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Law Week
Lawyers to boycott chief justice's court
Supreme Court lawyers boycott the chief justice's court indefinitely from August 30, as he ignored their demand for cancellation of the swearingin of 19 new additional judges appointed on what they said were political grounds. The Supreme Court Bar Association decided that any member, including the attorney general, would be expelled from the Bar in failure to comply with the boycott decision. The Bar will file a writ petition with the High Court to challenge the appointment after the lawyers receive explanations.The government appointed 19 additional judges to the High Court on August 23, triggering resentment among lawyers who described the recruitment as the worst-case example of political motives. The fourth recruitment by the BNP-led coalition took the number of judges appointed to the High Court to 45 since 2002. The Bar at an emergency requisition meeting that day resolved the new judges should not be addressed as "My Lord" which should be replaced by a new term in consultation with the association. Bar President Rokanuddin Mahmud told that "respect comes from inside and it cannot be demanded". "The government pushed us to the extremes." Meanwhile, Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Parishad yesterday strongly protested the boycott decision, terming the action an infringement on functioning of the judges and violation of fundamental rights of justice seekers.
On the other hand boycott of the chief justice's court was challenged on September 2 in the High Court by three senior lawyers saying, the decision of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) was ulta vires the fundamental rights in their writ said the SCBA by taking the harsh decision has infringed their fundamental right to legal practice. - Law Desk.
Monk murder case
The First Additional District and Sessions Judge Court here awarded death penalty August 29 to all the six living accusees of the murder of a Buddhist monk in Raozan on April 21, 2002. The monk, Gyanojyoti Mohathero, was brutally slain in his monastery at Hingala Warapuyan Buddha Bihar, a temple cum orphanage, in Raozan of the district triggering outrage at home and abroad.The court ordered to execute the convicts by hanging them until death upon approval of the High Court.
The judgement, however, provided for the convicts to appeal to the higher court within seven days after receipt of attested copies of the verdict. -Daily Star, August 30.
HC rule on Nurul's retirement
The High Court issued a rule asking the government to reply in six weeks why the section 9 (2) of the Public Service (Retirement) Act, 1974 should not be declared illegal.
The court issued the order following a writ petition filed by prime minister's acting secretary AHM Nurul Islam, who was forced into retirement on June 3 reportedly on charges of violating service rule and acting against the government. -Daily Star, August 30.
10 outlaws to die for Kazi Aref killing
A court in Kushtia sentenced 10 underground operatives to death and another 12 to life imprisonment, convicting them of murdering five Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) leaders, including Kazi Aref Ahmed six years ago.
The First Additional District and Sessions Judge's Court relieved three people of the charges after an 85-workday trial that recorded statements of 41 of the 57 prosecution witnesses.
An armed gang killed Aref, the central president of JSD and freedom fighter, along with his four local party colleagues while he was speaking out against political violence at a rally in Kalidaspur village in Daulatpur in the south-western district on February 16, 1999. -Daily Star, August 31.
Letter to PM
Country representative of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), Rafique Al Islam was arrested on August 21 at his home in Cox's Bazar by soldiers from the RAB. The authorities have neither charged him nor provided a basis for his arrest. In a letter to Prime Minister, executive director of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch and senior representative of the ICBL's Coordinating Committee, Stephen Gooses expressed that it is an outrage that this respected member of the Nobel Peace Laureate ICBL has been arbitrarily arrested and detained. He further added that his arrest and detention is very surprising and disturbing, especially given the positive leadership role that the government of Bangladesh has played recently in banning antipersonnel mines.
Bangladesh ratified the Mine Ban Treaty on September 6, 2000 and currently serves as co-rapporteur of the treaty's Standing Committee on Stockpile Destruction.- Prothom Alo, September 1.
HC order on speaker's house in
JS compound stayed
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on August 31 stayed for two months operation of a High Court judgement that had declared construction of official residences for the speaker and the deputy speaker within the Jatiya Sangsad compound "illegal and without lawful authority".
A three-member bench of the Appellate Division, presided over by Chief Justice Syed JR Mudassir Husain, passed the order on a government petition seeking leave to appeal against the High Court judgement.
None of the counsellors for the petitioners was present because of a Supreme Court Bar Association boycott of the chief justice's court.- New Age,September 1.
Yasmeen murder
Two of the three former policemen convicted of raping and killing 13-year-old Yasmeen more than nine years ago walked the gallows in Rangpur Central Jail .Former assistant sub-inspector Moinul Hoque and ex-constable Abdus Sattar were hanged on the same gallows at a time under tight security.- Daily Star, September 2.
Human Rights condition in August
As many as 46 persons were killed, 1013 injured and 4 kidnapped in violation of human rights relating to politics in the month of August, human rights organisation Odhikar in its monthly report said.
Those killed and the injured included the victims of the grenade attack on the Awami League rally at Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, in which Awami League Women Affairs Secretary Begum Ivy Rahman and 19 others were killed and over 300 injured. According to the Odhikar report prepared on the basis of newspaper reports, 17 persons were killed by the law enforcing agencies while 5 others died under police and jail custody.
The report said on August 22, district correspondent of the daily Ajker Kagoj Kamal Hossain was killed. At the same time, 14 persons received injuries, three were harassed two subjected to attack and 30 journalists were given threat on their lives. Some 62 women were raped and 10 of the rape victims were killed and 19 persons including one male, seven children and 11 women became the victims of acid attack. As many as 29 women were the victims of dowry. Of them, 16 were killed, 11 repressed, one committed suicide and one became the victim of acid attack. The report also pointed out that nine were killed, 25 injured, 22 abducted and seven arrested in violation of human rights in the country's three hill district Bandarban, Rangamati and Khagrachhari. -The Bangladesh Observer, September 2.
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