Mili Rani Malakar, d/o. Shri Khoka Malakar of village Kholadapunia under Jokiganj PS in Sylhet was abducted on April 24 and left in a critical condition of unconscious at Bhattapara Primary School on May 1 late night, 90 miles East from Sylhet HQ. The following day local people collected funds and send the […]
Bituni (Ashru) D’Silva (14) d/o.James D’Silva and Sima Silva of South Bhadarthi village in Kaliganj thana under Gazipur district was gang- raped by Mehedi Hasan (24), Dulal (28), Russel (20) Sohail and Jssik on 30 April at D’Silva’s house. The rapists first raped Sima and when Bituni came forward to save her mother, she was […]
A few days after the Awami League threatened to disobey the law and take to the streets to free their political leaders; a sudden crackdown began at midnight May 29 by the joint forces. Over 200 people were arrested, including 33 district and upazila level top leaders of AL, BNP and their front organisations, municipality […]
A Dhaka court on May 26 deferred the hearing on a charge framing against Sheikh Hasina and eight others in the Niko case.
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The High Court on May 26 asked the authorities not to frame charges against Tarique in the Tk 21 crore bribery case against him involving the murder of a Bashundhara Group Director until June 2, after a petition filed by Tarique.
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The full bench of the Supreme Court on May 28 upheld the High Court order of Apr. 8 that stayed the proceedings of a graft case for two months against Dr. Zubaida Rahman wife of Tarique Rahman. Her advocate took steps for hearing another HC ruling that asked the ACC to explain within two weeks […]
The ACC on May 29 filed a case against senior AL leader and former MP Tofail Ahmed, his wife and daughter for corruption. The case states that Tofail amassed Tk. 2.45 crore wealth, which is incompatible with known sources of income, and hid information about Tk. 1.86 crore bank deposits and savings in his wealth […]
Bribery was the mechanism for getting jobs for 88 typists of the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC). A task force for probing irregularities in the DCC found that each of 88 new typists got their jobs in 2006 by paying from Tk l lakh to 1.5 lakh to some dishonest officials. The taskforce arranged a re-examination, […]
A student of Shanto-Mariam University of Creative Technology, Mehedi Hasan Rana, was mercilessly beaten up by some students of Asian University on May 20 when he went there to protest a verbal and physical assault against his sister by three students in an elevator the same day. Ten days later he was still fighting for […]
The Tangail reporter for The Daily Star, Mirza Shakil, while working on a report on harassment of visitors and corruption in the local prison, was severely beaten by jail guards on May 24. After seeing guards harassing visitors he took photos and phoned the Jailer, Nazrul Islam, who hung up the phone and sent 12 […]