The High Court has directed the authorities to conduct a survey to determine the actual boundary of Kaptai Lake in Rangamati and submit a list of illegal occupants to the court. The court also ordered that the names and addresses of owners of illegal structures within the lake be included in the report.
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 has set September 3 for the next hearing in the case against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 40 others over alleged crimes against humanity linked to the 2013 Hefazat-e-Islam rally at Dhaka’s Shapla Chattar.
A Dhaka court has ordered Arnob Das, 37, to be sent to jail after he was arrested while attempting to pay tribute to a portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Dhanmondi 32 on Saturday.
The appeals and death references of the two convicts sentenced to death in the case over the rape and brutal murder of seven-year-old Ramisa in Pallabi, Mirpur, have been placed on the High Court's cause list.
A Dhaka court has recorded the testimonies of three more witnesses in the trial for the murder of scrap trader Lal Chand, alias Md. Sohag, in front of Mitford Hospital in Old Dhaka. They gave their depositions in the court of Dhaka 1st Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Alamgir Hossain on Thursday (August 13). Afterward, the defense lawyers cross-examined the witnesses.
State defence lawyer M Hasan Imam has claimed that Obaidul Quader, general secretary of the now-banned Awami League, and two other leaders had no involvement in the shootings, killings or violence during the July mass uprising. He said no evidence has been found of his clients' personal presence at any of the incident sites, from Mirpur in Dhaka to Chandpur, Lakshmipur, Chattogram or Feni.