Authorities arrested an Indian national at Dhaka’s international airport after finding 11.8 kilograms of cannabis concealed in his luggage, the Department of Narcotics Control said Saturday.
Bangladesh’s government has set a one-year goal to reduce a 4.5 million-case court backlog to between 2 million and 2.5 million through mediation, arbitration and out-of-court negotiations.
Bangladesh’s High Court has ordered authorities to locate fisherman Miraj Sheikh and produce him within 15 days after witnesses said Coast Guard officers detained him April 10 near the Sundarbans.
The Shapla Chattar killings refer to a deadly security operation carried out in Dhaka on the night of May 5 and the early hours of May 6, 2013, when police and other security forces dispersed thousands of supporters of Hefazat-e-Islam from the capital’s commercial district.
The International Crimes Tribunal’s investigation agency has submitted a draft report alleging that former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was the principal accused in the May 5, 2013, Shapla Chattar killings, with prosecutors saying they plan to file formal charges Tuesday to begin trial proceedings.
Rapid Action Battalion officers arrested a man accused of fatally stabbing his wife in front of their two children after she refused to give him money for drugs, officials said on Tuesday.
A shooting inside a mosque in southwestern Bangladesh left one businessman critically injured and another man wounded early Sunday, prompting an investigation into whether the attack was linked to a business dispute.
Bangladesh’s Parliament earlier in the month passed a criminal procedure amendment bill requiring authorities to inform a person’s family within 12 hours of an arrest.
Police in Bangladesh arrested a man in Chattogram’s Patiya on Saturday night, accusing him of using AI generated images with top politicians and fake identities to defraud people.
A Bangladeshi police investigator told the Associated Press about 40 Bangladeshis may have died after recruiters sent men to Russia with promises of civilian jobs, then pushed them into Russia’s war in Ukraine.
