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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