The advisory council yesterday approved several key decisions, including amendments to the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act to reduce the trial and investigation time for rape cases by half.

The interim government has in principle decided to bring necessary changes to the existing Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, including introducing a provision to have a tribunal to deal with child rape cases.

Police have arrested a private university teacher for molesting a student at a barbecue party at the Uttara residence of the accused.

A Madaripur court sentences a police official to four years’ imprisonment in a dowry case filed in 2014.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain expresses his concern over the poor conviction rate in the cases filed under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act and underscores the need for finding out the root cause.

The High Court directs the Supreme Court registrar general to constitute a monitoring cell in order to observe whether the trial proceedings of cases under the women and children repression prevention law are finished in 180 days after their charge farming.

Maruf Kamal Khan Sohel, press secretary to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, has been sued by his wife for torture, police in Dhaka say.

Mahfuzur Rashid Ferdous, a teacher of the Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST), confesses before a Dhaka court that he sexually harassed his female students.

A Dhaka court places a bus helper on a three-day remand in a case filed against him for verbally abused a Dhaka University student yesterday.