Nine people were arrested in connection with torturing a woman at a remote union under Baufal upazila of Patuakhali on Thursday.

Vice-president of Hefajat-e-Islam’s Dhaka city unit Maulana Jubair Ahmed was placed on a five-day remand today in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over the 2013 mayhem in Dhaka.

Detective Branch of police detained another leader of Hefajat-e-Islam from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area this afternoon.

Seven more supporters of Hefajat-e-Islam have been arrested in several cases filed over vandalism and arson in Brahmanbaria on March 26 and 28 centring the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to a press release of Special Branch of district police.

A Bogura court yesterday sent three men to jail in connection with the rape of a woman in the district’s Sherpur upazila.

Police arrested Vice-president of Hefajat-e-Islam’s Dhaka city unit Maulana Jubair Ahmed from his house in the capital yesterday.

Police detained Hefajat-e-Islam’s Dhaka city unit’s Vice-president Maulana Jubair Ahmed from his residence in the capital today.

Twenty-four more people were arrested in the past 24 hours in connection with the clashes and vandalism by Hefajat-e-Islam activists and supporters in Brahmanbaria last month, police said today.

Police today arrested a youth, who is said to have a mental condition, for the rape and assault of a 100-year-old woman in Jashore Sadar upazila's Chanchra union.

Members of Counter Terrorism (CT) of CMP arrested a man from Naikhongchhari of Bandarban district early today on charge of helping Rohingya refugees obtain Bangladeshi National Identity (NID) cards with help of Election Commission staff.

Police have arrested 30 more, including leaders and activists of Hefajat-e-Islam, in 24 hours till last night in connection with the mayhem in Brahmanbaria from March 26 to 28, centring the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Three Bangladeshi men have reportedly been detained by police in Malaysia recently for possessing forged passports.

A farmer was beaten to death yesterday, after he allegedly slaughtered a goat for damaging his crops in Gazipur’s Kaliganj upazila.

Members of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested a Hefajat-e-Islam leader from the capital’s Lalbag area this evening.

Police have arrested three persons, including a mother and daughter, in a rape case at Madhukhali Upazila of Faridpur.

A man suffered bullet injury after a councillor allegedly opened fire at him over dispute centering the formation of a mosque committee in Raozan upazila of Chattogram today.

Miscreants killed an expatriate, visiting from Italy, in Faridpur’s Bhanga upazila last night.

A man was brutally killed by unidentified assailants in Bogura’s Sadar upazila.

The body of a shop employee was found on a road near his residence in Bogura’s Sadar upazila early today.

Sirajganj police in October 2019 had recovered the decomposed body in Sadar thana area.