Detained former State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar of BNP was Friday sent to jail after 12-day interrogation on remand thrice over the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally.
BNP Joint Secretary General Gayeswar Chandra Roy was released from Dhaka Central Jail on bail on Tuesday. He walked out of the jail at about 11:00am. Earlier on Sunday, the High Court granted ad interim bail to Gayeswar in a corruption case filed by the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC).
Rid Pharmaceuticals Limited managing director Mizanur Rahman was sent to jail on Monday in a case filed by the drug authorities after the company’s toxic paracetamol syrup caused child deaths. Dhaka metropolitan sessions judge ANM Bashir Ullah rejected his bail petition filed on October 12, the day he surrendered in the court.
A Dhaka court yesterday sent BNP joint secretary general Gayeshwar Chandra Roy to jail in connection with a corruption case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) against him. Judge ANM Bashir Ullah of the Metropolitan Session Judge's Court passed the order after hearing both sides on a petition filed by the BNP leader after surrendering before the court yesterday.
A Khagrachhari court today sent 51 members of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) to jail rejecting their bail petitions. Khagrachhari District and Session Judge Mohammad Mokhter Ahmed passed the order after they were produced before the court. The court fixed November 11 for the next hearing of the case, our Khagrachhari correspondent reports.
Former telecommunications minister Aminul Haque was released from jail on Tuesday, after the Appellate Division upheld the BNP leader's bail in six cases. Superintendent of Rajshahi Central Jail Tipu Sultan said Aminul was released after a faxed order came from Dhaka. Rajshahi City BNP leaders and workers, and his lawyers crowded at the jail gate to greet him on his release.
A Dhaka court yesterday sent Farukh Aziz, Superintending Engineer of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC), to jail in connection with a case filed against him on charge of threatening his chief engineer by brandishing firearms. After producing him before the court yesterday afternoon, the judge SK Tofail Hassan of the Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka passed the order.
Detective police sought a court order to give them 10 days to grill Amanullah Aman, a former state minister in the BNP-Jamaat government, whom they arrested at Dhaka airport in connection with an attempt-to-murder case Tuesday.
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W Bush says he was tortured with beatings, whippings and electric shocks during his first few days in custody. Muntadhar al-Zeidi was freed Tuesday after nine months in prison for his stunning act of protest last December.
Joynal Hazari, a former Awami League MP, was today set free from Feni jail following the High Court granted bail in an arms case in which was awarded life imprisonment six years ago. Once a dreaded godfather of terrorists' and expelled from Awami League, Joynal Hazari was set free at about 11 am.
