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Police to have special cyber crime unit
The police plan to set up a special unit to curb cyber crimes by hunting down criminals threatening people or perpetrating other crimes through the internet. "We do not have any such unit right now, but we are working with IT experts in the police department to track down such criminals," said Abdul Quayyum, chief of the Special Branch of police, also an additional inspector general of police. "We want to set up the unit before such crimes go beyond control and we have already initiated a process," the detective police chief told Sunday without mentioning how long it might take to complete the process.-New Age, September 6.
Law to ensure food quality
The government is likely to bring amendments to the Pure Food Ordinance 1959 to ensure the quality of food sold in the country. An already finalised draft of the amendments will be placed in the cabinet this month for approval, sources at the health ministry said adding, "The government, after the amendments, will set up food courts as many as required to ensure pure food for all." The amended law would constitute a National Food Safety Council comprising representatives from the ministries of health and family welfare, LGRD and co-operatives, agriculture, commerce, food, industries, environment and forest and home affairs. The council will be headed by health ministry representative. "The draft also proposes appointment of class I magistrates or sessions judges with special power to try the offenders. The act, to be named Bangladesh Pure Food Act 2004, will have the provision of a minimum fine of Tk 5,000 for selling adulterate food sticking fake labels. Two years of rigorous imprisonment along with a fine of Tk 1 lakh will be the maximum punishment for the offenders which as per the 1959 ordinance is Tk 200 and more, the sources said. -New Age, September 7.
Jail Killing Case
A Dhaka court put off the verdict on the historic Jail Killing Case to September 21 to the resentment of the prosecution and some defence lawyers, as the judge was ill. The judgement, scheduled to come about 29 years after the brutal assassination of four national leaders who gave political leadership during the Liberation War, was adjourned one hour and 15 minutes after schedule for pronouncement, as Judge Mohammad Motiur Rahman could not turn up in court because of illness.
Law enforcers kept journalists and lawyers waiting at the entry to the court near Dhaka Central Jail since morning and said they would be allowed in before the court begins at 10:30am. But the police drove away the journalists and closed the entrance minutes before schedule.
Although it was not an in-camera trial, journalists and lawyers (not involved in the case) were barred not only from the courtroom but the court premises that remained policed by Bangladesh Rifles, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), intelligence agencies and the police in the name of tightening security. -Daily Star, September 8.
Action taken against 9 jail officials
A jailer and three deputy jailers were suspended September 8 after they were transferred from Dhaka Central Jail on August 27 for neglect of duty that led to smuggling-in of bombs and contraband, including drugs. The contraband was seized in a search inside the jail after a sweeper found a grenade in a sewer between cell Nos. 26 and 90, a day after the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally on Bangabandhu Avenue. The authorities suspended six jail guards immediately after the recovery of the grenade.-Daily Star, September 8.
AL lodges case over August 21 grenade attack
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Abdul Jalil filed a case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Dhaka accusing some ruling alliance leaders and 'their patronised terrorists' of the August 21 grenade attack on an AL rally.
After hearing, Metropolitan Magistrate Emdadul Haq took the case into cognisance and directed authorities concerned to send the case to Motijheel Police Station to add it to the FIR (first information report) lodged earlier on August 22 in this connection. Jalil in his complaint mentioned some ruling party leaders and their cadres were instrumental in the grenade attack on the AL rally at 5:30pm on August 21 while Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina was delivering speech standing on a truck-rostrum.-Prothom alo, September 8.
10 jails run without jailers
Ten jails of the country are running without a jailer for around six months.
The post of jailer of Chuadanga, Meherpur, Narail, Jhalkathi, Madaripur, Khagrachhari, Chandpur, Netrokona, Thakurgaon and Lalmonirhat jails fell vacant after some of the jailers were promoted to deputy superintendent while some others were given the current charge of jail superintendent.
Staffs said administrative activities of the jails are disrupted due to long absence of the jailer, the administrative head of a jail. There are complaints of neglect of inspections of the wards and cells, in attending the inmates' objections and irregularities in managing visitors, said some jail staffs. Sources said the authorities failed to appoint new jailers for want of competent officers.-Daily Star, September 9.