In a landmark verdict, the High Court yesterday scrapped a part of the 15th amendment to the constitution that abolished the non-partisan caretaker government system.
Harendranath Chandra, a 79-year-old man, has finally received justice after a gruelling four-decade legal battle. Falsely accused of embezzling funds from Sonali Bank, Harendranath endured years of hardship, including imprisonment and financial ruin.
The Appellate Division is yet to settle the issues because the parties concerned apparently remain apathetic about disposing of the appeals
The High Court yesterday acquitted BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar and all the others convicted in two cases over the grisly August 21, 2004 grenade attack.
Sultana Jasmine, a 41-year-old land office employee from Naogaon, was picked up by the members of Rapid Action Battalion on March 22 last year.
The Supreme Court yesterday formally proposed the formation of a Judicial Appointment Council led by the chief justice through an ordinance to select judges for recruitment to both divisions of the apex court.
Disclosing his plan, the chief justice also said specific rules will be formulated for constituting the council under the constitution and he will share all these relevant issues with the HC judges later on
The Supreme Court has proposed establishing a separate secretariat for the judiciary to make it truly independent and effectively separate it from the executive branch.
Fifteen years have passed since the BDR mutiny that killed 74 people, including 57 army officials, but the victim families are yet to get final justice and the accused their due punishment, as both the cases filed over the incident have not yet been disposed of due to lengthy legal processes and courts being overburdened with cases.
It has been 10 years since the brutal custodial torture and death of Ishtiaque Hossain Jonny, a garment-waste trader from Dhaka’s Mirpur, and his family is still waiting for ultimate justice.
Sixteen accused have secured bail in a case filed over vandalising the chief justice’s residence on October 28 last year, but in the same case, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is yet to get bail from lower courts or the High Court.
Sultana Jasmine, 41, a land office employee in Naogaon, was picked up and detained by Rapid Action Battalion on March 22 last year. She died in Rab custody at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital two days later. Rab officers told doctors Jasmine had suffered a fall.
Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu, the former BASIC Bank chairman accused in 58 cases of embezzling Tk 2,265 crore, remains at large due to delay in issuing the arrest warrant by the court.
Twenty-six years have passed since the signing of historic CHT Peace Accord took place between Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti and the government on this day in 1997.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday dismissed an appeal filed by Jamaat-e-Islami, challenging a 2013 High Court verdict that declared illegal the party’s registration with the Election Commission.
It has been 48 years since, on this very day in 1975, four national leaders were assassinated at the Dhaka Central Jail.
Eleven years on, victims of the communal attack on the Buddhist community in Ramu of Cox’s Bazar are still waiting for justice.
Newly appointed Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan yesterday said he will work with judges, lawyers and journalists to eradicate corruption and make the judiciary more robust.
