The court decided that their customers’ working relationship should qualify as an employment contract, meaning that Uber must reimburse professional expenses such as the purchase of a car, fuel and overtime. Uber said it would appeal, adding: “We are determined to make progress on the platform workers’ rights issue and are confident that the right […]
A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred till February 14 the submission of the investigation report in a case filed in connection with the death of BUET student Fardeen Noor Parash, UNB reported. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shanta Islam Mallick fixed the new date as the investigating officer of the case failed to submit the report today. […]
Catalonia’s Supreme Court said on Tuesday that former Barcelona and Brazil defender Dani Alves is under investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in a Spanish nightclub last month. Alves denies any wrongdoing. A Barcelona court said in a statement that it had “opened proceedings for an alleged crime of sexual assault as a result […]
Let us go back to the case against Mirza Fakhrul, for example. Nearly 100 cases have been registered against him in the last decade. He remained in jail for more than 300 days and got bail in many cases. There is also no allegation by the government against him of trying to abscond after getting […]
Dhaka Cyber Tribunal Judge AM Zulfikar Hayat granted him bail pending the submission of the police report, the tribunal’s prosecutor said. Meanwhile, the date of January 12 has been fixed for submitting the inquiry report in the matter. In the same case, Babul was arrested on November 10 last year and shown on one-day remand […]
The date of submission of the investigation report was postponed for the 61st time.
A court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old former Nazi camp secretary of complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people in what could be Germany’s last Holocaust trial. Presiding Judge Dominik Gross handed down a two-year suspended sentence to Irmgard Furchner for her role in what prosecutors called the “brutal and malicious murder” of […]
Masood Ahmed Talukdar, the lawyer for the two BNP leaders, confirmed this information to Prothom Alo. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Mirza Abbas were brought to the court after hours of questioning at the Detective Branch (DB) office around 4:10 pm on Friday. Meanwhile, pro-BNP lawyers took positions in the court premises and started raising […]
Apart from this, 23 leaders and workers were placed on remand on different conditions in two separate cases registered at Paltan and Motijheel police stations in connection with incidents of clashes between police and BNP leaders and workers on Wednesday. The order was passed by Additional Magistrate Tofajzel Hossain of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court […]
In the case, there were nine accused, including BNP general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and senior joint general secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. Court Bench Assistant Atiqur Rahman confirmed the matter with Prothom Alo. Earlier, the same court had issued an arrest warrant against BNP leader Ishraq Hussain on similar grounds for allegedly setting a […]
In 2018, the government launched a special campaign against drugs. Small-scale drug dealers were caught in that campaign but the big fish and godfathers remained out of reach. Allegations of extrajudicial killings and widespread human rights violations emerged during the operation. In February 2019, some 101 drug dealers listed by the Ministry of Home Affairs […]
A court in Chattogram once again sent Abir Ali, the suspected killer of seven-year-old girl Aayat, on seven-day remand on Monday, UNB reported. Plaintiff’s lawyer Selim Ullah Chowdhury said the court passed the order after the police produced Abeer before Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Court judge Mohammad Abdul Haleem at the end of his two-day remand. […]
An expelled Jatiya Party (Japa) leader has filed a lawsuit seeking suspension of all party activities amid a temporary ban on party president GM Quader. Jatiya Party co-chairman Syed Abu Hussain, GM Quader’s wife Sherifa Quader and 98 other leaders and activists were on Wednesday named as defendants in the lawsuit filed by former JAP […]
Felani, a Bangladeshi girl was killed shot while crossing the border at Anandapur district in Kurigram on January 7, 2011. Her dead body was hanging for a long time. BSF began initial investigation in own court. BSF court acquitted the accused BSF jawan Amiya Ghosh. The BSF court considers the case after a protest against […]
Usually military personnel are tried by court martial. The procedure of that court is little different. The verdict can’t be challenged in civil court. There is a tendency to avoid the civil court by military personnel. Many analysts argue that speedy and strict trial is needed to maintain discipline in army. But Nurunnahar Shelly the […]