While he was still reeling with shock from the loss of his eight-year-old younger son, Mohidul Islam had to see his elder son taken away by police. Sourav, 12, was not only shown arrested in the case for murdering his brother Sohag but also forced to give a confessional statement, said the father, a day labourer by profession. "Police took bribe from the murderers since they
5 doctors sued Our Correspondent, Tangail Our Correspondent, Tangail
Five doctors of Tangail General Hospital s gynecology department were sued on Thursday for leaving a piece of gauze inside a woman s abdomen during her C-section.
Her father SM Mahbub Hossain filed the case with Senior Judicial Magistrate s Court in Tangail against Dr Nisfun Nahar, Dr Apu Saha, Dr Abida Sultana, anesthetist Fazlul Haque and intern Dr Jakir.
Judge Shamsul Haque took the case into cognisance and ordered Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to investigate the incident. The court also asked the PBI to submit the report by August 12, court sources said.
Quoting the case statement, plaintiff s lawyer Abdul Baki Miah told The Daily Star that Mahbub took his daughter Kamrun Nahar Rini to the hospital on January 31 and she gave birth to a male child there after her Cesarean operation.
Khizir Hayat’s wife files case application against Quader Mirza with Speedy Trial Tribunal
File photo of Abdul Quader Mirza UNB, Noakhali UNB, Noakhali
The wife of a local Awami League leader in Noakhali who suffered a brutal assault allegedly led by rival AL leader and Basurhat Mayor Abdul Quader Mirza has filed an application with the Speedy Trial Tribunal to hear a case against Mirza and 96 others.
Arjuman Parveen, wife of Companiganj Upazila unit AL president Khizir Hayat Khan, filed the case application yesterday. Quader Mirza, also the brother of AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader, has been named as the main accused.
Rohingya Lensman: 51 eminent citizens call for release
Photo: Abolfazl Talooni Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
Fifty-one academics, human rights activists and lawyers have issued a statement demanding the release of Rohingya photographer Abul Kalam, who they claim landed in jail on Thursday for taking photos of buses departing Kutupalong for Bhasan Char.
Photographer Abul Kalam was brought to the Senior Judicial Magistrate Court in Ukhiya on Thursday with charges of impeding officers from discharging their duties during an incident that happened over seven months ago, according to court documents obtained by The Daily Star.
Organisers said Kalam was sent to Cox s Bazar Jail by a magistrate on Thursday.