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LAW & PUBLIC MOnDAy,<br />

JAnuAry <strong>28</strong>, 2<strong>01</strong>9<br />

5<br />

This week Your Legal Adviser is<br />

A.B.M Shahjahan Akanda (Masum)<br />

Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh.<br />

He is the Head of the chamber of a renowned law firm,<br />

namely, 'Law for Nations', which has expertise mainly in<br />

banking law, tax law, commercial law, corporate law, family<br />

law, employment and labor law, land law, constitutional law,<br />

criminal law and in conducting litigations before courts of<br />

different hierarchies. He can be reached at - cell: <strong>01</strong>711459590,<br />

E-mail: law.abm@gmail.com.<br />

LegAL Query :<br />

Dear Sir, Assalamu Walaikum,<br />

We have started a voluntary organization to<br />

work on law and legal system of Bangladesh<br />

particularly on youth leadership and preaching of<br />

law. The name of organization is "Law Mate" and<br />

it started its journey in December, 2<strong>01</strong>6. What<br />

should we maintain now and in future to keep its<br />

operation lawfully?<br />

Thanking You.<br />

Chowdhury Tanbir Ahamed Siddique<br />

Co-founder, Law Mate<br />

LegAL OpiniOn-<br />

Thanks for your query. Actually, the registration<br />

process solely depends on the nature and scope of<br />

operation of your organization. If the organization runs<br />

as that of a private organization, then it must have to<br />

obtain registration from the office of the Registrar of<br />

the Joint Stock Companies and Firms (RJSC). Firstly,<br />

you need to apply for name clearance from RJSC. If the<br />

name of your organization is available or if the name is<br />

not similar with any other organization, then after<br />

depositing the name clearance fees prescribed by the<br />

authority you can apply for name clearance certificate.<br />

After examining the name of your organization, the<br />

RJSC authority has the discretion to accept or reject<br />

your application. Secondly, after obtaining the name<br />

Safe environment Legal<br />

Human rights<br />

SAyeD CHOwDHury<br />

Both of two school and Madrasah has<br />

sufferer for unconditional waste<br />

management in Dhaka Mymenshing<br />

Highway on the river side of<br />

Lobolong sagor at sub cannel of<br />

Dukhola khal. The students of the<br />

two educational institutes are<br />

passing class time by the inadequate<br />

difficulties. To great Loss of this<br />

waste is the agricultural land of<br />

Lallong Sea, the navigability of the<br />

Lallong Sea, the health of the people<br />

of side of the lobolong sea river and<br />

underground water also!<br />

Sustainable development on one<br />

side and pollution on the other side,<br />

is not a equal of sustainable<br />

development! Due to despondency at<br />

the time of modern and digital timea<br />

municipality has to enter the waste<br />

hill! For children rights to cure life.<br />

waste shall be managed way to very<br />

smoothly and to take necessary step<br />

to waste recycling by the authorities.<br />

Environmental law says; No<br />

Organic, Hazardous waste to keep in<br />

a open space or the road side area.<br />

But The actual picture is different.<br />

Road side waste dumping is common<br />

picture in Bangladesh. Many student,<br />

patient, old men to cross the road<br />

side and they are feeling very<br />

uncomfortable and very uneasiness<br />

that the bad smell of waste.<br />

That is why both the schools of<br />

Sreepur and the children of<br />

madrasha stood in the streets Dhaka<br />

Mymenshing High way by pressing<br />

the nose in protest. It's Our shame!<br />

Now waste is biggest problem in<br />

our country as well as whole of the<br />

world! So very short time to be take<br />

necessary step to management of<br />

waste to right way. Similarly We<br />

hope very firstly The dirt on the canal<br />

branch of the Lobolong canal will be<br />

removed from the scheduled place<br />

only for children, patient, students,<br />

agriculture and human health.<br />

Upazila Corruption Prevention<br />

Committee, Nodi Poribrajok Dol and<br />

Student & Human link arrange a<br />

Human Wall to protect badly waste<br />

fall in Dhaka to Mymensing<br />

Highway!<br />

clearance certificate, you have to apply for registration.<br />

In the registration process, first thing is to prepare<br />

memorandum of assocoation and articles of<br />

association, where you also have to mention the<br />

executive committee by whom the entire organization<br />

will run.<br />

Thirdly, after successfully submission of the<br />

necessary documents before the RJSC authority, the<br />

authority will forward the file to National Security<br />

Intelligence (NSI) for clearance. Then the NSI will<br />

investigate your office, your executive committee, the<br />

motto of the organization etc. If the NSI authority<br />

satisfied that the information submitted before the<br />

RJSC are true and the motto of the of the organization<br />

does not conflict with the social norms & values and<br />

also there is no possibility to to do any act which would<br />

be treated as anti-social or anti-state activities, then<br />

they may provide clearance certificate. Finally, after<br />

obtaining the NSI clearance certificate, you will obtain<br />

the registration from the office of the Registrar of the<br />

Joint Stock Companies and Firms (RJSC).<br />

However, if you intend to accumulate foreign funds at<br />

a later point of time then registration as a private<br />

limited company or an NGO would be most feasible<br />

options for you. For registration as an NGO they have<br />

to apply to the NGO affairs bureau. There also is<br />

prescribed form for application.For social service type<br />

activities, your Law Mate should be registered from<br />

Department of Social Service. An application in the<br />

prescribed format shall have to be submitted before the<br />

review board.<br />

In fine, this is the prescribed steps you need to follow.<br />

To join and stand on the streets of<br />

the children is essentially to use the<br />

law properly. Because they want to<br />

get safe, clean environment.<br />

The big responsibility here is to<br />

elected representatives. Should be a<br />

model project run in this country to<br />

proper waste management and then<br />

that is the way to future for our next<br />

healthy generation.<br />

Our government want to<br />

sustainable development. So we want<br />

to get solve our problem from our<br />

government. The children and<br />

students are both of organization is<br />

waiting to fresh air, fresh water and<br />

also clean environment. The Ministry<br />

of Education, Department of<br />

Environment and the Ministry of<br />

Environment and Forests are<br />

applying for the solution to find ways<br />

to solve the problem.<br />

Executive Member of Upazila<br />

Corruption Prevention Committee<br />

And Chemist<br />

Sreepur, Gazipur.<br />

Mail: aschowdhury88@gmail.com<br />

The Transgenders right<br />

KAMruL HASSAn (nAzMuL)<br />

A person whose self-identity does<br />

not confirm unambiguously to<br />

conventional notions of male or<br />

female gender we may called<br />

transgender or mostly common<br />

word Hijra. According to medical<br />

eyes, they are such persons whose<br />

body does not confirm to<br />

'arbitrarily qualified' criteria either<br />

that of male or female physique and<br />

thus, confusing only so far their sex<br />

is concerned but are human beings.<br />

Therefore, being a creation of the<br />

Almighty there is no reason of not<br />

treating them as human having<br />

rights, liabilities and other<br />

privileges that naturally come<br />

along. Rightly, though from the<br />

beginning of the 20th century,<br />

countries of the then British-India,<br />

Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and<br />

India began to recognize them as<br />

third gender .<br />

The transgender or third gender<br />

and other words in all of them most<br />

familiar word is hijra that the word<br />

'hijra' comes from Semitic Arabic<br />

root through Urdu-Hindustani<br />

word means 'leaving one's tribe'<br />

(Alhawary & Benmamoun, 2005)<br />

in Bangladesh<br />

amuse people of a royal palace. It is<br />

also found in the same scripture<br />

that Ahiravana offers his life blood<br />

to goddess Kali (the goddess of<br />

power) to ensure the victory of the<br />

Pandavas and was granted the<br />

boon but as his last wish wanted to<br />

marry. As no woman would marry<br />

a man who is going to die within a<br />

few hours, Lord Krishna assumes<br />

the form of a woman and marries<br />

him. The hijras of south India<br />

claims that Ahiravana is their<br />

progenitor and call themselves<br />

aravanis. In the Ramayana, hijras<br />

are granted a boon by Rama as a<br />

reward of their devotion and<br />

possessed the ability to confer<br />

blessings to newborns and<br />

newlyweds. In Islam, no different<br />

rules are found by which hijras can<br />

practice the religion. In this<br />

subcontinent hijras incorporate<br />

Hinduism or Hindu culture.<br />

Nevertheless, these hijras do not<br />

hold lower status as Muslims than<br />

the Muslim men and women<br />

(Reddy, 2005).<br />

The Constitution of Bangladesh,<br />

being solemn expression of the<br />

peoples' will and the supreme law<br />

of the land, recognises and<br />

guarantees its citizens the<br />

fundamental rights in order to<br />

protect their life, liberty and<br />

property. In these endeavours,<br />

sovereign legislate various<br />

municipal laws to ensure 'legal<br />

rights' in line with constitutional<br />

commitments and pledges.<br />

Although, at times they lack behind<br />

or could not leave up to common<br />

expectations and required need,<br />

and this is where the gap exists,<br />

which in most cases, are the cause<br />

of social discontent and<br />

resentment. In the Indian subcontinent,<br />

citizens are governed by<br />

their own personal laws (unlike<br />

western world) in relation to family<br />

matters as well as inheritance and<br />

succession. There is fallacy that<br />

rights of the Hijras are not<br />

specifically defined, specially the<br />

right of inheritance. However,<br />

authoritative jurist by construing<br />

the teaching of Sunnah, Izma and<br />

Qiyas opined that in Islamic<br />

jurisprudence, there are provisions<br />

to determine the gender of such<br />

human beings and once that can be<br />

done, inheritance is matter of<br />

calculation only (since the laws of<br />

inheritance is gender-based under<br />

most of the personal laws).<br />

AHijra will be characterised as a<br />

male when he has sexual<br />

associations with his male<br />

reproductive organ, has capabilities<br />

of nocturnal discharge like men, is<br />

inclined to woman, produces facial<br />

hair and his testimony of his innerself.<br />

On the other hand, when a<br />

Hijra has sexual affairs with her<br />

female reproductive organ,<br />

becomes pregnant, practices<br />

menstruation, experiences growth<br />

of breasts like women along with<br />

lactation will be considered as<br />

female and thus, once the gender<br />

can be determined, the Hijra will<br />

succeed as male or female<br />

accordingly in all cases. However, if<br />

nothing or all of the above<br />

symptoms occurred, then such<br />

person will not be assigned a<br />

gender rather be termed as<br />

hermaphrodite difficulty/<br />

'khunthamushkil' and here exists<br />

difference of opinions amongst<br />

Islamic jurists as to their share of<br />

inheritance [according to Hanafi<br />

School, they always would inherit<br />

lesser of the male or female share,<br />

whichever share is smaller, either<br />

as male or female while Abdullah<br />

bin Abbas (RA) opined that they<br />

will get half of the combined shares<br />

(both as male and female), hence<br />

making it as average share], but no<br />

disagreement on the issue that<br />

Hijras would have rights of<br />

inheritance as discussed above<br />

The Constitution of Bangladesh, being solemn expression<br />

of the peoples' will and the supreme law of the land,<br />

recognises and guarantees its citizens the fundamental rights<br />

in order to protect their life, liberty and property. In these<br />

endeavours, sovereign legislate various municipal laws to<br />

ensure 'legal rights' in line with constitutional commitments<br />

and pledges. Although, at times they lack behind or could<br />

not leave up to common expectations and required need,<br />

and this is where the gap exists, which in most cases, are the<br />

cause of social discontent and resentment.<br />

and has been borrowed into Hindi.<br />

This Indian usage of the term 'hijra'<br />

has been translated into English as<br />

'eunuch' or 'hermaphrodite' which<br />

mainly means irregularity of male<br />

genitalia. Basically they are born<br />

with male physiology; some of<br />

them are born with male intersex<br />

variations (Nanda S. , 1999). Hijras<br />

are considered as 'third gender',<br />

'third sex' or in the language of their<br />

most widely known ethnographer,<br />

Serena Nanda, "Neither men nor<br />

Women". A generic description of<br />

Hijras might read something like<br />

this: they are socio-biological males<br />

who present women-like within a<br />

shifting constellation of meaning.<br />

The frequently derogatory use of<br />

the term Hijra and its synonyms<br />

has contributed to the circulation of<br />

regional terms such as aravani and<br />

kinnar; especially around the<br />

Chennai area, aravani is the<br />

preferred term and kinnar is fast<br />

gaining popularity in northern<br />

india as a form of self-identity<br />

(Puri, 2<strong>01</strong>0). 'Eunuchs',<br />

'transsexuals', 'effeminate men',<br />

and most recently 'transgenders,<br />

these are mobile identities of Hijras<br />

around the world. In two most<br />

celebrated epics (The Mahabharata<br />

and the Ramayana) that are<br />

accepted as scriptures by Hindu<br />

people, two different notions of<br />

hijras are found. In the<br />

Mahabharata, one of the heroes<br />

Arjuna takes up a disguise of a hijra<br />

or eunuch transvestite when he was<br />

in exile and performs dancing to<br />

across contemporary Muslim<br />

world like in Iran, Iraq, Egypt,<br />

Syria, Kuwait etc. and they made<br />

provisions to that effect within their<br />

national legal regime.Under the<br />

Dayabhaga School (prevailing law<br />

in Bangladesh) of Hindu<br />

jurisprudence the inheritance rule<br />

is also gender-based, and<br />

accordingly the same conceive that<br />

as Hijras are not categorised either<br />

as male or female, they remain<br />

excluded from inheriting their<br />

ancestral property.<br />

Bangladesh constitution already<br />

committed to promote, protect and<br />

fulfill the rights of all people<br />

regardless of sexual identity. This is<br />

an excellent decision to recognize<br />

the hijra community as another<br />

gender. But this recognition is<br />

nothing more . In the meantime,<br />

Bangladesh Prime Minister has to<br />

disclose her desire is that only one<br />

Hijra can be member of parliament<br />

on behalf of all Hijra's community<br />

over all country from women<br />

parliamentary reserved seats. Who<br />

will speaks in parliament about<br />

their right, dignity and various<br />

issues. Obviously best decision<br />

for Bangladeshi transgenders<br />

community if would be implement<br />

as well.<br />

The writer is an Advocate<br />

and Columnist,<br />

E-mail: khnazmul.<br />

law@gmail.com

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