Staff Reporter :
The High Court on Monday wanted to know from the government what steps it has taken to prevent people from mob beatings and against the perpetrators who were involve in the incidents of mob beating.
The Home Secretary and the Inspector General of Police have been asked to submit separate reports to the court in this regard by November 28.
The court also issued a rule asking the government to explain in four weeks as to why the failure of the respondents to protect Taslima Begum Ranu and others who were killed in mob beatings on different dates in July should not be declared illegal.
The HC bench of Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Justice Md Ashraful Kamal passed the order and issued the rule after hearing a writ petition filed by a Supreme Court lawyer Ishrat Hasan seeking necessary orders regarding the issue.
She submitted a supplementary petition to the High Court on Monday seeking its rule on the government to explain its failure to protect the victims of the incidents of mob beating.
Advocate Ishrat Hasan appeared in the court on behalf of the writ petition.
On July 28, 2019, the writ petition was filed with the High Court seeking its directives on the government to give Tk 5 crore compensation to the family of Taslima Begum Renu, who was killed in a mob beating in Dhaka’s Badda area on July 20.
On July 20, Renu, 40, a mother of two was beaten to dead around 8:30am when she went to Uttar Badda Government Primary School to ask about the admission process, according to police.
Later, her nephew Nasir Uddin Tito filed a case against 400 or 500 unknown people with Badda Police Station.
The High Court on Monday wanted to know from the government what steps it has taken to prevent people from mob beatings and against the perpetrators who were involve in the incidents of mob beating.
The Home Secretary and the Inspector General of Police have been asked to submit separate reports to the court in this regard by November 28.
The court also issued a rule asking the government to explain in four weeks as to why the failure of the respondents to protect Taslima Begum Ranu and others who were killed in mob beatings on different dates in July should not be declared illegal.
The HC bench of Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Justice Md Ashraful Kamal passed the order and issued the rule after hearing a writ petition filed by a Supreme Court lawyer Ishrat Hasan seeking necessary orders regarding the issue.
She submitted a supplementary petition to the High Court on Monday seeking its rule on the government to explain its failure to protect the victims of the incidents of mob beating.
Advocate Ishrat Hasan appeared in the court on behalf of the writ petition.
On July 28, 2019, the writ petition was filed with the High Court seeking its directives on the government to give Tk 5 crore compensation to the family of Taslima Begum Renu, who was killed in a mob beating in Dhaka’s Badda area on July 20.
On July 20, Renu, 40, a mother of two was beaten to dead around 8:30am when she went to Uttar Badda Government Primary School to ask about the admission process, according to police.
Later, her nephew Nasir Uddin Tito filed a case against 400 or 500 unknown people with Badda Police Station.
