The Chittagong City Corporation on Thursday filed a general diary with the Khulshi police station in connection with Wednesday’s attack on its mobile court team at the city’s GEC crossing, police and corporation officials said. Police said the CCC inspector, Abul Monsur, filed the
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Mobile courts ordered to stop waterway extortion before Eid
The government on Tuesday ordered mobile court operation to contain extortion and to ensure safe journey on river routes across the country before Eid-ul-Fitr. The directive came at an inter-ministerial meeting on curbing extortion and ensuring security on river routes. The home minister, Sahara Khatun, presided over the meeting at the
3 univ students jailed for sexual harassment
A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday sentenced three private university students to two years’ imprisonment for blackmailing a schoolgirl by capturing indecent video. The convicted, Parvez Sarkar, 20, BBA student of South East University, Mahbub Hasan Mohobbot, 20, and Udoy Sarma Utso, 20, BBA students of American International University of Bangladesh
Workers take away 7 convicted drivers
Transport workers confined a mobile court and freed seven drivers held on charge of diving without licence, having forged licence, driving recklessly and talking on mobile while driving at the Gabtali bus terminal on Sunday. Bus service had been suspended for about four hours as the workers rallied for the release of
Govt asked to run mobile courts to check prices
The High Court on Tuesday asked the government to run adequate number of mobile courts in Dhaka and Chittagong metropolitan areas to contain soaring prices in Ramadan, likely to begin on August 2. The bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore also asked the secretaries to the commerce and food ministries ... Read more
Mobile courts to check anarchy: Sahara
Mobile courts would protect public life and property during the 48-hour hartal called by the opposition, home minister Sahara Khatun told reporters at her secretariat office Tuesday. She said that besides the police, mobile courts would operate just as they did during last month’s hartal called by the main opposition BNP and its
Citizens decry govt move
Law experts and rights activists have said that punishing people by mobile courts run by executive magistrates denying the accused their right to self-defence is unconstitutional and a flagrant violation of human rights. According to them, the Mobile Court Act 2009, enacted by the present government empowering mobile courts to sentence any person to two years ... Read more