Habiganj

'Terror financier' held in Habiganj

The Criminal Investigation Department yesterday claimed to have arrested a "terror financier" at Habiganj.
8 August 2017

3 get death for killing 4 kids

A Sylhet court yesterday sentenced three people to death in a case filed over the killing of four schoolboys in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj in February last year.
26 July 2017

Madhabpur tea workers starving, unpaid for 13 weeks

Workers of a tea garden in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj are left starving as they are not getting paid their wages or receiving their rations for the last 13 weeks.
2 August 2016

3 brothers convicted

The war crimes tribunal yesterday convicted three brothers from Habiganj of crimes against humanity and handed down death penalty to one of them and jail until death to the others.
1 June 2016

War crimes: Death for Habiganj man, jail for his 2 brothers

A special tribunal has found three brothers from Habiganj guilty of all the four charges brought against them and handed one death for war crimes. Two of his brothers have been given jail till death.
1 June 2016

ICT reading out summary verdict on 3 Habiganj ‘war criminals’

A tribunal in Dhaka starts reading out the summary verdict in a case filed against three war criminal suspects from Habiganj on charges of crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War.
1 June 2016

War crimes: Arrest warrants issued for 2 men

A war crimes tribunal issues arrest warrants against two men, including a former leader of Habiganj chapter Awami League, over crimes committed during the Liberation War in 1971.
18 May 2016

2 killed as pick-up van hits truck in Habiganj

Two people are killed when a pick-up van hit a stationary truck from behind at a filling station in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj today.
18 May 2016

War crimes: Verdict on 3 Habiganj men any day

A tribunal in Dhaka will deliver its verdict any day in the case against three Habiganj men who are facing four charges of crimes against humanity they allegedly committed during the 1971 Liberation War.
11 May 2016

Charges pressed against 2 ‘war criminals’

The prosecution presses seven specific charges against two men including a former leader of Habiganj Awami League for their alleged involved in crimes committed during the Liberation War in 1971.
3 May 2016

Lightning kills 3 in Habiganj

Three people, including a local Jubo League leader, are killed in separate incidents of lightning strike during storm in Sadar and Lakhai upazilas in Habiganj.
16 April 2016

9 charged with killing 4 kids in Habiganj

Police press charges against nine persons including the prime accused in a case filed for killing four schoolboys in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj.
5 April 2016

Jubo Sanghati activist found dead in Habiganj

An activist of Jubo Sanghati, the youth wing of Jatiya Party, was found dead in Habiganj.
28 February 2016

6 workers burnt in Habiganj factory fire

Six workers of a factory are burnt in a fire triggered by a gas cylinder explosion in Sadar upazila of Habiganj.
28 February 2016

Accused killed in 'gunfight'

An accused in the Habiganj four-kid murder case was killed in a "gunfight" with the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in the district's Chunarughat upazila early yesterday, eight days after law enforcers allegedly picked him up. The dead, Bachchu Mia, was a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver who had been traceless since being “detained by plainclothes officials” on February 17, according to his family members.
25 February 2016

4-kid murder: Body formed to see cop’s negligence

A Habiganj court places two accused on remand each over the murder of four children in Habiganj’s Bahubol upazila.
22 February 2016

More than 7 involved

More than seven people were involved in the killing of the four children at Sundartiki of Bahubal in Habiganj, said accused Jewel Mia in his confessional statement before a magistrate yesterday.
21 February 2016

Another held over Habiganj 4-kid murder

Police arrest another person for his alleged link to the killing of four schoolboys, who had gone missing from Sundrateki village in Bahubal upazila on February 12.
20 February 2016

Killers of 4 Habiganj kids to be tried at special tribunal: Minister

The trial of those accused in the killing of four kids in Habiganj two days ago will be held at the special tribunal, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki says.
19 February 2016

All they want is justice

Minara Begum could hardly speak to anyone since villagers dug her son's body out of a sand pile on Wednesday. Shell-shocked, she just shed tears silently, holding the boy's clothes tight.
18 February 2016