The High Court yesterday granted bail to Shafiur Rahman Farabi, who was sentenced to life in prison by the trial court in a case over the killing of writer-blogger Avijit Roy.

The Supreme Court has acquitted a condemned convict in a case filed over crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.

The group led by former Students Against Discrimination leader Abdur  Razzak Riyad, arrested for allegedly extorting a former Awami League  lawmaker’s family in Gulshan, had targeted another ex-AL MP, Abdul Kalam  Azad, a month earlier, said police.

A Rangpur court yesterday sent five people to jail in a case filed over the attacks on Hindu houses, vandalism, and looting of valuables in Rangpur’s Gangachara upazila.

The judge also handed down two-year jail terms to 17 other accused in the same case

At least 70 extortion cases were filed on average every month in the capital in the first six months this year, according to crime statistics shared by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

Former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun has said that most of the decisions made to suppress the July uprising came from political high-ups, including the prime minister herself.

At the height of the July uprising, many hospitals turned their backs -- some out of fear, others silenced or forced into complicity. State forces roamed halls of healing, seizing CCTV footage, erasing patient records, and threatening doctors not to treat the wounded.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque on a seven-day remand in a case filed over manipulating the Supreme Court verdict on the caretaker government system.

A landlord was beaten to death allegedly by local BNP activists in Narayanganj’s Araihazar yesterday, following a dispute over unpaid rent for a local party office set up on his property.

Munshiganj SP Muhammad Shamsul Alam Sarkar also confirmed the matter

Miscreants target deities at 50-year-old temple left unguarded overnight

Process to file a case with Kalabagan Police Station is underway

A case was filed last night against 1,200 unidentified individuals on vandalism and looting charges

Three days after the first round of attacks on Hindu homes in Rangpur’s Gangachara upazila, a case was filed last night against 1,200 unidentified individuals on vandalism and looting charges.

He was detained by the Detective Branch (DB) police on Monday night during a raid in the Pir Kashimpur area of the upazila

Law Adviser Asif Nazrul yesterday said the brutality committed by Sheikh Hasina and her associates during the July uprising may have exceeded that of the Pakistani forces during the 1971 Liberation War.

The probe body is expected to submit its report within five working days

He will be produced before a court tomorrow

A few local youths captured the dog, tied a noose around its neck, hung it from a tree, and then beat it to death, as per locals