Senior Supreme Court lawyer and former Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami, Barrister Abdur Razzaq, has passed away. He died at Ibn Sina Hospital in Dhaka on Sunday (May 4) at 4:15pm, where he had been on life support. He was 81 years old at the time of his death.
The High Court has stayed the proceedings of the lease notification for setting up a sacrificial animal market in the capital's Aftabnagar residential area. As a result, lawyers have said that a cow market cannot be set up in Aftabnagar this year as well.
The Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division has suspended the bail granted by the High Court to former ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari in a sedition case.
Chief Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal, Tazul Islam, has said that a forensic analysis confirmed that the voice in a viral audio clip, which mentions having a “license to kill 227 people,” belongs to Sheikh Hasina.
A Dhaka court has granted varying periods of remand in connection with a murder case filed over the anti-discrimination movement for Salman F Rahman, former adviser to Sheikh Hasina; Anisul Huq, former law minister; and Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, former Inspector General of Police.
The Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum (BJAF), a platform of pro-BNP lawyers, called for the arrest and trial of former Chief Justice A B M Khairul Haque.