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Mobile courts run out of steam?

MizanurKhan
Efforts of 20 mobile courts to head off crime and control runaway traffic in Dhaka apparently fizzled out amid scenes of law and order downslide.
The government set up the courts under 20 police stations of the 22 on January 29, four days before the Eid-ul-Azha, the time that sees crime including mugging on the rise and traffic out of control.
"lb improve the situation, 20 magistrates are working under the home ministry with the back-ups of police and BDR (Bangladesh Rifles)," Shafique Anwar, a magistrate, told Star City.
But city dwellers think there is no significant change in the situation: killing is uncontrolled, faulty cars hit the streets, launches without fitness certificates ply rivers, buses and minibuses burst with passengers beyond their capacity.
"Killing, mugging and extortion have become common to the city," said Rafiq Hossain, a businessman, pointing to the brutal murder of a 25-year-old girl after rape in Pallabi on Friday.
A gang of six abducted, gangraped and burnt Fatema Khatun Kohinoor alive apparently over a row with her family, throwing security fears into sharp relief.
Statistics on killings are not available in any government agency such as the
Public Relations Department, Dhaka Metropolitan Police and Detective Branch, which referred Star City to one another for information.
Businesspeople said at least five businessmen were killed in the last two months and a study reported at least 50 carjackings in Dhaka last month.
On other areas of mobile courts’ work, Shafique said: "Controlling adulterated food, sale of food in unhygienic places and illegal occupation of sidewalks is also the work of the mobile courts."
The courts filed around 5,000 cases and took Tk 25 lakh in fines from January 29 to February 29. Fifteen people were jailed in seven cases.
The 20 police stations were divided into nine zones for smooth functioning of tire courts: Mirpur-Pallabi-Kafrul, Uttara-Gulshan-Badda, Kotwali-Lalbagh, Tejgaon-Mohammadpur, Khilgaon-Sabujbaglr, Kamrangirchar-Hazaribagh, Motijheel-Sutrapur, Dhanmondi-Ramna and Shaympur-Demra. The cantonment and airport police stations were left out of the list
An official, seeking anonymity, said there is no office for the mobile court magistrates and they rest at police stations in their localities and cannot work on their own.
"We cannot rush to the place in time as vehicles are not available. Illegal shops come back to the footpaths two
days after we demolish them," said a magistrate at Farmgate.
"Violators are fined, cases are filed but the next day they drive their faulty cars back to the streets," a magistrate said.
Dhaka residents complain that dishonest vendors sell foods in unhygienic places - unchecked by the mobile courts. Bangladesh Standards and
Testing Institution did not send representatives to the courts to take action against the criminals.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Mohammad Ayub rearranged mobile courts under 12 police stations on February 23, as the situation did not improve.
The CMM could not be reached for comment.