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The Penal Code of Bangladesh is the official criminal code of Bangladesh.It is based on the Indian Penal Code enacted in 1860 by the Governor General-in-Council. It is similar to the penal codes of countries formerly part of the British Empire in South and Southeast Asia, including Singapore, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.
A number of offences (crimes not resulting in death) are punishable by death when committed by armed forces personnel. These offences include: providing aid to the enemy, cowardice, and desertion, and inducement to such and cowardly use of a flag of truce or any act calculated to imperil Bangladesh. [10]
A first information report (FIR) is a document prepared by police organisations in many South and Southeast Asian countries, including Myanmar, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, when they receive information about the commission of a cognisable offence, or in Singapore when the police receive information about any criminal offence. It generally ...
The Bangladesh National Liberation Struggle (Indemnity) Order, 1973 (President's Order) The Trade Marks (Invalidation and Summary Registration) Order, 1973 (President's Order) The Bangladesh Wild Life (Preservation) Order, 1973 (President's Order) [Repealed] The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society Order, 1973 (President's Order)
Abdul Kader Mollah, On 5 February 2013, the ICT sentenced Abdul Kader Mollah, assistant secretary of Jamaat, to life imprisonment, Bangladesh law subsequently amended to appeal verdicts and changed to the death penalty, and he was executed. [3] Mollah was convicted on five of six counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes. [4]
Prior to 1 November 2007, the court of Magistrates was manned by officers from Bangladesh Civil Service (Administration). Through an Ordinance of 2007, the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 was amended and two classes of Magistrates were created, namely Judicial Magistrate and Executive Magistrate.
The Digital Security Act, 2018, was a digital security law in Bangladesh.This act was passed with the aim of preventing the spread of racism; sectarianism; extremism; terrorist propaganda; and hatred against religious or ethnic minorities through social media, print media or any other electronic media.
Crime in Bangladesh is present in various forms such as drug trafficking, money laundering, extortion, contract killing, fraud, human trafficking, robbery, corruption, black marketeering, political violence, terrorism and abduction, wildlife trafficking, among others.