Gulam Rabbani :
A group of people in the higher judiciary have made the irregularities like suppression of information, forging of documents and bringing changes in first information report common in granting orders in favor of them. These kinds of activities are tarnishing the sanctity and image of the judiciary.
Meanwhile, some of the judges of the High Court division are taking instant action against the culprits as soon as the matter of this reckless behavior of the fraudsters come to the notice of them. Even the bail of the accused has been cancelled with instructions to file a case against them.
Many such incidents have been identified in the Supreme Court in recent months, sources said. Filing several cases against the accused persons, but the officials of the Supreme Court administration are not aware about the progress of the investigations and trials of the cases.
Even they don’t have any information over how many such cases have been disposed of and how many persons have been sentenced till now for their involvement in such incidents.
It was found from the documents of the fraudulent cases that those were filed and indentified recently that in most cases of fraud in granting bail, the original statement of case, police investigation report, seizure list and even the verdict and order of the lower court have been changed.
The names of the lobbyists of the case came up first in the cycle involved in this work. There are also the names of some dishonest lawyers and lawyers’ assistants involved in this work. The names of the two prison guards have also come up anew and some dishonest employees of different branches of the court also involved.
The High Court rejected a bail petition in January last filed by suspended Deputy Inspector General of Prisons Bazlur Rashid in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on charge of amassing Tk 3.08 crore beyond the known source of his income.
He again filed a petition with the High Court in June this year and the court again rejected him. In the meantime the High Court ordered to start trial against him by framing charge. But a lower court granted him bail on October 29 this year after he had filed a bail petition suppressing the High Court order.
Not only the suppression of the information, the accused are also following many other ways for granting bail in some of the murder, rape and arm cases.
In September 20 this year allegation raised against a lawyer that he had appeared in the court for seeking bail for one of his clients by changing documents of a rape case.
A person named Shahidullah Khan was arrested by police with 2200 pieces of yaba. He failed to secure bail from the trial court in the case then he moved to the High Court. But he changed the statement in his bail prayed submitted in the HC saying that the police found only 20 pieces of yaba. Finally he got the bail from High Court.
This fraud was traced by the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Gopalganj when the accused person submitted his bail order to the concerned court. The Chief Judicial Magistrate sent a report to the High Court over the issue. Then the High Court bench stayed the bail order.
Attorney General AM Amin Uddin who is also the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) said that they had taken legal action immediately against the persons who were found involved with such fraudulent works. He thinks that this forging will be reduced with the digitalization of the judiciary which is under process.
A group of people in the higher judiciary have made the irregularities like suppression of information, forging of documents and bringing changes in first information report common in granting orders in favor of them. These kinds of activities are tarnishing the sanctity and image of the judiciary.
Meanwhile, some of the judges of the High Court division are taking instant action against the culprits as soon as the matter of this reckless behavior of the fraudsters come to the notice of them. Even the bail of the accused has been cancelled with instructions to file a case against them.
Many such incidents have been identified in the Supreme Court in recent months, sources said. Filing several cases against the accused persons, but the officials of the Supreme Court administration are not aware about the progress of the investigations and trials of the cases.
Even they don’t have any information over how many such cases have been disposed of and how many persons have been sentenced till now for their involvement in such incidents.
It was found from the documents of the fraudulent cases that those were filed and indentified recently that in most cases of fraud in granting bail, the original statement of case, police investigation report, seizure list and even the verdict and order of the lower court have been changed.
The names of the lobbyists of the case came up first in the cycle involved in this work. There are also the names of some dishonest lawyers and lawyers’ assistants involved in this work. The names of the two prison guards have also come up anew and some dishonest employees of different branches of the court also involved.
The High Court rejected a bail petition in January last filed by suspended Deputy Inspector General of Prisons Bazlur Rashid in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on charge of amassing Tk 3.08 crore beyond the known source of his income.
He again filed a petition with the High Court in June this year and the court again rejected him. In the meantime the High Court ordered to start trial against him by framing charge. But a lower court granted him bail on October 29 this year after he had filed a bail petition suppressing the High Court order.
Not only the suppression of the information, the accused are also following many other ways for granting bail in some of the murder, rape and arm cases.
In September 20 this year allegation raised against a lawyer that he had appeared in the court for seeking bail for one of his clients by changing documents of a rape case.
A person named Shahidullah Khan was arrested by police with 2200 pieces of yaba. He failed to secure bail from the trial court in the case then he moved to the High Court. But he changed the statement in his bail prayed submitted in the HC saying that the police found only 20 pieces of yaba. Finally he got the bail from High Court.
This fraud was traced by the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Gopalganj when the accused person submitted his bail order to the concerned court. The Chief Judicial Magistrate sent a report to the High Court over the issue. Then the High Court bench stayed the bail order.
Attorney General AM Amin Uddin who is also the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) said that they had taken legal action immediately against the persons who were found involved with such fraudulent works. He thinks that this forging will be reduced with the digitalization of the judiciary which is under process.
