Law Week
Pilkhana carnage FIR reading out on
A Dhaka court on April 12 morning started reading out the first information report (FIR) against 850 Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) jawans in connection with February 2009 Pilkhana carnage. Charges against 60 accused were read out till 12:30pm. Of the 850 accused, 827 were produced before the court. Two accused died while 21 are absconding.- The Daily star online edition April 12 2011.
30-40 lawyers accused in 2 cases
Two cases have been filed against three named and 30 to 40 unnamed lawyers following the vandalism which has been held on April 10 at a Dhaka court after a magistrate sent a lawyer accused in a fraud case to jail. The accused lawyers are Khorshed Alam, Nurul Islam and Minara Begum. On April 10, a group of lawyers snatched a fellow lawyer, an accused in a fraud case, from the dock of a Dhaka court as it rejected his bail petition and ordered sending him to jail. The lawyers also vandalised furniture and windowpanes of the courtroom after Metropolitan Magistrate MA Salam rejected the bail petition of advocate Nurul Islam, and passed the order. -The Daily star April 12 2011.
Rid Pharma Case, Plea to place proofs before court
Special Public Prosecutor Mahmud Hossain Jahangir 0n April 11 appealed to the court for directing the complainant to produce before it on May 15 the evidence seized in connection with the Rid Pharma case. The case was filed against managing director of Rid Pharmaceuticals Ltd and four other officials on charges of adulterating paracetamol syrup that caused deaths of 28 children in 2009. Judge Mohammad Abdul Majid of the Drug Court granted the prosecution petition directing Mohammad Shafiqul Islam, drug superintendent, to produce all the alamats seized from different places on the scheduled date. Earlier on March 9, the same court framed charges against the five accused for manufacturing adulterated syrup. On August 10 of 2009, Shafiqul Islam filed the case accusing the five of the company for using toxic diethylene glycol in manufacturing paracetamol syrup that caused deaths of 28 children the same year. - The Daily star April 12 2011.
Limon's mother sues 6 Rab men
Mother of Limon Hossain, who lost his leg due to torture by Rapid Action Battalion, sued six members of Rab in a Jhalakathi court on 10 April. Henu Ara Begum filed a case with Senior Judicial Magistrate's court against Deputy Assistant Director of Rab-8 Md Lutfor Rahman, corporal Md Majaharul Islam, constable Md Abdul Aziz, nayeks Moktadir Hossain and Prahlad Chandra and soldier Kartik Kumar Biswas. After hearing the case petition, Magistrate Nusrat Jahan directed the officer-in-charge of Rajapur Police Station in Jhalakathi to register it as a regular case. Earlier on March 23, Rab shot the 16-year-old college student in the left leg while he was on his way to bring his cows back home at Chhaturia village in Rajapur. - The Daily star April 12 2011.
Tinni murder trial begins after
nine years
After nine years, trial of model Syeda Tania Mahbub Tinni murder case began with deposition of her father with a Dhaka court on april 10. Judge Fatema Najeeb of the Seventh Additional District and Sessions Judge's Court recorded part of the statement of her father Syed Mahbub Karim and set May 11 to record his rest of the statement. The trial against the lone accused Golam Faruq Ovi, a former student leader and Jatiya Party MP, began in his absence. On Nov 10, 2002, police recovered Tinni's body from under China-Bangladesh Friendship Bridge over the Buriganga River and a case was filed with Keraniganj Police Station on the same day. - The Daily star April 11 2011.
Assault on bauls
On April 5, Sadhu Sanga, an organisation of bauls, arranged a two-day annual cultural programme at Char Ramnagar village in Pangsa upazila where followers of baul mystic Lalon Shah came from different places including Kushtia, Rajbari and Pabna. Then a group of villagers foiled the programme, assaulted 28 bauls and cut their hair and moustaches following instruction from the imam of a local mosque. The imam aided by a local influential person termed the bauls' programme as 'anti-Islamic' and had the devotees to do touba (repentance) under duress.Mohammad Fakir, 60, a Lalon devotee of the village, yesterday filed a case with Pangsha police station accusing 50 people including 13 named ones in this connection. - The Daily star April 11 2011.
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