Gulam Rabbani :
The High Court observed in a verdict that rule of law and judicial corruption cannot go together. If the judicial officers and other employees are corrupted, then the rule of law will be confined to the books, it will never be materialized.
Being angered by a lower court verdict the High Court further said, “The judiciary is the last place of common people’s hope and aspiration.
When the judges of this last shelter sell a verdict, then the common people really don’t have any place to go. They become frustrated, angry, upset and keep looking for alternatives.”
“If we, the judiciary, fail as a last resort of the common people, then they will be forced to look for alternatives, which could not be imaginable. So, now is the time to radically reform our judiciary, the last refuge of the people, by eradicating the root causes of corruption and turn it into a credible institution,” also read the verdict.
“A corruption-free judiciary is one of the key conditions for the rule of law. The rule of law cannot be imagined without a corruption-free judiciary. Therefore, if all the stakeholders concerned do not take the necessary steps to build a corruption-free judiciary without delay, there is a danger can be seen that even good judges might be harmed.”
The High Court bench of Justice Md Ashraful Kamal and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil delivered the verdict after hearing two writ petitions filed challenging four lower court orders regarding the ownership of three houses of Kakrail area of the capital city.
The short judgement was delivered by the HC on December 11, 2019 and the full text of the verdict published in the website recently.
The High Court scrapped the verdicts delivered by the 1st Settlement Court of Dhaka on November 27, 1995 in four settlement cases and upheld the declaration of holding Nos. 56, 56/1 and 57 Kakrail of Dhaka as abandoned property.
The High Court asked the deputy commissioner of Dhaka to hand over the properties to the Neuro Developmental Disability Protection Trust within three months so that no fraudsters can seize the property again. Indicating the judgement of the first settlement court of Dhaka the HC said that our judiciary had never seen such an unprecedented and fraudulent order.
The High Court said that the first settlement court of Dhaka delegated the ownership of holding Nos. 56, 56/1 and 57 Kakrail of Dhaka to some people by delivering a fictitious verdict based on a some documents that did not exist.
Registrar General of the Supreme Court has been asked to hand over a copy of this verdict, specially to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after constrain it in book form so that she can took initiatives for protecting the abandoned properties from the grabbing by the cohorts of the pro Pakistan people.
Advocate Shihab Uddin Mahmud appeared in the court on behalf of the respondent, while Deputy Attorney General Wayes Al Haruni and Assistant Attorney General Mahfuzur Rahman Likhon represented the state.
The High Court observed in a verdict that rule of law and judicial corruption cannot go together. If the judicial officers and other employees are corrupted, then the rule of law will be confined to the books, it will never be materialized.
Being angered by a lower court verdict the High Court further said, “The judiciary is the last place of common people’s hope and aspiration.
When the judges of this last shelter sell a verdict, then the common people really don’t have any place to go. They become frustrated, angry, upset and keep looking for alternatives.”
“If we, the judiciary, fail as a last resort of the common people, then they will be forced to look for alternatives, which could not be imaginable. So, now is the time to radically reform our judiciary, the last refuge of the people, by eradicating the root causes of corruption and turn it into a credible institution,” also read the verdict.
“A corruption-free judiciary is one of the key conditions for the rule of law. The rule of law cannot be imagined without a corruption-free judiciary. Therefore, if all the stakeholders concerned do not take the necessary steps to build a corruption-free judiciary without delay, there is a danger can be seen that even good judges might be harmed.”
The High Court bench of Justice Md Ashraful Kamal and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil delivered the verdict after hearing two writ petitions filed challenging four lower court orders regarding the ownership of three houses of Kakrail area of the capital city.
The short judgement was delivered by the HC on December 11, 2019 and the full text of the verdict published in the website recently.
The High Court scrapped the verdicts delivered by the 1st Settlement Court of Dhaka on November 27, 1995 in four settlement cases and upheld the declaration of holding Nos. 56, 56/1 and 57 Kakrail of Dhaka as abandoned property.
The High Court asked the deputy commissioner of Dhaka to hand over the properties to the Neuro Developmental Disability Protection Trust within three months so that no fraudsters can seize the property again. Indicating the judgement of the first settlement court of Dhaka the HC said that our judiciary had never seen such an unprecedented and fraudulent order.
The High Court said that the first settlement court of Dhaka delegated the ownership of holding Nos. 56, 56/1 and 57 Kakrail of Dhaka to some people by delivering a fictitious verdict based on a some documents that did not exist.
Registrar General of the Supreme Court has been asked to hand over a copy of this verdict, specially to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after constrain it in book form so that she can took initiatives for protecting the abandoned properties from the grabbing by the cohorts of the pro Pakistan people.
Advocate Shihab Uddin Mahmud appeared in the court on behalf of the respondent, while Deputy Attorney General Wayes Al Haruni and Assistant Attorney General Mahfuzur Rahman Likhon represented the state.
