Editorial Desk :
We must remove the cruelty from the prosecution which loves to start cases and insists not to grant bail. Our justice system is more obliging to prosecution than the accused’s rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
We live in Bangladesh where inhumanity and unkindness has become normal. Cruelty is prevalent and palpable everywhere and more so in the justice system.
Blaming the judges cannot be enough because the system is cruel. Police cases are easy. The people are afraid of false cases. This is a cruel reality.
Human rights are talked about not taken seriously. Because keeping in jail for years without trial does not hurt our conscience. Think if he is not found guilty who will return his lost years and compensate the sufferings of his family members. However serious is the allegation it is merely a paper transaction before the accused is put on trial and found guilty.
The law is clear that one is presumed innocent till
he is found guilty. Our courts have become habituated not to treat that as law. Police FIR is enough to deny one’s fundamental rights not to be treated as a criminal. Bail will not be granted because the police accusation is serious. The offence may be serious but whether right person has been arrested or saved remains a big question. There is political pressure on police. The police themselves are not as pure as to be relied on about their veracity.
Our justice system is unknowingly but psychologically vengeful. Only judges can save the judiciary from its inherent cruelty. Make bail easy only then police will be discouraged to cases implicating anybody they like.
We appealed on many occasions about the BDR men not found guilty of mutiny should be freed. A report in a national daily on Friday said that many acquitted in the BDR mutiny cases were not set free and languishing in jail for more than seven years. The government has implicated many acquitted persons in new cases under explosive act. This cannot be justified after the acquittal in the principal case of mutiny.
The saga of the BDR mutiny in 2009 in which 57 army officers were brutally massacred and their families vandalized in the city’s Pilkhana headquarters of the border forces now renamed Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in an overnight carnage. On November 5, 2013, a Dhaka court awarded death sentence to 150 BDR members and two civilians, and life imprisonment to 160 for their roles in the carnage. The court handed down rigorous imprisonment to 256 people, mostly BDR soldiers. It also acquitted 278 others but the government later appealed against 69.
It has become the nature of the government to abuse law to keep people in jail without human considerations.
The persecution is in the habit filing unnecessarily multiple cases where one case should be sufficient .The people blame the judiciary without knowing the too many unnecessary cases are filed by the government only to make the people suffer.
Multiple cases against BDR found not guilty of mutiny cannot be justified on the technicalities of law. They must be set free. They are in jail for years unjustifiably.
We must remove the cruelty from the prosecution which loves to start cases and insists not to grant bail. Our justice system is more obliging to prosecution than the accused’s rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
We live in Bangladesh where inhumanity and unkindness has become normal. Cruelty is prevalent and palpable everywhere and more so in the justice system.
Blaming the judges cannot be enough because the system is cruel. Police cases are easy. The people are afraid of false cases. This is a cruel reality.
Human rights are talked about not taken seriously. Because keeping in jail for years without trial does not hurt our conscience. Think if he is not found guilty who will return his lost years and compensate the sufferings of his family members. However serious is the allegation it is merely a paper transaction before the accused is put on trial and found guilty.
The law is clear that one is presumed innocent till
he is found guilty. Our courts have become habituated not to treat that as law. Police FIR is enough to deny one’s fundamental rights not to be treated as a criminal. Bail will not be granted because the police accusation is serious. The offence may be serious but whether right person has been arrested or saved remains a big question. There is political pressure on police. The police themselves are not as pure as to be relied on about their veracity.
Our justice system is unknowingly but psychologically vengeful. Only judges can save the judiciary from its inherent cruelty. Make bail easy only then police will be discouraged to cases implicating anybody they like.
We appealed on many occasions about the BDR men not found guilty of mutiny should be freed. A report in a national daily on Friday said that many acquitted in the BDR mutiny cases were not set free and languishing in jail for more than seven years. The government has implicated many acquitted persons in new cases under explosive act. This cannot be justified after the acquittal in the principal case of mutiny.
The saga of the BDR mutiny in 2009 in which 57 army officers were brutally massacred and their families vandalized in the city’s Pilkhana headquarters of the border forces now renamed Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in an overnight carnage. On November 5, 2013, a Dhaka court awarded death sentence to 150 BDR members and two civilians, and life imprisonment to 160 for their roles in the carnage. The court handed down rigorous imprisonment to 256 people, mostly BDR soldiers. It also acquitted 278 others but the government later appealed against 69.
It has become the nature of the government to abuse law to keep people in jail without human considerations.
The persecution is in the habit filing unnecessarily multiple cases where one case should be sufficient .The people blame the judiciary without knowing the too many unnecessary cases are filed by the government only to make the people suffer.
Multiple cases against BDR found not guilty of mutiny cannot be justified on the technicalities of law. They must be set free. They are in jail for years unjustifiably.
