Staff Reporter :
Criminal Law expert and former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association Advocate Khandker Mahbub Hossain on Monday said that the judgement which said that ‘life term imprisonment means imprisonment till death’ was inconsistent.
“This judgement is contrary to the another judgement of the Appellate Division delivered before. So, uncertainty has been arisen in the interpretation of law by this judgement. This judgement was not delivered with proper consideration. That is why a review petition has been filed to remove the confusion,” said Advocate Khandker Mahbub.
He said this at a press conference arranged in the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) auditorium.
Khandker Mahbub said, “Life term imprisonment means 30 years imprisonment as per conventional Criminal Law and Jail Rules. After this, if any accused gets rebate ‘Riyadh’, then prision period punishment will be cut off from the total imprisonment time. As per section 35(Ka) of Criminal Code of Procedure, prison of judicial time is to be dropped from the punishment. That is why time of punishment comes to reduce in many cases.”
“On 2013, a bench of the Appellate Division headed by the former apex court judge Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana said that life term imprisonment
means 22 years imprisonment. Though that judgement is still in effect, another bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha in a recently delivered judgement said ‘lifeterm imprisonment means imprisonment till death’. So, uncertainty has been arisen in the interpretation of law by this judgement,” said this lawyers’ leader.
He said, “In a judgedment delivered on february 14, 2017, Appellate Division declared life term imprisonment for the convicts reducing the death sentences. On April 24, 2017, the Appellate Division published the full text of the judgement. It was said in the full text that ‘life term imprisonment means imprisonment till death’. This is in consistant. It was also said in the judgement that life term imprisonment convict has no right to get rid of the sentence.”
Criminal Law expert and former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association Advocate Khandker Mahbub Hossain on Monday said that the judgement which said that ‘life term imprisonment means imprisonment till death’ was inconsistent.
“This judgement is contrary to the another judgement of the Appellate Division delivered before. So, uncertainty has been arisen in the interpretation of law by this judgement. This judgement was not delivered with proper consideration. That is why a review petition has been filed to remove the confusion,” said Advocate Khandker Mahbub.
He said this at a press conference arranged in the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) auditorium.
Khandker Mahbub said, “Life term imprisonment means 30 years imprisonment as per conventional Criminal Law and Jail Rules. After this, if any accused gets rebate ‘Riyadh’, then prision period punishment will be cut off from the total imprisonment time. As per section 35(Ka) of Criminal Code of Procedure, prison of judicial time is to be dropped from the punishment. That is why time of punishment comes to reduce in many cases.”
“On 2013, a bench of the Appellate Division headed by the former apex court judge Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana said that life term imprisonment
means 22 years imprisonment. Though that judgement is still in effect, another bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha in a recently delivered judgement said ‘lifeterm imprisonment means imprisonment till death’. So, uncertainty has been arisen in the interpretation of law by this judgement,” said this lawyers’ leader.
He said, “In a judgedment delivered on february 14, 2017, Appellate Division declared life term imprisonment for the convicts reducing the death sentences. On April 24, 2017, the Appellate Division published the full text of the judgement. It was said in the full text that ‘life term imprisonment means imprisonment till death’. This is in consistant. It was also said in the judgement that life term imprisonment convict has no right to get rid of the sentence.”
