UNB, Dhaka :
The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of ‘The Law and Order Disruption (Speedy Trial) (amendment) Bill, 2017’, raising jail term by two years for committing crimes that disrupt law and order situation.
The approval was given at the regular weekly meeting of the Cabinet held at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Briefing reporters after the meeting at the Bangladesh Secretariat
Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam said the original Law and Order Disruption (Speedy Trial) Act was first framed in 2002.
The trial of some offences disrupting law and order situation like extortion, disrupting traffic movement, vandalism, tender manipulation, giving threats, mugging, terrorising people as well as vandalism of public property and immovable property will come under the purview of the amended law as in the existing one.
According to the amended draft law, the Cabinet Secretary said, anyone responsible for committing crimes disrupting law and order will face minimum two years and maximum seven years of rigorous imprisonment along with fine.
In the existing law, the punishment is minimum two years imprisonment and maximum five years imprisonment, Shafiul Alam said.
The Cabinet meeting also approved a proposal for ratifying the ‘Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities’.
The Cabinet Secretary said the original convention was first adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) member states in 1979. Some 107 countries have so far signed and ratified the recent amendment to the Convention of the IAEA and Bangladesh also needs to sign the amendment to the IAEA since it is the signatory to the original convention.
The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of ‘The Law and Order Disruption (Speedy Trial) (amendment) Bill, 2017’, raising jail term by two years for committing crimes that disrupt law and order situation.
The approval was given at the regular weekly meeting of the Cabinet held at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Briefing reporters after the meeting at the Bangladesh Secretariat
Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam said the original Law and Order Disruption (Speedy Trial) Act was first framed in 2002.
The trial of some offences disrupting law and order situation like extortion, disrupting traffic movement, vandalism, tender manipulation, giving threats, mugging, terrorising people as well as vandalism of public property and immovable property will come under the purview of the amended law as in the existing one.
According to the amended draft law, the Cabinet Secretary said, anyone responsible for committing crimes disrupting law and order will face minimum two years and maximum seven years of rigorous imprisonment along with fine.
In the existing law, the punishment is minimum two years imprisonment and maximum five years imprisonment, Shafiul Alam said.
The Cabinet meeting also approved a proposal for ratifying the ‘Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities’.
The Cabinet Secretary said the original convention was first adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) member states in 1979. Some 107 countries have so far signed and ratified the recent amendment to the Convention of the IAEA and Bangladesh also needs to sign the amendment to the IAEA since it is the signatory to the original convention.
