The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday acquitted two death-row convicts and commuted the sentence of another in a case for killing a woman and her daughter in 2008. A three-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order and asked the authorities concerned to free the convicts from the condemn cell as soon as possible. Those acquitted are Ismail Hossain Babu and Sonadi. The SC also commuted the death sentence of Tariqul Islam to life imprisonment in the case. Read:SC suspends bail order by HC to Regent’s Shahed in arms case Advocate Helal Uddin Molla stood for the petitioner while deputy attorney general Bashir Ahmed represented the state. Miliara Khatun and her daughter Parveen of Godagari upazila in Rajshahi district were killed on October 10, 2006. In 2008, a court in Rajshahi sentenced Ismail, Sonadi and Tariqul to death in the double murder case. Later, the convicts filed separate appeal petitions before the High Court. In 2014, the High Court upheld the death sentence of the convicts.

A Dhaka Court on Sunday placed an Awami League leader and four others on five-days' remand over the murder of an Awami League politician and a female college student in Shahjahanpur. The accused are Omar Faruk, 52, general secretary of No 10-ward unit of the Awami League, and Abu Saleh Shikder alias shooter Saleh, 38, Nasir Uddin alias Killer Nasir, 38, Morshedul Alam alias Kayla Palash, 51, and Arfanullah Damal. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Syed Mostafa Reza Nur passed the order when the investigation officer Yeasin Shikder, inspector of the Detective Branch of Police, produced them before the court with 10-day remand prayer. On Friday night, the Awami League politician was among four people detained by the elite Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in connection with the Shahjahanpur shooting. Also read: Shahjahanpur double murder: Ruling AL politician among 4 held On the night of March 24, AL politician Zahidul Islam Tipu, who was on a microbus, and Samia Afrin Priti, a 22-year-old college student, who was returning home on a rickshaw, were killed in firing in front of Islami Bank Hospital. Tipu was a former general secretary of the AL Motijheel committee and Priti was a student of Begum Badrunnesa Government College. Tipu’s driver was also injured in the firing. They were all stuck in a traffic jam in the area when a biker wearing a helmet and a mask appeared from nowhere and fired at them. The next day, a case was filed against unidentified people over the double murder. Also read: Shahjahanpur double murder: Second suspect put on 1-day police remand On March 27, police arrested Akash, 34, the prime accused in the double murder case from Bogura district. The next day, a Dhaka court placed Akash on a seven-day police remand for custodial interrogation. On March 31, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detectives arrested Arfanullah conducting a drive in the city’s Kamalapur area. He was placed on one-day remand on Friday.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday dismissed an appeal challenging the life term sentence of Oishee Rahman, who murdered her parents in 2013.

Tangail, Oct 16 (UNB) - Bodies of a couple who were engaged in an extramarital affair were found in Rafafoir village of Kalihati upazila in Tangail on Friday.

Two young men were hacked to death at Barpara village of Manirampur upazila on Thursday.

A court here on Sunday sentenced four people to death and seven others to life imprisonment for killing two men in 2016 for protesting against eve-teasing of a seventh grader.

A court here on Tuesday placed five people, including key suspect Surovi Akhter Nahida, on a five-day remand each over the murder of a woman and her domestic help in the city’s Dhanmondi area.

Police detained three people on Friday night over the murder of two women in city’s Dhanmondi area.