Shah Azam, 28, a yaba godfather of Teknaf, surrendered to police on February 16, 2019, promising to leave the drug business and never engage in the trade again. He was sent to jail at the time and released in November 2020.

Police yesterday (October 1, 2022) recovered the dismembered body of a garment worker three days after he went missing at Kaliganj upazila of Gazipur.

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion yesterday (October 1, 2022) arrested four members of a gang, including the ringleader for allegedly looting the belongings of over 300 expatriates after making them unconscious at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

A union-level Jubo League leader was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Lakshmipur on Friday night.

Police recovered the bodies of a woman and her two children from a house in Sirajganj’s Belkuchi upazila yesterday.

A Patuakhali court yesterday sent three people to jail for raping a woman in Patuakhali’s Kalapara upazila.

A Jashore court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of illegal arms dealing.

Two people were arrested today (October 1, 2022) in a case filed for gang-raping a 19-year-old girl in Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha.

Police recovered the decomposed bodies of a woman and her two sons from a house at Moupur village in Belkuchi upazila of Sirajganj this evening (October 1, 2022).

A former village police was beaten to death allegedly by his rivals over a land dispute in Shibaloy upazila of Manikganj today (October 1, 2022).

Police are on the verge of completing probes into the 12 cases filed over the alleged desecration of the Holy Quran at a mandap during Durga puja in Cumilla city last year that triggered violence and led to attacks on Hindus.

In the last nine months, 734 women and children were raped across the country, said rights organisation Ain o Salish Kendra.

A local Awami League leader has been accused in a case of raping a 15-year-old girl with physical disabilities in Madaripur town.

A Chattogram businessman hiding in Dhaka to avoid arrest was caught by police on Thursday.

A Thakrugaon court on Thursday sentenced three men to life in prison for possessing 300 bottles of Phensedyl in November 2018.

Three persons, including two local Chhatra League leaders, were sent to jail today (September 30, 2022) in a case filed for allegedly demanding extortion from a construction company at the construction site at Saltha upazila in Faridpur.

Police recovered the floating body of a woman, wrapped in a blanket, from a pond in Sadar upazila of Narsingdi today (September 30, 2022).

Chattogram Metropolitan Police have arrested a fugitive businessman from a house at Gulshan in Dhaka in connection with 21 cases filed with two police stations in the port city.

At least 15 people were killed in “extrajudicial killings” and “custody of law enforcement agencies” across the country till September of this year, Ain O Salish Kendra said in a report.

A member of the Hijra community was stabbed to death in Dhaka’s Paribagh area early today.