Gulam Rabbani :
The High Court observed in a verdict that the state is depriving the Mohalladars and Dofadars form their legal rights violating its own law.
It said, “The state will abide by its own laws. The state will never break its own laws and rules. All are equal in the eye of law. But these rules have been violated in the present case. The state is depriving the Mohalladars and Dofadars form their legal rights violating its own law.”
The HC bench of Justice Md Ashraful Kamal and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil made the observation in the full text of a verdict in which it directed the government to include Mohalladars and Dofadars of the village police to 20th and 19th grades respectively of the national pay-scale.
The full text of the verdict has been published in the website of the Supreme Court on Wednesday after the judges had signed it.
The court also directed the government to pay their due salaries and allowances as per the national pay-scale since June 2, 2011.
In an observation the court said, “The Mohalladars and Dofadars of the village police are the nearest government employees to the common people. They don’t know what is called corruption or misuse of power. They are the employees who provide the most services to the people even though they are the least benefited.”
“The respondents were not paying due salaries and allowances as per the national pay-scale to the Mohalladars and Dofadars unreasonably and arbitrarily. But these type of behaviors of the respondents are totally contrary to the natural justice,” also read the full text.
Following a writ petition, the same HC bench delivered the verdict on December 15 and 17 in 2019.
The petition was filed by 355 village police members including Lal Miah in 2017 seeking directive on the government to implement its 2008 decision to include the service of village police as the fourth-class employee.
Barrister Mohammad Humaun Kabir took part in the hearing for the petitioners while Deputy Attorney General Wayes Al Haruni and Assistant Attorney General Mahfuzur Rahman Likhon represented the state.
Barrister Humaun Kabir said that about 47,000 village police members across the country would get the equal facilities following the HC verdict.
A Dofadar and a Mohalladar now get Tk 7,000 and 6,000 respectively as monthly salaries and they are not included in any grade, he added.
Meanwhile state minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak recently said the government has taken an initiative to confer the 4th class employee status to the village police members across the country.
The High Court observed in a verdict that the state is depriving the Mohalladars and Dofadars form their legal rights violating its own law.
It said, “The state will abide by its own laws. The state will never break its own laws and rules. All are equal in the eye of law. But these rules have been violated in the present case. The state is depriving the Mohalladars and Dofadars form their legal rights violating its own law.”
The HC bench of Justice Md Ashraful Kamal and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil made the observation in the full text of a verdict in which it directed the government to include Mohalladars and Dofadars of the village police to 20th and 19th grades respectively of the national pay-scale.
The full text of the verdict has been published in the website of the Supreme Court on Wednesday after the judges had signed it.
The court also directed the government to pay their due salaries and allowances as per the national pay-scale since June 2, 2011.
In an observation the court said, “The Mohalladars and Dofadars of the village police are the nearest government employees to the common people. They don’t know what is called corruption or misuse of power. They are the employees who provide the most services to the people even though they are the least benefited.”
“The respondents were not paying due salaries and allowances as per the national pay-scale to the Mohalladars and Dofadars unreasonably and arbitrarily. But these type of behaviors of the respondents are totally contrary to the natural justice,” also read the full text.
Following a writ petition, the same HC bench delivered the verdict on December 15 and 17 in 2019.
The petition was filed by 355 village police members including Lal Miah in 2017 seeking directive on the government to implement its 2008 decision to include the service of village police as the fourth-class employee.
Barrister Mohammad Humaun Kabir took part in the hearing for the petitioners while Deputy Attorney General Wayes Al Haruni and Assistant Attorney General Mahfuzur Rahman Likhon represented the state.
Barrister Humaun Kabir said that about 47,000 village police members across the country would get the equal facilities following the HC verdict.
A Dofadar and a Mohalladar now get Tk 7,000 and 6,000 respectively as monthly salaries and they are not included in any grade, he added.
Meanwhile state minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak recently said the government has taken an initiative to confer the 4th class employee status to the village police members across the country.
