Police have arrested a madrasa principal in a case filed for raping a 13-year-old student for the last one year and blackmailing her to post a video of her online. 

A Pabna court today sentenced 10 people to life in prison for killing a man in Pabna’s Bhangura upazila in 2009.

Five-year-old Fahima Akter apparently saw her father being intimate with a woman who was not her mother.  

A police official of Rajshahi has been sent to jail on charges of possessing 400 yaba pills.

The High Court yesterday wanted to know what steps have been taken by the government to cancel the provision of the Evidence Act, which allows questioning the character of rape victims in court.

Former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das used to extort people by threatening them to have them killed in “crossfire”, Mohammad Khairul Islam, senior assistant superintendent of police, testified before court.

An overwhelming majority of female victims of cyber harassment did not show any interest to file legal complaints with police after identification of the accused, found an analysis of police cyber support for women (PCSW).

The health and family welfare ministry yesterday suspended four staffers after 17 of its files went missing 19 days ago.

A transnational syndicate has been smuggling arms into Bangladesh from India and Myanmar for about four years. Its target group is criminals who would use arms in polls violence and Rohingya camps, say law enforcers.

There is no definite evidence that one or more people picked up cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore from home and tortured him physically and mentally in May last year, according to a police probe.

A mobile court in Moulvibazar sentenced a passenger to one month imprisonment for harassing a female student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) today.

The High Court today wanted to know what steps have been taken by the government to cancel the provision of Evidence Act which allows questioning the character of rape victims in court.

A constable of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) has been arrested with 14,000 pieces of yaba pills in Daudkandi Toll Plaza area of Cumilla while smuggling the drugs to Dhaka from Chattogram.

A man has been arrested for scamming people by pretending to recruit police constables in Gazaria upazila in Munshiganj.

A Dhaka court today sent MNH Bulu, chairman of BNS Group of Companies, to jail after rejecting his bail in a money laundering case.

The High Court today expressed displeasure at three government offices for not responding to its order that sought information about collection of tax from e-commerce platforms and steps taken against their alleged money laundering.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today told the parliament that hearing of the review petition against the verdict of High Court on 16th amendment of the Constitution will start very soon.

A Dhaka court today again adjourned, until December 15, the hearing on charge framing against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 15 others in Gatco corruption case.

Rab arrested a youth on charge of deceiving over 100 women -- posing as a member of different forces, including Rab, on TikTok.

With an aim to provide quick support to victims of cyber harassment, the police headquarters (PHQ) is going to introduce an artificial intelligence (AI) tool with all-women special wing called "Police Cyber Support for Women" (PCSW).