UNB, Dhaka :
The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of ‘The Dowry Prohibition Bill, 2017’ incorporating tougher punishment of maximum 14 years of rigorous imprisonment and fine for provoking any bride to commit suicide.
The draft law will also have a provision of maximum punishment of life term or up to 12 years’ imprisonment along with additional fine if any grave injury is caused to any bride by the bridegroom side for dowry.
The approval came from the regular weekly meeting of the Cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Briefing reporters after the meeting, Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam said the draft law has been framed integrating the previous Dowry Prohibition Act of 1980 and its subsequent amended versions were made later.
According to the draft law, Shafiul Alam said, the bridegroom side, including parents of the bridegroom, will have to face minimum one year and maximum five years of jail or up to Tk 50,000 as fine or both for demanding dowry. Besides, he said,
one will be sentenced to one year’s jail or be fined maximum Tk 50,000 for filing a case with false allegation of demanding dowry or be punished by both.
Meanwhile, the government has decided to establish two more universities-Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Science and Technology University in Jamalpur and Sheikh Hasina University in Netrakona.
The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of ‘The Dowry Prohibition Bill, 2017’ incorporating tougher punishment of maximum 14 years of rigorous imprisonment and fine for provoking any bride to commit suicide.
The draft law will also have a provision of maximum punishment of life term or up to 12 years’ imprisonment along with additional fine if any grave injury is caused to any bride by the bridegroom side for dowry.
The approval came from the regular weekly meeting of the Cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Briefing reporters after the meeting, Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam said the draft law has been framed integrating the previous Dowry Prohibition Act of 1980 and its subsequent amended versions were made later.
According to the draft law, Shafiul Alam said, the bridegroom side, including parents of the bridegroom, will have to face minimum one year and maximum five years of jail or up to Tk 50,000 as fine or both for demanding dowry. Besides, he said,
one will be sentenced to one year’s jail or be fined maximum Tk 50,000 for filing a case with false allegation of demanding dowry or be punished by both.
Meanwhile, the government has decided to establish two more universities-Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Science and Technology University in Jamalpur and Sheikh Hasina University in Netrakona.
