Insurgency against judiciary The government sponsored insurgency against judiciary has started in the heart of the capital Dhaka. Recently Bangladesh government’s International Crime Tribunal (ICT) has declared life-term imprisonment for one of the Jamaat –e-Islami’s (JI) central leader Mr. Abdul Qader Molla for alleged serial killings and rapes. Mr. Molla flatly refused any such crime. He also claimed that he was in the rural district of Faridpur in 1971 - far away from the alleged crime spot at Mirpur in Dhaka. The defence team also put the argument that Mr. Abdul Qader joined Dhaka University in 1972 as a residential student and after graduation joined Bangladesh Rifle School as a teacher. Later on, joined a daily newspaper as journalist and become vice president of Dhaka Journalist Union for 2 years. How could it happen that no case was filed against him during the last 40 years’ long period? Abdul Qader Molla’s lawyers claim that their client did not receive any fair trial. It has been a travesty of judgement. Even the human rights organisations in Bangladesh have expressed their serious concerns about the whole judicial procedures. The Bangladesh Awami League (BAL) has put their own people as judge, prosecution lawyer and investigating police officers – which itself kills the neutrality of judicial procedure. But after all this stage-managed drama, the ruling BAL and its left leaning partners are not happy with the judgement. Their demand was nothing less than the plain judicial murder. Since the judges could not fulfil their demand, they have instigated their cadres to launch the current insurgency.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:14:07 +0000
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