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CJ hopes Justice Manik will return files of pending verdicts
Former Supreme Court Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik sends a letter requesting the chief justice to accept all the judgments and orders he wrote after his retirement.
7 February 2016
End Ekram murder trial by 6 months: SC
Supreme Court directs a trial court to finish by 6 months the trial proceedings of the murder case of Phulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque.
4 February 2016
War trial: Hearing on Mir Quasem plea deferred
The Supreme Court defers for a week the hearing on the appeal filed by war criminal Mir Quasem Ali challenging his death penalty.
2 February 2016
Mir Quasem’s appeal hearing begins tomorrow
The Supreme Court will start hearing tomorrow on an appeal challenging death penalty of war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali for his crimes against humanity.
1 February 2016
SC upholds injunction on Kalyanpur slum eviction
The Supreme Court has upheld a High Court order that issued an injunction on eviction of the Kalyanpur Pora Slum.
31 January 2016
HC’s online cause list from Feb 16
The system of printed cause list, a roll of cases to be heard by the High Court on a day, is to run run till February 15.
28 January 2016
Allow review plea of Farmers Bank, SC asks BB
The Supreme Court directs Bangladesh Bank to allow Farmers Bank to seek review of the central bank’s order that fined the bank Tk 10 lakh for concealing information.
28 January 2016
Court summons Khaleda on Mar 3 following sedition suit
A Dhaka court summons BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on March 3 over a sedition suit filed by a Supreme Court lawyer for her statement regarding the number of martyrs in Bangladesh's 1971 Liberation War.
25 January 2016
SC to hold hearing on case filing
A full bench of the Supreme Court may decide on Monday whether the written complaint by Bangladesh Bank official Golam Rabby would be recorded as a case against the police personnel who allegedly tortured him.
21 January 2016
SC stays case filing against torturer cop Masud
Supreme Court stays a High Court order that directed police to file a case over cop torture on Bangladesh Bank official Golam Rabby. Chamber judge ordered the stay until January 25 and sent it for a full bench hearing.
21 January 2016
SCBA seeks caretaker restoration, terming its scrapping illegal
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) demands restoration of the caretaker government system saying the judgement, which scrapped the provision, has no constitutional basis as it was written by a retired judge.
20 January 2016
No extension on freedom fighters’ retirement age
The Cabinet turns down a proposal of the Liberation War Affairs Ministry to raise the retirement age limit of freedom fighter public servants to 65 years from the existing 60 years.
18 January 2016
Sayedee files review plea, seeks acquittal
Convicted war criminal Delawar Hossain Sayedee yesterday filed a petition seeking review of the Supreme Court verdict that commuted his death sentence to imprisonment until death.
17 January 2016
University teachers’ strike challenged
A Supreme Court lawyer has challenged the legality of the ongoing strike enforced by teachers of public universities across the country demanding the removal of “discrimination in salaries”.
17 January 2016
Writ seeks arrest of cop Masud, judicial probe
A writ petition was filed with the High Court today seeking the arrest of suspended policeman Masud Shikder and a judicial probe over the torture of a Bangladesh Bank official.
17 January 2016
War crimes: Sayedee files review against SC verdict
Convicted war criminal Delawar Hossain Sayedee files a review plea against Supreme Court verdict that gave him jail until death for war crimes.
17 January 2016
SC scraps acquittal of Ariful Chy
The Supreme Court yesterday scrapped a High Court verdict that had acquitted Ariful Haque Chowdhury, former mayor of Sylhet City Corporation, in a corruption case.
14 January 2016
SC scraps Sylhet mayor Ariful’s acquittal
The Supreme Court scrapes a High Court verdict that acquitted suspended mayor of Sylhet City Corporation Ariful Haque Chowdhury in a corruption case.
14 January 2016
Sayedee now to appeal for acquittal
War criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee is going to file a petition with the Supreme Court seeking review of its verdict that commuted his death penalty to jail unto death.
13 January 2016
Govt seeks SC review
The government yesterday filed a review petition with the Supreme Court seeking death penalty for Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee for the war crimes he committed during the Liberation War.
12 January 2016