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Preparation complete for war crime trial: Ashraful

Awami League General Secretary and LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam on Thursday said the preparation for war crimes trial was complete and the trial would begin early in 2010.
At a victory-day rally at the central Shahid Minar, Ashraful said the countrymen entrusted Awami League with the mandate to try war criminals and the government completed [...]

Death warrants against Bangabandhu killers Jan 3

The District and Sessions Judge’s Court, Dhaka will issue the death warrants against the five detained convicts in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assassination case on January 3 next year, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed said.
The record and judgment of the case have already been sent to the trial court, the law minister told newsmen at his [...]

War trial process sets out by March

The process of holding trial for the crimes taking place in the time of Liberation War will start by March next year at the Old High Court building.
Law Minister Shafique Ahmed said this to reporters on Sunday at the Judicial Administration Training Institute after visiting the Old High Court building.
He said the government had decided [...]

Rangamati BDR hearing resumes at 3pm

Hearing of the trial of nine suspected Bangladesh Rifles mutineers resumes on Sunday afternoon at a special court at the BDR Sector headquarters in Rangamati.
The trial began on November 24 and was adjourned on November 25 giving the accused about 27 days to pick up counsels for self-defence either from BDR officials or lawyers.
The hearing [...]

Law ministry in a shambles

The recruitment and promotion policy for the law, justice and parliamentary ministry was not followed in appointment and promotion of many officials in last three years, depriving the judicial officials.
Introduced in 2001 in consultation with the Supreme Court, the policy says the law secretary and 75 percent of the first class officers at the ministry’s [...]

Sahara sued for remark on SQ Chy

A defamation case was filed against Home Minister Sahara Khatun in Chittagong on Thursday for her ‘defamatory comment’ about BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury.
Md Imran, a resident of Fatikchhari upazila, filed the case with the court of Judge Akter Hossain, the daily Prothom Alo reports.
In the case details, Imran alleged that Sahara was shown on [...]

ACC chief stresses preventing grafts under political cover

Anti-corruption drive will not achieve much unless corruption under political cover is prevented, Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Ghulam Rahman said on Thursday.
“It’s not possible to bring about a meaningful change unless the nexus of politics-corruption is broken,” the ACC chairman said at a seminar organised by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) at the Brac Centre Inn in [...]