Staff Reporter :
A provision of ‘Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000’ was not complied by any trial court, public prosecutor or investigation officer that asks them to assign reasons for not disposal of a case under this Act in 180 days.
According to the Provision 31(ka) of the law, if any tribunal fails to end trial proceedings of a case within 180 days then the court or the public prosecutor and the investigation officer will submit a report to the HC mentioning the reason of failure to end the proceeding. But in last 16 years no report was submitted with the High Court.
The High Court (HC) on Monday directed the authorities concerned to follow the Provision 31(ka) of ‘Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000’, that said the trial court to submit a report to the HC if a case under this act would not be ended within 180 days.The HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice J B M Hassan passed the order after hearing a case filed on this issue.
Syed Aminul Islam, Registrar General of the Supreme Court, said that they had submitted a report complying with a High Court (HC) order.
A case was filed with Rangunia Police Station in Chittagong on February 19 last year against Milad Hossain on charge of killing his wife. Police arrested him after the day of the incident. He has been in jail since then. Trial proceeding of the case started at the last phase of the year in Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 of Chittagong. The tribunal framed charge against Milad Hossain on March 21, 2016. But the tribunal failed to take any witness during the last seven months.
The accused filed a bail petition with the High Court as the case was not ended within 180 days according to law. Advocate Debul Kumar Dey filed the petition on behalf of his client Milad Hossain.
The lawyer brought the matter before the HC bench at the time of hearing of the petition on November 1. Then the HC ordered the government to submit a report if they maintained any action of the provision in response to failure to end the trial proceeding within 180 days.
Sources said, Registrar General of the Supreme Court and Ministry of Law submitted a report to comply with the order of the HC. Considering this report, the HC passed the order.
At the same time the court ordered to settle the case of Milad Hossain within 60 days and not to grant him bail.
