Staff Reporter :
The Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on Tuesday said, ‘No one can take the law into his own hands in a civilized society. If any one does so, it means that he refuses the Constitution, the Law and the Country.’
The Chief Justice also said that our Constitution preserved the right of all sections of people. It was the spirit of our independence war. But we are departing from the spirit of the independence. He also said, ‘If anybody commits any crime, then he will face the law. But no one should take the law in his own hands.’ He said this while addressing in ‘Bijoya’ reunion as the chief guest arranged in the Supreme Court Bar Auditorium. The Supreme Court Bar Association hosted the program. Supreme Court Bar President Advocate Yusuf Hussain Humayun presided over the program. Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, Bangladesh Bar Council Vice-Chairman Advocate Abdul Baset Majumder, Principal of Ramkrisna Mission and Shrine Shremoth Swami Durgeshananda Moharaj, Convener of the program Advocate Satyendra Chandra Bhokta also gave speech in the program. The Chief Justice said to the lawyers that they should condemn those who were sowing the seeds of communalism in the country. He also said, ‘We see that the Syrian refugees are not going to Saudi Arabia, but to Germany, which is giving them shelter. So, caste or religion is nothing for a country. Humanity is the greatest question,’ he said.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said that the real religion is to feel people, to remove discrimination and to ensure equal opportunity for all the people. He also said that they had to go far to eliminate violence from the society. He also said that they needed a secular education system to get free from fundamentalism. Advocate Abdul Baset Majumder said that people of all religions of our country contained the spirit of non-communalism. “We are also trying relentlessly to make a non-communal Bangladesh. But Rohingyas are thrown in a inhuman situation. Nobody is saying about the issue”, he added. Advocate Yusuf Hussain Humayun said that they believed in non-communalism. He called to build a country of non-communalism.
