this morning.

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) submitted a charge-sheet today against six people, including five police officials, in a case filed in connection with the custodial killing of Rayhan Ahmed.

A man accused in four cases was stabbed to death by unidentified criminals in Khulna’s Sonagazi upazila today.

A man was shot dead by unidentified criminals in broad daylight in Bogura’s Shajahanpur upazila yesterday.

Two people in Lalmonirhat were arrested on Monday night in a case filed under the Digital Security Act on charges of gambling.

Doctors at Dhaka Medical College’s forensic medicine department have completed the primary post-mortem on the body of female college student, which was recovered from her Gulshan flat on April 26.

Hefajat-e-Islam last night demanded release of “Ulema and religious-minded general people” who were arrested over violence by the Islamist organisation in March during demonstrations protesting Indian Prime Minister Narandra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh.

Police have arrested a man on charge of raping a teenage girl in Khulna’s Rupsha upazila today.

Police have arrested Mufti Abdur Rahim Quasemi, the former joint general secretary of the Hefajat-e-Islam Brahmanbaria district and a member of the central committee, who earlier resigned from the organisation seeking justice of those involved in the violence on March 26 to 28 in the district.

Police arrested eight activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its wing organisations from Ullapara in Sirajganj early today.

Police arrested a youth for uploading a video on Facebook, issuing death threats to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

Miscreants shot a person to death in broad daylight in Bogura’s Shahjahanpur upazila this morning.

Four Hefajat-e-Islam leaders were placed on remand yesterday in seven cases filed with police stations in the capital and Chattogram over the 2013 mayhem and the recent violence in Dhaka and Chattogram.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday served a legal notice on the government, asking it to verify through forensic tests the authenticity of an alleged conversation between the college student found dead in a Gulshan flat and Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir.

Rab today claimed to have arrested 12 persons, including a mastermind, behind illegal bitcoin operation in the country.