Bangladesh legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 1,652+ Bangladeshi laws, ordinances and statutory instruments from the official consolidated statute bank across 2 official portals, in both English and Bengali. Search Bangladeshi legal data directly or connect it to your AI agent, legaltech product or research workflow through Lawstronaut's API and MCP server. Every record is linked to its official source and structured in the same format used across more than 150 jurisdictions.
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What is the principal criminal statute in Bangladesh, and under what act number was it enacted?
The Penal Code, 1860 (Act No. XLV of 1860) is Bangladesh's principal criminal statute, published in the official consolidated statute bank, Laws of Bangladesh.
Source: Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division, Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs — bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/act-details-11.html
Retrieved: 2026-09-24 · Version: 1 · Cited in-turn
The official Bangladeshi sources we cover
Lawstronaut collects Bangladeshi legal materials from official government sources. Each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: the official consolidated statute bank — primary legislation in English and Bengali
- Laws of Bangladesh — English (bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd)
- Laws of Bangladesh — Bangla (bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd)
- The Bangladesh Gazette (BG Press / Department of Printing and Publications)
- Bangladesh National Parliament (Jatiya Sangsad)
- Supreme Court of Bangladesh (Appellate Division and High Court Division)
- Bangladesh Bank
- Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC)
- Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC)
- National Board of Revenue (NBR)
Bangladeshi legal source types covered
Bangladeshi legal coverage centres on the consolidated statute bank — Acts of Parliament, Ordinances, and statutory instruments — with regulatory materials and court decisions where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Acts of Parliament, Ordinances, President's Orders, and statutory instruments, taken directly from the official consolidated statute bank, Laws of Bangladesh (bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd), in both English and Bengali.
Legislative History
Chronologically arranged and consolidated statutes, including amendment records where available, each tied back to its entry in the official statute bank.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Statutory regulatory orders (SROs) and rules issued under primary legislation, with guidance and decisions from Bangladeshi regulators such as Bangladesh Bank, the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission, and the National Board of Revenue available on request.
Case Law
Decisions of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh (Appellate Division and High Court Division) from official sources where available — current coverage centres on the consolidated statute bank, and dedicated court portals can be requested.
One Bangladeshi legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Bangladeshi laws, ordinances, statutory instruments, and official legal materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools.
GET /v2/contents?iso=BD&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Bangladeshi legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Bangladeshi materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Bangladeshi legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build Bangladeshi legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you can do with Bangladeshi legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across Bangladeshi legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Bangladeshi law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Bangladeshi sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Bangladeshi legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Bangladeshi legal research
Bangladeshi legal information is spread across the official statute bank, the Bangladesh Gazette, parliamentary records, and the courts, published in both English and Bengali. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About Bangladesh legal coverage
Bangladesh is a common-law jurisdiction, with a legal system rooted in English common law inherited through British India and layered over statutes enacted by the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament). Consolidated and chronologically arranged statutes — Acts, Ordinances, and President's Orders — are published in the official statute bank, Laws of Bangladesh (bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd), maintained by the Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs. New laws and statutory instruments appear in the Bangladesh Gazette, and the Supreme Court of Bangladesh — its Appellate Division and High Court Division — sits at the apex of the judiciary. Laws are published in both English and Bengali, with older enactments frequently in English and more recent ones in Bengali.
Bangladeshi law is actively modernising: long-standing codes such as the Penal Code 1860 and the Code of Civil Procedure 1908 remain in force alongside a steady stream of newer legislation, from the Right to Information Act 2009 to recent cyber and data legislation. Point-in-time data straight from the official statute bank, with each record carrying its own retrieval timestamp and version, is what keeps a Bangladeshi legal research answer correct today.
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Legaltech companies
Build Bangladeshi legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Bangladeshi acts, ordinances, and statutory changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Bangladeshi legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Bangladeshi legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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