The High Court on Thursday declared illegal as well as unconstitutional all kinds of corporal punishment to the students in schools and madrasas enforced by teachers.
Delivering the judgment on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), the
High Court also asked the government to formulate an effective policy
guideline to bring to an end of all kinds of corporal punishment in
classrooms to ensure a more conducive atmosphere for the students, as
the existing procedure against the perpetrators lacks propriety.
Thursday 13 January 2011
Taher case: HC summons Shawkat, Tribunal judge says he wanted to resign
Mohammad Abdul Ali, one of the judges of the Military Tribunal that tried Col (Retd) Abu Taher and others in 1976, yesterday gave his statement to the High Court bench, saying that he had become a judge as per directive of then Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka AMM Shawkat Ali.
The HC directed AMM Shawkat Ali, former adviser of the last caretaker government, to appear before it on January 18 regarding the Tribunal's trial that sentenced Taher to death in 1976.
2 top officials of TIB met CJ, other judges over corruption report
Two top officials of the Transparency International of Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday met the Chief Justice and other judges of the committee, made to evaluate recent TIB report, at the judges' lounge of the SC.
3 more judges submit wealth reports to CJ
Three more Supreme Court judges have submitted their wealth statements to the Chief Justice.
The High Court on Wednesday asked the Cabinet Secretary to submit the names and whereabouts of the army men who were pivotal in making decisions from behind to run the state between November 1975 and August 1976.
The court also asked the Establishment and Defense secretaries to submit the names and whereabouts of the members of the Special Martial Law Tribunal which awarded death sentence to Lt Col (retd) MA Taher, Bir Uttam.
Barrister Toby Cadman on January 12 said the principles of the international law and 'due process' must be followed in holding trail of the international crimes in a free and fair manner.
Otherwise, the whole process of such a trial was defected, Toby Cadman, a former prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said, "Justice must not only be done: it must be seen to be done."
SC lawyer Iftekha Ahmed for written apology
The High Court on November directed Supreme Court lawyer Iftekha Ahmed for apologising to it in black and while for his false arguments on behalf of Korban Ali, the main accused in a child amputation case.
A bench of the HC comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain passed the order.
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