Documented criminal cases from Bangladesh are added only when reliable sources support a substantive account. Court outcomes are separated from allegations, unresolved responsibility stays unresolved, and victim context comes before spectacle.
A case appears under Solved / Adjudicated only when the available record supports a sufficiently definitive investigative or legal outcome. Cases with unresolved responsibility, open investigations or materially contested outcomes belong under Unsolved / Partial.
Actor Sohel Chowdhury was shot dead in Banani in 1998. After a trial delayed for decades, a Dhaka tribunal sentenced three defendants to life imprisonment in 2024 and acquitted six others whose charges were not proved.
Open case file →Afroza Sultana was killed at her Dhaka home in 2022. Her driver Hridoy Bepari was convicted of murder by a Dhaka trial court in July 2026 after a case built on CCTV, recovered property, forensic evidence and a confession.
Open case file →Police inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and Swapna Rahman were murdered in Dhaka in 2013; their daughter Oishee Rahman was convicted, and her death sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment.
Open case file →Child worker Rakib Hawlader was killed in Khulna in 2015. Two men were convicted of murder, and Bangladesh's Appellate Division ultimately left their life sentences in place.
Open case file →Ershad Shikdar accumulated multiple murder convictions in Khulna. His death sentence for killing Khalid Hossain survived High Court and Supreme Court review before his 2004 execution.
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The 1975 assassination was blocked from ordinary prosecution for years. Bangladesh's Supreme Court ultimately confirmed 12 death sentences.
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The High Court in August 2026 upheld two death sentences, changed four to life terms and acquitted ten defendants.
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Twenty hostages were killed in Dhaka in July 2016. Seven facilitators were convicted, with further appeals pending.
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Twenty defendants received death sentences and five life terms; the High Court upheld those judgments in 2025.
Open case file →Cases in which responsibility remains unresolved, materially incomplete or legally contested.
Ahsanullah Master and Omar Faruq Ratan were killed at a Tongi political gathering in 2004. Trial and High Court judgments produced different outcomes, and the Supreme Court began hearing the remaining appeals in August 2026.
Open case file →Former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria and four others were killed in a 2005 grenade attack in Habiganj. After multiple investigations, the murder trial was still taking witness testimony twenty years later.
Open case file →Rifat Sharif was killed in Barguna in 2019. Adult and juvenile trials produced convictions and acquittals, while the adult capital cases remained under High Court review in the latest reliable reporting located.
Open case file →Thirteen-year-old Samiul Alam Rajon was killed in Sylhet in 2015. Four defendants received death sentences that the High Court upheld in 2017; no later Appellate Division judgment was located in the current review.
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The retired army officer was killed at a police checkpoint in 2020. The High Court upheld two death sentences and six life terms in 2025; a later final appellate disposition was not located in this review.
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Seventy-four people were killed. The High Court confirmed 139 death sentences, but the major Supreme Court appeals were still pending in 2026.
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Trial convictions were overturned, and the Supreme Court upheld all acquittals in September 2025.
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Thirty-five defendants were convicted in 2017; Supreme Court appeals remained pending.
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The 2013 collapse killed 1,136 people. The murder case remained unfinished in 2026.
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High Court review changed several trial outcomes; later proceedings remained unresolved.
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Six defendants were sentenced to death in 2021; mandatory High Court review remained pending.
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Thirteen years after the 2013 murder, investigators still had not filed the charge sheet needed to begin a trial.
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Six defendants were convicted in 2021; an appeal remained pending and two death-sentenced defendants were fugitives.
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Renewed DNA testing and an arrest reopened investigative avenues in 2026, but no one has been convicted.
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On August 27, 2026, the court extended the probe-report deadline for the 129th time.
Open case file →We prioritize court reporting, police and government records where available, established Bangladeshi journalism and reputable international reporting. If a factual detail cannot be supported, it is omitted or framed as an allegation rather than converted into certainty.
Responsibility and final appellate posture are different questions. A case may be adjudicated while an appeal remains pending; the case page explains both so readers can see what has been decided and what remains legally open.