A total of 16,63,620 people across the country have received free, government-funded legal assistance. The programme is meant for those who cannot afford to hire a lawyer or access legal services because of financial hardship. Services have been delivered through courts, district offices, labour support centres and various digital channels.
Abdul Hye, a veteran politician from Munshiganj, former adviser to ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, former deputy minister and Bir Muktijoddha (valiant freedom fighter), has died. He breathed his last at his home in Dhaka at around 12:30am, in the night following Wednesday (October 15). He was 80 years old.
Hasanul Haq Inu, president of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) and a former information minister, has appealed his 10-year prison sentence in a crimes against humanity case linked to the suppression of the July mass uprising, seeking acquittal.
The government of Bangladesh has strongly condemned the incident of harassment of former Chief Adviser of the interim government Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus at John F Kennedy Airport in New York. At the same time the demand of taking legal measures against those involved in the incident has been made.
The court has sentenced eight persons including former chairman of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) Iqbal Uddin Chowdhury to 14 years of rigorous imprisonment each in the case of corruption in plot allocation in Purbachal Residential Project of the organisation. At the same time each of the accused has been fined 20 lakh taka.
Former Narayanganj City Corporation mayor Selina Hayat Ivy has been granted bail in a murder case over the killing of Tuhin in Siddhirganj, Narayanganj.