The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) filed over 1.22 lakh drug-related cases in a little over five years, but only 11 percent of those have been disposed of.
Md Selim, a grocer from Beltoli Bazar in Mymensingh’s Phulbaria, has been listed as dead in a murder case filed over last year’s July uprising.
Several recent mugging incidents, some taking place in broad daylight, have also rattled residents
Police have arrested over 48,400 people across the country over the last one month, according to data from the Police Headquarters.
Three individuals named as witnesses in the case filed over the killing of Mahfuz Alam Shraban during last year’s mass uprising said they were unaware of being listed as witnesses.
Police have arrested more than 12,700 people across the country over the past eight days.
Over the years, the authorities spent over Tk 119 crore on modernising the equipment, but Dhaka traffic is mostly managed manually.
Highway Police officials cited insufficient manpower, inadequate logistics support, and the absence of a modern, technology-driven policing system as key factors behind the unit's struggles.
Police officials yesterday demanded that the government authorise the Police Headquarters to investigate the SP-level officers and determine their transfers and promotions instead of the home ministry.
On a chilly winter night, 18-year-old Sonia Begum from Bhola’s Lalmohan upazila was sitting by a fire in order to warm her body. Suddenly, the edge of her dress caught fire.
Jahirul Islam works as a nightguard at a Karwan Bazar building. A sweater, which he brought several years ago, was all he had to protect himself from the bone-chilling winter cold.
Police submitted two contradictory probe reports before a Dhaka court in a case filed over the “confiscation” of fake bank notes from a hotel in Paltan in 2016.
US sanctions on the Rapid Action Battalion “worked like a tonic”, rights activists said yesterday as the number of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances dropped significantly in the last year.
The books he used to read, the shirts he used to wear, the bed he used to sleep in and the prizes he won are constant reminders of Fardin.
Failing to get any evidence of murder during the month-long investigation, Detective Brach of police is now also looking into whether Buet student Fardin Noor Parash was killed in an accident, or whether he committed suicide.
Law enforcers have started special drives against snatchers amid a rise in mugging incidents in the capital recently.
He was a local correspondent for a national newspaper, in addition to working for a local newspaper during his student days. In 2003, the man opened an organisation called “Janata Multipurpose Cooperative Society” at his area in Kushtia.
Complaints about police’s involvement in various crimes continue to pile up thanks to lenient disciplinary measures that embolden errant cops, say criminologists and legal experts.
