Staff Reporter :
The High Court on Sunday ordered the Home Secretary to provide necessary manpower and all kinds of logistic support to conduct mobile court by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) magistrate.
The High Court bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman passed the order after hearing on a rule issued earlier following a writ petition filed by Mizan Miah, an accused who was sentenced by a mobile court conducted by RAB magistrate.
Meanwhile, Rapid Action Battalion Magistrate Mohammad Sarowar Alam appeared in the High Court on Sunday complying with a previous order and sought unconditional apology for not providing the certified copy of an order of the mobile court, which he conducted while convicting Mizan Miah in July.
The magistrate also informed the High Court that it will not happen in the future. At the same time the magistrate said that he could not give the certified copy of the mobile court order due to shortage of necessary manpower and sufficient logistic support.
The magistrate said that he had to conduct mobile court in different places in a day and write detail order after coming back to his office in Dhaka.
After hearing the magistrate, the High Court passed order to the home secretary to provide necessary manpower and all kinds of logistic support to conduct mobile court by Rapid Action Battalion magistrate.
Advocate Masud Hasan Chowdhury appeared in the court on behalf of the magistrate, while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam and Deputy Attorney General Amit Talukder stood for the State.
The mobile court led by Mohammad Sarowar Alam on July 18 this year sentenced one year’s imprisonment to Mizan Miah, Manager of a cattle feed producing factory named Topu Enterprise at Siddhirganj in Narayanganj, under the Fish Feed and Animal Feed Act 2010.
Mizan Miah, who is now in jail, applied to the mobile court on July 21 for the certified copy of the order, but he is yet to receive the copy. Then the convicted person filed a writ petition with the High Court on November 17 this year challenging the inaction of the mobile court in providing the certified copy. After primary hearing, the HC on November 18 summoned Rapid Action Battalion Magistrate Mohammad Sarowar Alam to appear in the HC on December 1 to explain the matter.
At the same time the HC issued a rule asking Sarowar Alam and other officials concerned to explain in seven days as to why their inaction over providing the certified copy to Mizan Miah should not be declared illegal.
The High Court on Sunday ordered the Home Secretary to provide necessary manpower and all kinds of logistic support to conduct mobile court by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) magistrate.
The High Court bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman passed the order after hearing on a rule issued earlier following a writ petition filed by Mizan Miah, an accused who was sentenced by a mobile court conducted by RAB magistrate.
Meanwhile, Rapid Action Battalion Magistrate Mohammad Sarowar Alam appeared in the High Court on Sunday complying with a previous order and sought unconditional apology for not providing the certified copy of an order of the mobile court, which he conducted while convicting Mizan Miah in July.
The magistrate also informed the High Court that it will not happen in the future. At the same time the magistrate said that he could not give the certified copy of the mobile court order due to shortage of necessary manpower and sufficient logistic support.
The magistrate said that he had to conduct mobile court in different places in a day and write detail order after coming back to his office in Dhaka.
After hearing the magistrate, the High Court passed order to the home secretary to provide necessary manpower and all kinds of logistic support to conduct mobile court by Rapid Action Battalion magistrate.
Advocate Masud Hasan Chowdhury appeared in the court on behalf of the magistrate, while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam and Deputy Attorney General Amit Talukder stood for the State.
The mobile court led by Mohammad Sarowar Alam on July 18 this year sentenced one year’s imprisonment to Mizan Miah, Manager of a cattle feed producing factory named Topu Enterprise at Siddhirganj in Narayanganj, under the Fish Feed and Animal Feed Act 2010.
Mizan Miah, who is now in jail, applied to the mobile court on July 21 for the certified copy of the order, but he is yet to receive the copy. Then the convicted person filed a writ petition with the High Court on November 17 this year challenging the inaction of the mobile court in providing the certified copy. After primary hearing, the HC on November 18 summoned Rapid Action Battalion Magistrate Mohammad Sarowar Alam to appear in the HC on December 1 to explain the matter.
At the same time the HC issued a rule asking Sarowar Alam and other officials concerned to explain in seven days as to why their inaction over providing the certified copy to Mizan Miah should not be declared illegal.
