A sabotage case filed at Bishwanath Police Station in Sylhet has named BNP, Jamaat and Islami Chhatra Shibir activists alongside members of the banned Awami League. The complaint, filed on Friday by Alankari Union BNP vice-president Md Irun Mia, names 92 people and lists another 60 to 70 unidentified accused.

The case alleges that on the evening of August 16, the accused set fire to vehicle tyres on the Bishwanath-Lamakazi paved road in Rampasha Union, obstructed traffic and chanted anti-state slogans. It also alleges arson and vandalism at important government offices, causing damage and creating an unstable environment. Named defendants include BNP ward publicity secretary Ekhlas Mia, Shibir ward president Roni Mia and Jamaat worker Renu Mia.

Ekhlas said his inclusion was retaliatory and linked to a land dispute with a neighbour. Jamaat’s Bishwanath chief Nizam Uddin Siddiqui called the inclusion of his party workers planned, while police chief Gazi Md Mahbubur Rahman said the case is under investigation. BNP’s local president Mohammad Gauch Ali said the party was examining the matter and that the issue could stem from a misunderstanding.

Police recovered four foreign pistols, three magazines and 12 rounds of ammunition from a flat in the Swamibagh Karatitola area of Gendaria in the capital and detained six people. The information was disclosed by Dhaka Metropolitan Police Joint Commissioner for Crime Md Faruk Hossain at a press conference at the DMP Media Centre on Monday.

According to police, Jatrabari police set up a checkpoint near the Mukti Petrol Pump at the Matuail U-turn after receiving information that illegal drugs were being brought to Dhaka from Chattogram in a private car. Officers stopped a white private car, registered Dhaka Metro-G-31-3646, and detained five occupants, but found no drugs during searches of the vehicle and the individuals.

Questioning later led police to the Gendaria flat, where the weapons were found in a plastic bag under a bed, police said. A private car and six smartphones were also seized. Police identified detainee Sajib as the younger brother of Sajal, also known as Auto Sajal, whom police described as a leading criminal and arms-and-drug dealer in the Wari division. Police cited earlier weapons and drug cases involving Sajal.

Two suspects arrested over the killings of four members of a family in Rangpur city gave confessional statements before a court, police said. Mugdha Das, 23, and Siddhartha Das, 19, were produced before the Rangpur Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court at about 5pm on Sunday. Judge Md Rafiqul Islam recorded their statements under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and ordered that they be sent to jail.

Investigating officer Milon Chatterjee said the two suspects admitted their involvement in the killings, eliminating the need for further remand. Both are residents of the area around the victims’ home and are related to each other. Police recovered the bodies of retired Rangpur Zilla School teacher Ganapati Chakraborty, his wife Pritilata Chakraborty, their school-age son and postgraduate student daughter from their home in Kamal Kachna Machhuapara on Saturday night.

Police said the suspects were detained from the Machhuapara area early Sunday. At a news conference, Rangpur Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mohammad Abdul Mabud described an alleged sequence of events involving the suspects entering the home’s roof via a neighbouring building. The investigation officer said the defendants described the alleged killings in their court statements.

Bangladesh’s High Court on Monday ordered the removal of judicial powers from Mamunur Rashid, the then judge of Feni’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal, over his handling of the widely discussed Nusrat murder case. The bench of Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty and Justice KM Rasheduzzaman Raja also directed that he be attached to the Law Ministry.

The court said the trial court had imposed death sentences indiscriminately, causing a devastating effect on each family. After hearing death references, appeals and jail appeals, the High Court upheld death sentences for former Sonagazi Islamia Fazil Degree Madrasa principal Siraj Ud Daula and Shahadat Hossain Shamim.

Four accused—Umme Sultana Popy, Mohammad Nuruddin, Shahadat Hossain Javed and Iftekhar Hossain Rana—received life imprisonment. The High Court acquitted 10 accused, including Mohammad Shamim, Ruhul Amin, Afsar Uddin, Maksud Councillor, Hafez Abdul Kader, Abdur Rahim Sharif, Imran Hossain Mamun, Mohiuddin Shakil and Kamrun Nahar Moni. Senior lawyers represented the accused, while Attorney General Barrister Ruhul Quddus Kajal and Deputy Attorney General Syed Ejaj Kabir appeared for the state.

Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal-2 ordered journalists Shyamal Dutta, Mozammel Babu and Farzana Rupa to be shown arrested and sent to jail in a new crimes against humanity case. The order was issued Monday afternoon by a three-member judicial panel led by Justice Nazrul Islam Chowdhury over alleged provocative remarks in media programmes during the July 2024 uprising.

Prosecutor Moinul Karim told the tribunal that the three journalists made provocative statements in televised talk shows or other media programmes during the uprising. He said the investigation agency had found their involvement while investigating the crimes against humanity case and sought their formal arrest in the matter.

After the hearing, the tribunal granted the prosecution’s application and ordered their detention. It set October 25 for submission of the investigation report. The tribunal had taken cognisance of allegations against the three on August 17 and directed their appearance on Monday, when they were brought from prison. Babu and Rupa are already jailed in the Shapla Chattar massacre case, while Dutta is jailed in a case over killings during the July uprising.

A fish trader, Md Aminul Islam, 35, was hacked and robbed of cash and a mobile phone in the Boro Madrasa area behind the Jatrabari fish market in Dhaka on Monday at about 7am. The attackers fled after taking his belongings. Aminul was rescued and taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where he was receiving treatment in the emergency department.

Inspector Md Faruk, in-charge of the hospital police outpost, confirmed that Aminul was under treatment in the emergency department. A colleague, Nannu Mia, said Aminul was on his way to buy fish when two or three muggers blocked his path and attacked him with sharp weapons.

According to Nannu Mia, Aminul had about Tk28,000 to Tk30,000 with him when the robbery occurred. He sustained injuries to different parts of his body in the attack, and colleagues took him to hospital after being informed. Aminul, a fish seller and tenant at Kutub Uddin's house in the area, is the son of Robi Bepari of Enayetpur upazila in Sirajganj.

New Chattogram Civil Surgeon Sazedur Rahman was involved in a highway collision while travelling from Cumilla to Chattogram on Monday, his first working day in the district. The crash occurred at about 9am near Kumira Royal Gate in Sitakunda on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway. His wife, Dr Lubna, was injured and admitted to a private hospital in Chattogram.

Police and local sources said the ambulance carrying the couple collided with a No. 8 minibus travelling from Alankar toward Sitakunda near the Kumira U-turn. The ambulance’s glass broke in the collision, injuring Dr Lubna. Rahman left his wife at the hospital and then went to his new workplace to assume his duties.

Baro Awlia Highway Police seized the No. 8 minibus, and Sergeant Zakirul Islam said authorities would investigate the incident and take necessary legal action. Transport leader Mohammad Khurshid Alam alleged that unfit vehicles operate on the highway without route permits or driver licences. Sitakunda UNO Fakhrul Islam said action would be taken quickly if the vehicles lack valid route permits.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police said it arrested 440 people during operations across the capital over a 24-hour period and filed 46 cases at different police stations. The operations ran from 12am on Saturday night to 12am on Sunday night, according to a DMP press release issued on Monday, August 24, 2026.

The largest number of arrests was reported in the Mirpur division, with 127 people detained. Tejgaon recorded 67 arrests, while Wari and Uttara each recorded 50. Lalbagh reported 45 arrests, Motijheel 36, Gulshan 31, Ramna 29, and the Detective Branch five.

Police said the operations recovered a foreign pistol, a magazine, six rounds of ammunition, a sword, a knife and a grenade. They also seized a motorcycle, nine mobile phones, 12 kilograms and 500 grams of cannabis, 39,127 yaba tablets, 3.2 grams of powdered yaba and 3,000 stolen taka. The DMP said two victims were rescued during the operation.

Bangladesh’s High Court upheld death sentences for two of 16 defendants in the murder case of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi, while sentencing four others to life imprisonment and acquitting 10. The verdict was announced at about 1pm on Thursday by a bench of Justice Bhishmadev Chakraborty and Justice KM Rasheduzzaman Raja. The two condemned defendants are former Sonagazi Islamia Fazil Madrasa principal Siraj-ud-Doula and Shahadat Hossain Shamim.

Those given life terms are Umme Sultana Poppy alias Tuhin, madrasa student Nur Uddin, Javed Hossain alias Sakhawat Hossain Javed, and Saifur Rahman Mohammad Zubayer. Police strengthened security at Nusrat’s family home in North Charchandia, Sonagazi municipality, following the verdict. Her mother, Shirin Akhtar, said the family remained concerned about security and sought government help in ensuring justice and protecting the family.

A Feni tribunal sentenced all 16 accused to death on October 24, 2019, also imposing fines of Tk100,000 on each. Nusrat died on April 10, 2019, after being set on fire on a cyclone shelter roof at her madrasa on April 6, according to the case account. The High Court received the death reference records on October 29, 2019, alongside jail and criminal appeals filed by the defendants.

Human Rights Support Society (HRSS) has demanded that missing fisherman Miraj Sheikh of Joymoni in Mongla, Bagerhat, be located alive and in good health and produced before the court under a High Court order. HRSS made the demand at a Monday press conference at the National Press Club in Dhaka, jointly organised with the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust and Miraj’s family.

Miraj, 30, fishes in the Sundarbans and also drives a rented motorcycle. He has been missing since April 10, when several people identifying themselves as Coast Guard members allegedly forcibly took him away. His wife, Mukta Khatun, said plainclothes personnel put him on a boat before a speedboat bearing Bangladesh Coast Guard markings arrived with uniformed members.

HRSS said the High Court on July 12 ordered Miraj’s production within 15 working days, but he remains untraced while Coast Guard authorities have denied detaining him. The group called for an independent investigation, accountability for those responsible, security for the family and witnesses, and action under existing law if allegations exist against Miraj. HRSS said it is trying to preserve digital evidence and will seek to speak with the Coast Guard.

Two brothers and members of their families fought over inherited land while their father’s body remained at their home in Sannyasgacha village of Keshabpur, Jashore, on Monday afternoon. The dispute left the two brothers and their wives injured, and all four were admitted to Keshabpur উপজেলা Health Complex.

Family sources said Abdul Khaleq, 75, died of old age on Monday morning. Before his burial, his sons Mahbubur Rahman, 52, and Achhabur, 45, became involved in an argument over the division of land left by their father. The confrontation escalated into a clash involving machetes and bamboo sticks.

Local residents and relatives intervened to settle the dispute, after which the situation calmed down. With assistance from people in the neighborhood, Khaleq was buried in the family graveyard. Keshabpur police station officer-in-charge Reksona Khatun said police went to the scene after receiving reports of the fight and later found the situation under control. A video of the incident circulated on social media.

Police arrested Pallabi police station Assistant Sub-Inspector Md Shafiqul Islam, 43, and Wasim, 24, on allegations of drug dealing after recovering 5,310 yaba pills in raids in Uttara’s Azampur Kacha Bazar and Bismillah Palli areas. Southkhankhan police said the arrests were made on Sunday night, while the information was disclosed on Monday, August 24.

Acting on a tip-off about yaba sales, police searched Wasim as he tried to flee from Azampur Kacha Bazar and found 50 pills. Based on his information, officers raided a rented residence and arrested Shafiqul with 200 pills. A subsequent raid at a flat in Noor Building, house number 67, Bismillah Palli, recovered another 5,110 pills.

A case under the Narcotics Control Act was filed at Southkhankhan police station on Monday, naming the two detainees and two or three unidentified people. The court ordered the two men sent to jail. The case statement says they initially admitted bringing yaba from different parts of the country for sale in Southkhankhan and nearby areas. Pallabi police said Shafiqul had been serving there irregularly.

Police in the Jorarganj police station area of Mirsarai upazila, Chattogram, conducted anti-drug operations on Sunday and Monday and detained four drug users. A mobile court sentenced them in four cases to prison terms ranging from three days to one month. The court was led by Mirsarai Assistant Commissioner (Land) Tanvirul Kader.

Separately, police arrested two men, Mosharraf, 42, and Hasan, 34, in a criminal case. They were detained at 1:45am on Monday from the area beside the rail gate at Baraiyarhat Bazar. Police also arrested Md Ismail Hossain, 23, an accused wanted in a case under the নারী ও শিশু নির্যাতন দমন আইন.

Ismail Hossain was arrested from his home in the Geramara area of Jorarganj on the same night. Jorarganj police station Officer-in-Charge Abdul Halim said legal action had been taken against the arrested people and they were sent to jail through the court.

Bangladesh’s High Court is scheduled to deliver its verdict on Tuesday, August 25, on the death reference and appeal involving Hitu Sheikh in the rape and murder case of an eight-year-old child from Magura. A bench comprising Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty and Justice K M Rasheduzzaman Raja fixed the date after concluding the hearing on Monday, August 24.

The hearing began on August 11 and was conducted on a priority basis. State-appointed lawyer Hafizur Rahman Khan argued for death-row convict Hitu Sheikh, while Deputy Attorney General Imam Hossain Tarek represented the state. Assistant Attorneys General Rohani Siddika and Mahbuba Tasnim Ankhi were also involved in the state’s hearing.

The Magura Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal sentenced Hitu Sheikh to death on May 17, 2025, while acquitting three other accused. The child was assaulted in early March 2025 in Nijnanduali village and died during treatment on March 13. The case is being heard by a special High Court bench formed for priority hearings of death references and appeals under the women and children repression law.

Witness Sakib Ahmed Tulon told Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday that former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former food minister Kamrul Islam and Workers Party president Rashed Khan Menon were responsible for the deaths of 23 people in the Rampura and Badda areas during the July uprising. He made the claim while testifying in a case against Kamrul and Menon over the killings in Rampura. It was the second day of his testimony, following his first appearance on June 23.

Tulon said he was stopped by police, the army and Border Guard Bangladesh at Rampura Bridge on August 3, 2024, while trying to join a Shahid Minar programme. On August 4, he said protesters gathered near BRAC University and headed toward Shahbagh, where he saw police and activists of Awami League, Jubo League and Chhatra League throwing cocktails and bricks. He said an unidentified boy beside him was shot in the right shoulder.

He said police fired indiscriminately near Badda police station on August 5 and that he heard one local person was shot in the head. Tulon said he later learned through media reports about a meeting on the July 19 curfew and sought exemplary punishment for those he said ordered or advised the violence.