Friday 26 August 2011

Violation of human rights in police custody rampant

Md Abdul Kader, a student of Dhaka University,was too injured to move alone because of police torture and he had to beproduced before a High Court bench on a wheel chair on July 28.

In the court, Kader described how police tortured himbrutally in custody, violating human rights (HR).
In fact, violation of human rights in police custody hasbecome a regular phenomenon in the country, ignoring a HC judgment passed eightyears ago. The constitutional and the international covenantal safeguards toprevent torture are also being violated in the police custody, according tolegal experts.

Experts blamed the high ups of the state for consideringthemselves above law and such disregard for law is slowly leading the countryto a failed state.

Supreme Court lawyer died in police custody: severe torture alleged, judicial probe demaned


Failing to bear alleged torture in police custody, detained pro-BNP lawyer Advocate Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed died on Friday after passing 15 days in critical condition in Bangladesh.

MU Ahmed, 57, died at 1 pm at Square Hospital in the city. He fell in a massive heart attack short after police picked him up from his Segunbagicha residence at 1:30 am on August 11 in two separate police cases.

His wife Selina Ahmed said he was quite well when police arrested him and alleged against law enforcers of severely torturing him while police claimed that he suffered heart attack after arrest.

Monday 15 August 2011

Chaos at Courtroom: Pardon follows apology

HC exonerates errant lawyers from contempt of court charge; lower court sends 10 to jail in 2 criminal cases

A High Court bench yesterday pardoned and exonerated 13 pro-BNP lawyers from contempt of court charges after most of them apologised for staging noisy protests in the courtroom early this month.
Judges AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Gobinda Chandra Tagore also vacated their earlier order that banned the lawyers from practising.

Sunday 14 August 2011

Ancestral House of Suchitra Sen: Maintain status quo, SC asks authorities

The Supreme Court yesterday (August 4) directed the authorities concerned to maintain status quo on the possession of the ancestral house of renowned actress Suchitra Sen in Pabna till August 18.