Dhaka Central Jail

Why cancel prisoners’ right to visitation?

It is unacceptable that prisoners are being denied visitations from their families for over two weeks.
5 August 2024, 02:00 AM

Hangman Shahjahan dies at Dhaka hospital

The former chief hangman of Dhaka Central Jail Shahjahan Bhuiyan, who was freed from jail on June 18 last year, died at a hospital in Dhaka today
24 June 2024, 10:42 AM

No Aynabaji in real life, please

News of impersonators serving time for convicts raises alarm
9 November 2023, 14:03 PM

Prison reform is the need of the hour

CAG audit report on Dhaka Central Jail demands appropriate response
6 August 2023, 11:30 AM

Dhaka Central Jail: Tk 37.5cr mishandled in just one year

In fiscal 2019-20, the Dhaka Central Jail authorities forked out Tk 9.11 crore to procure rice for inmates. That rice turned out to be unfit for consumption.
5 August 2023, 18:00 PM

Dhaka jail’s chief hangman walks out of prison today

The chief hangman of Dhaka Central Jail is set to walk free today after 32 years. The 73-year-old’s tally of 26 executions includes mobsters, militants, war criminals and assassins.
18 June 2023, 01:30 AM

Jail Killing Day today

The nation will observe Jail Killing Day today by paying rich tributes to four national leaders and Liberation War heroes who were brutally murdered inside the Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 1975.
2 November 2022, 18:00 PM

Haji Salim challenges HC’s 10-year jail sentence

Awami League lawmaker Haji Mohammad Salim has submitted an appeal to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, challenging the High Court verdict that upheld his conviction and 10 years' jail sentence in a corruption case.
24 May 2022, 05:58 AM

Haji Salim admitted to BSMMU

Dhaka-7 lawmaker Haji Md Salim was sent to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) today, a day after he was sent to jail in a corruption case.
23 May 2022, 09:48 AM

Legal notice to scrap jail trial of Khaleda

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia sends a legal notice to the government, requesting it to cancel the gazette notification that said the trial of Zia Charitable Trust corruption case against her will be held at old Dhaka central jail.
5 September 2018, 14:18 PM

Dhaka jail’s under-construction gate falls apart

The main gate of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj, which was under construction, falls apart leaving several persons injured.
15 July 2018, 11:55 AM

Jail Killing Day Today: Wait for justice far from over

It has been 42 years after the killing of the four national leaders at the erstwhile Dhaka central jail, but the authorities
2 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Life-term convict flees from police custody

Wearing hand-cuffs and shackles, a life-term convict flees away from police custody by jumping off a Mymensingh-bound moving train in Trishal area.
24 May 2016, 14:32 PM

LIVE: NIZAMI'S EXECUTION TIMELINE

Find the latest update from Dhaka Central Jail centreing the execution of death row war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami.
10 May 2016, 15:00 PM

Family meets Nizami, goes without talking

Family of Motiur Rahman Nizami has met the death row war criminal at Dhaka Central Jail. After around one-and-half hours of meeting, they left without talking to the meida.
10 May 2016, 12:57 PM

Death designer Nizami hanged for war crimes

Leader of a ruthless militia that massacred innocent unarmed civilians during 1971, Motiur Rahman Nizami has been hanged for crimes committed against humanity during the Liberation War.
10 May 2016, 06:24 AM

Verdict read out to death row war criminal Nizami

The Dhaka Central Jail authorities last night received a copy of the Supreme Court judgment that confirmed the death penalty of war
9 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Security beefed up at Dhaka jail

Security in and around the Dhaka Central Jail, where death row war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami has been kept, was strengthened this afternoon.
9 May 2016, 12:46 PM

PM opens central jail in Keraniganj

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurates the newly-constructed central jail in Keraniganj, on the outskirts of Dhaka.
10 April 2016, 05:03 AM

War crimes: Taher, Nani razakars get death penalty

Special tribunal finds Obaidul Haque Taher and Ataur Rahman Nani of Netrakona guilty of four out of six charges of crimes against humanity pressed against them and hands death penalty for two charges.
2 February 2016, 04:10 AM