Tejgaon College marketing student Ratul Hasan testified before International Crimes Tribunal-1 that his left knee was shattered after he was shot during a July protest in Rampura. The 23-year-old gave his statement on Thursday before a two-member tribunal led by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder, with Judge Md Mohitul Haque Enam Chowdhury as the other member.

Hasan said he joined Anti-Discrimination Student Movement programmes from the beginning and became more determined after the deaths of Abu Sayed in Rangpur and Wasim in Chattogram, and attacks on students at Dhaka University. He said police and Border Guard Bangladesh personnel opened fire without warning near Rampura Multicare Hospital after Friday prayers on 19 July.

According to his testimony, a bullet entered below his left knee from behind and exited through the front, causing about one and a half inches of bone loss. He received treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital and later underwent prolonged treatment at Sina Hospital. Hasan said he has not fully recovered and sought justice for those who ordered and carried out the shooting.

A Facebook post by Mohammad Rayhan Alam, described as an associate of alleged top criminal Boro Sazzad, has drawn renewed attention in Chattogram after the recent arrest of Mobarak Hossain, also known as David Emon. In the post made Tuesday, Rayhan said he was not alone despite associates being in jail and suggested that more people linked to “Sazzad bhai” remained abroad. He also wrote that an update would come within a few days.

Rayhan claimed that “hundreds” like him were in Sazzad’s network and said he would establish his identity through actions rather than increasing numbers. He also alleged that groups in Raozan were preparing to attack him, but did not identify them or provide evidence. The claims in his Facebook post could not be independently verified.

District Police Superintendent Masud Alam said police were bringing criminals such as David Emon and Dhama Ilyas under the law and were trying to apprehend Rayhan as well. Police and intelligence officials are examining whether anyone is attempting to assume leadership after arrests of key associates. They say surveillance continues on people still outside who are linked to the group.

Three motorcycles belonging to a journalist and two other people were reported stolen from the garage of Golapbanu Tower, a residential building in West Shewrapara, Mirpur, Dhaka. The theft allegedly occurred between after 11pm on August 16 and 9:30am on August 17. Journalist Shimul Hossain filed a case under Penal Code section 380 at Mirpur Model Police Station on August 20.

The motorcycles were a Yamaha FZ Version 2 owned by Hossain, a Suzuki Monoton 150cc owned by Rifat Alam Farhad, and a Pulsar N-160 owned by Kazi Nesar Ahmed. Their combined estimated market value was about Tk697,000. The complainants said they regularly paid to use the garage and had locked their motorcycles there.

The case alleges that garage guard Md Abdul Mannan was asleep on the night of the theft and has not been seen at work since. It also expresses suspicion of direct or indirect assistance by building owners Nur Alam, Akram and Akbar, while they deny responsibility. Mirpur Model Police Station officer-in-charge Hafizur Rahman said CCTV footage is being reviewed to identify those involved and recover the motorcycles.

A tenth-grade student named Limon, 16, died after drowning in the Punarbhaba River near Dinajpur city. His body was recovered on Thursday afternoon from the river near Ulipur in Dinajpur Sadar upazila. Police detained four of his classmates for questioning in connection with the incident.

Limon, son of Liton Islam of Sipahipara in Dinajpur city, was a student at Tofiyuddin Memorial High School. According to local residents cited by Kotwali police Sub-Inspector Sahadat Hossain, several students entered the river to bathe in Mahutpara on Wednesday afternoon. Limon went missing in the water during the bath.

Fire Service personnel and local people searched for him but could not find him, after which a diving team from Rangpur Fire Service joined the rescue operation. His body surfaced in the river beside Ulipur village at 1pm on Thursday. Kotwali police recovered the body and sent it to Dinajpur Medical College morgue for an autopsy. SI Sahadat Hossain said legal action would be taken.

The International Crimes Tribunal has set August 24 to deliver its verdict on death references, appeals and jail appeals in the murder case of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi. The hearing concluded on August 20 before a High Court bench comprising Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty and Justice K M Rasheduzzaman Raja.

The chief justice formed the specific two-judge High Court bench on June 10 to hear death references, appeals and related matters under the নারী ও শিশু নির্যাতন দমন আইন on a priority basis. The bench began its proceedings on June 14. Senior lawyers S M Shahjahan, Mohammad Tajul Islam and Muhammad Shishir Monir argued for the accused, while Deputy Attorney General Syed Ejaz Kabir and Assistant Attorney General Mosammat Rohani Siddika represented the state.

Court records say Nusrat was allegedly sexually assaulted by then principal Siraj Ud Doula on March 27, 2019. She was set on fire on the madrasa roof on April 6 after refusing to withdraw the case, and died on April 10 while receiving treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital's burn unit. A Feni tribunal sentenced 16 people, including Siraj Ud Doula, to death on October 24, 2019.

A 28-year-old homemaker, Rabeya Begum, died by suicide while speaking with her husband on a mobile video call in Charakhali, Galua Union of Rajapur upazila in Jhalakathi. The incident occurred at about 11am on Thursday, according to the report published on August 20, 2026. Relatives and neighbours took her to Rajapur উপজেলা Health Complex, where the attending doctor declared her dead.

Rabeya’s younger brother, Riazul Islam, said she had married Hridoy, a Malaysia-based expatriate, around a year earlier. He said the couple had first met through Facebook and later married with family approval. At the time of the incident, Rabeya was talking to her husband on a video call, he added.

Rajapur police station Officer-in-Charge Sujan Biswas said police recovered the body and sent it to the Jhalakathi morgue for post-mortem examination. An unnatural death case has been recorded at the police station, according to the officer.

Imu Akter, 20, a mother of a six-month-old child, died in a CNG-related road accident in Tangail’s Sakhipur on Thursday afternoon. The crash occurred in the Sholapratima area on the Sakhipur-Gorai road, according to the report. She was travelling from Nalua toward Sakhipur in a CNG vehicle when the incident happened.

Eyewitnesses said the CNG had reached the northern side of Boali Bazar when Akter put her head outside the vehicle to spit. A speeding truck approaching from the opposite direction struck her, and she died at the scene. Akter was the daughter of rural medical practitioner Ilim Uddin of Ratanpur village in the upazila.

Sakhipur police station Officer-in-Charge Md Murad Hossain said the victim’s family took the body home after the accident. He said police had been sent to bring the body to the police station. Legal procedures would be completed after the body arrived at the station.

The Parbatya Chattogram Nagorik Parishad held a protest and human chain in Bandarban on Thursday morning, demanding an end to alleged extortion, abductions, disappearances and indiscriminate killings by active armed groups in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The group also called for overall law and order and public security in the hill region to be ensured. The programme was held in front of Bandarban Press Club.

Kazi Mujibur Rahman, chairman of the organisation's central committee, attended as chief guest. He said residents of the Chittagong Hill Tracts had long faced various forms of harassment, extortion and insecurity. According to him, extortion and terrorist activities by armed groups were disrupting the normal lives of people in the hills.

Rahman called for effective steps to stop such activities quickly and ensure the safety of people and their property. He also said the constitutional and legitimate rights of all hill residents must be guaranteed, and law enforcement agencies should take a stricter and more effective role against armed terrorist activities. District president Maulana Abul Kalam Azad chaired the gathering, attended by several local and central leaders.

Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) in Kishoreganj says it has solved the killing of 65-year-old Mosa Halima in Karimganj more than three and a half years after the crime. PBI arrested Halima’s daughter, Champa, 48, who was also the complainant in the murder case. Additional Superintendent of Police Abdullah Al Masud disclosed the findings at a news conference on Thursday. PBI said Champa gave a confessional statement before a court under Section 164 on August 18.

Halima was found dead in a fallow plot about 300 yards from her home in Sindripur village on the morning of March 14, 2023. Her head was buried in soil, with bloody injuries to her nose and mouth and a white rope around her neck. Champa had filed a case naming five people, including neighbour Billal, and four or five unidentified suspects.

PBI alleges Champa planned the killing with associates to retaliate over a land dispute and frame opponents in the murder case to obtain homestead land. Investigators said Halima had claimed to have bought three and a half decimals of land around 30 years earlier, but had no deed. The investigation remains under way to present evidence against all those involved.

A Chittagong divisional special court sentenced a father and son from Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar, over allegations of acquiring illicit assets, concealing asset information and attempting to legalise unlawful wealth through collusion. On Thursday, Judge Mizanur Rahman sentenced Mohammad Abdullah to four years in prison and his father, Abul Bashar, to three years. The court delivered the verdict within seven working days.

According to Anti-Corruption Commission prosecutor Mokarram Hossain, Abdullah was also fined Tk84 lakh 45 thousand 858 for illicit asset acquisition and concealing asset information. The ACC had issued him a notice on April 27, 2019, requiring an asset statement, but he did not submit one within the stipulated period or seek an extension.

The ACC inquiry found assets worth Tk1 crore 10 lakh 23 thousand 65 in Abdullah’s name, against a stated lawful income source of Tk10 lakh. Investigators found Tk1 crore 23 thousand 65 to be inconsistent with known income. Abul Bashar bought land for Tk20 lakh and gifted it to Abdullah within three months. Neither convict was present for the verdict, and arrest warrants were issued.

A Jhenaidah court sentenced Al-Amin Patowari to death and his father, Yunuch Ali Patowari, to life imprisonment for the murder of farmer Nayeb Ali in Maliat village of Kaliganj. District and Sessions Judge Masud Ali delivered the verdict on Thursday afternoon. Al-Amin was fined Tk50,000 and Yunuch Ali, 56, was fined Tk20.

According to state prosecutor Akidul Islam, Nayeb Ali was beaten to death on May 28, 2025, following a dispute over land. The victim’s son, Billal Hossain, filed a case at Kaliganj police station, naming three people and accusing an additional two or three unidentified individuals.

Police submitted a charge sheet against Yunuch Ali and Al-Amin on August 18, 2025. After hearing evidence and arguments from both sides over seven working days, the court issued the sentences. The victim’s family demanded the swift implementation of the verdict, while prosecutor Akidul Islam said the prosecution was satisfied with the ruling.

Advocate Faridul Alam, the third prosecution witness, testified as an eyewitness in the murder case of lawyer Saiful Islam Alif at the Chattogram Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal on Thursday. Judge Fazle Khoda Mohammad Nazir recorded his statement, after which lawyers for present and absconding accused cross-examined him. The court rejected two separate petitions filed for accused Chinmoy Krishna Das: one seeking bail and another seeking time to cross-examine the third witness.

Chinmoy Krishna Das appeared before the tribunal virtually, while other accused were brought from prison under tight police security. The prosecution also produced another witness, but testimony could not be taken because of limited time, and a further date was set. ISKCON supporters were seen outside the court during the hearing.

Prosecution lawyer Md Rayhanul Wazed Chowdhury said repeated requests for time by the defence had delayed cross-examination of the first and second witnesses. The case stems from the killing of Alif during clashes near the Chattogram court building on November 26, 2024. Charges were filed against 39 people; 27 are jailed and 12 remain absconding.

A Jamalpur court on Thursday sentenced seven people to death and seven others to life imprisonment in the murder case of an uncle and his nephew in Madarganj. Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Nezam Uddin delivered the verdict at the Jamalpur District and Sessions Judge Court. Each death-row convict was fined Tk50,000, while each person given life imprisonment was fined Tk20,000.

According to state prosecutor Mohammad Didarul Islam, Shakhawat and Sohel called Maher Ali and his nephew Swapan Mia from their home on the night of May 16, 2016, saying there would be music. The two were then taken to a jute field belonging to Bhanu Fakir in Kukurmari, Jorkhali ইউনিয়ন of Madarganj, where they were hacked and slaughtered to death.

Police recovered the mutilated bodies from the jute field three days later. Swapan's father, Jahangir Alam, filed a murder case at Madarganj Model Police Station on May 19, 2016, naming 22 accused. After a lengthy investigation, police submitted charges against 14 people. The court announced the verdict in the presence of the accused after hearing testimony from 18 witnesses.

A Gopalganj family appellate court on Wednesday upheld a six-month rigorous imprisonment term and Tk5,000 fine against former Baitul Mukarram khatib Mufti Ruhul Amin in a dispute over ancestral property. Judge Shahnaz Nasrin Khan dismissed Amin’s appeal and ordered him to surrender before the lower court. The court also rejected the complainant’s appeal seeking a longer sentence.

The case was filed on January 9, 2024, by Fatema Begum, the wife of Amin’s late elder brother, Hafez Maulana Omar Ahmed. She alleged that although each brother held a 17-percent share of a 34-percent plot in Sriramkandi mouza, Amin forcibly occupied the entire land, built a wall, threatened family members and issued a death threat against her.

Judicial Magistrate Muhammad Ali Talha convicted Amin on October 5, 2025, sentencing him to six months of rigorous imprisonment and imposing the fine. The ruling said he would face an additional month in jail if the fine was not paid. The appellate decision leaves the lower court’s sentence unchanged, while the complainant said her side was awaiting implementation of the verdict.

Prosecutors on Thursday sought formal charges and the start of trial against nine accused in a crimes against humanity case over the killing of three protesters during the July uprising in Gauripur, Mymensingh. The application was made before International Crimes Tribunal-1, led by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder, on August 20, 2026.

Prosecutor Marzina Raihan Madina alleged that former Gauripur upazila chairman and Awami League general secretary Somnath Saha, along with former officer-in-charge Sumon Chandra Ray, jointly decided to use lethal weapons against unarmed participants in the anti-discrimination movement. She said their subordinates and associates acted with law enforcement personnel and armed Awami League cadres.

The prosecution alleged that three people were shot dead and numerous students and members of the public were seriously injured using pistols and China rifles. Two videos recorded during the incident were shown to the tribunal, and the prosecution said one showed SI Shafiqul Islam firing directly at close range. The tribunal set September 8 for the defence hearing. Three of the nine accused are detained, while six are absconding.