This time, the police have recovered the semi-decomposed body of a woman named Selina Afroz, 55, from a house in the capital's Pallabi area. According to police sources, Selina Afroz had been living alone in a flat in Section-6 of Pallabi for a long time. Upon receiving the information, the police went to the spot and recovered her body.
The Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bangladesh, Stefan Liller, paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Thursday (June 4).
Legal arguments have officially commenced in the case involving the rape and murder of a child, Ramisa, in the capital’s Pallabi area, targeting the prime accused Sohel Rana and his wife Swapna Akhter.
Swapna Akter, a primary accused in the brutal rape and decapitation murder of eight-year-old child Ramisa in Mirpur's Pallabi, fell ill just before the closing arguments were scheduled to begin on Thursday morning. The incident occurred shortly before she was due to be produced before Judge Masrur Salekin of the Dhaka Metropolitan Child Violence Suppression Tribunal.
At least 259 women and girls, including 145 girls and 114 women, suffered various forms of violence and abuse, including rape, in Bangladesh in May, according to an analysis of data by the central legal aid sub-council of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad.
After being in prison for almost 13 months, former Narayanganj City Corporation mayor Selina Hayat Ivy has finally been released on bail.