A mobile court -- under a taskforce of Kurigram district administration -- sentences a journalist to one-year imprisonment for “possessing drugs”, after he was arrested from his house.

A mobile court of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) yesterday shifted its focus on jaywalkers, as drives against traffic rule violators went on in Dhaka and Chittagong.

A mobile court fines United Hospital, a private hospital in Dhaka’s Gulshan, Tk 20 lakh for using expired reagents in medical tests and surgical items without any expiry date.

Police and Ansar will be available on demand to help mobile court operations, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan assures.

The Supreme Court stays till Thursday the High Court verdict that declared unconstitutional the rules under which the executive magistrates run mobile courts.

A mobile court yesterday fined two shops Tk 5.5 lakh for producing and selling substandard cables at Nawabpur road market in the capital.