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EDITORIAL MOnDAY, MARch 18, 2019 4 new Zealand carnage exposes prejudices Acting Editor & Publisher : Jobaer Alam Telephone: +8802-9104683-84, Fax: 9127103 e-mail: editor@thebangladeshtoday.com Monday, March 18, 2019 Paying tribute to Bangabandhu on his 99th birthday Soon after the completion of 100 greatest Britons poll in 2002, the BBC organized a similar opinion poll to find out who is the greatest Bengali personality in Bengali nation's history of thousand years. In 2004, BBC's Bengali Service conducted the opinion poll with the title Greatest Bengali of all time started from February 11 that continued onto March 22. The poll was participated by Bengalis around the world including from Bangladesh, India (states of West Bengal, Trpura, Assam ) and overseas Bengali communities. A total of 140 nominations were from the poll. BBC started to announce the top 20 names from 26 March declaring one name each day starting from 20th position. On the final day of 14 April 2004, which was also the Pahela Baishakh (Bengali New Year day), BBC announced Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, as the Greatest Bengali of all time voted by Bengalis worldwide. Yesterday (Saturday), Bangladesh observed the birth anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He would have been 99 years old on this day if he lived. Tragically his life was cut short prematurely. On15 August, 1975 he was slain by most heartless killers in the small hours along with nearly all members of his family. It forms possibly the greatest tragedy epic in the modern times of a man so great and honorable being put down by a hail of bullets by some misguided ones of his own people. The killers probably calculated thought that his killing would forever bury his legacy. But they were proved resoundingly to be very wrong for the party which he led triumphantly came back to power in 2009 and in the next year tried his killers and hanged five of them. Six others are absconding abroad from justice. Why the name and fame of Banghabandhu endures so popularly is because he was not merely an individual. Through his unflinching dedication to his cause, matchless patriotism and self sacrifice, he has lived through the decades in people's memory as an iconic personality. Thus, today, he is romanticised and described as a whole splendid revolution himself, an upsurge-the essence of epic poetry and history. His greatness, the vision and promises thrown forth by him, are the source of the inspiration of this Bengali nation. He was a very great friend of the teeming millions of our people. To the nation he is the Father. In the view of men and women in other places and other climes, he is the founder of sovereign Bangladesh. Journalist Cyril Dunn once said of him, "In the thousands of years of history of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujib is the only leader who has, in terms of blood, race, language, culture and birth, been a full-blooded Bengali. His physical stature was immense. His voice was redolent of thunder. His charisma worked magic on people. The courage and charm that flowed from him made him a unique superman in these times." Newsweek magazine called him the poet of politics. Embracing Bangabandhu at the Algiers Non Aligned Summit in 1973, Cuba's Fidel Castro noted, "I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas." Upon hearing the news of Bangabandhu's assassination, former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson wrote to a Bengali journalist, "This is surely a supreme national tragedy for you. For me it is a personal tragedy of immense dimensions." The liberal democratic politics of Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Haque and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy contributed to the moulding of Mujib's character. He was committed to work for the public interest and the national interest with everything he possessed in in his body and soul. He distinguished himself soon in his political career as the strongest advocate of Bengali nationalism. It was this particular passion that led to the rise of his ideology based on Bengali nationalism and for democracy leading to his brilliantly steering the course for the achievement of independent Bangladesh At the United Nations, he was the first man to speak of his dreams, his people's aspiration, in Bangla. The language was, in that swift stroke , recognized by the global community. For the first time after Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel achievement in 1913, Bangla was put on a position of dignity. The multifaceted life of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman cannot be put together in language or colour. The reason is : Mujib was a larger than life titanic figure. It is not possible to hold within the confines of this column the picture or the extent of his greatness. He was the supreme leader in the struggle for our national independence . The greatest treasure of the Bengali nation is preservation of his legacy. He has conquered death. His memory should be an everlasting guide to his countrymen. It was because of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rhman that his countrymen today live completely free in the air of freedom and enjoy unfettered all the opportunities for their self development and progress and their collective advancement as a people and nation. Bangbandhu's activities of a lifetime bestowed these great gifts on his people and the country. Today, Bangladesh is recognized as a rising power in the family of nations. Various projections by world renowned analysts have confidently projected that Bangladesh is destined to be a great economic power house only a decade from now and also a force for the good and welfare of entire mankind. When this happens, Bangladeshis will realize how much they owe to Bangabandhu for setting them on this glorious path. Friday's carnage not only killed 49 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch right in the heart of predominantly non-Muslim New Zealand. The attack came as a powerful reminder of how terror can just not be associated with any one religion. The main attacker - an Australian national - and his associates appeared to be driven mainly by their own perceived values of nationalism. In the past two decades since 9/11, Muslims around the world have borne the brunt of being associated with terrorism. Consequently, many have faced denial of travel visas to western countries, while others who chose to migrate to a western country have faced prejudice in a variety of places. But as country after country chose to build barriers against exposure to Islamic influence, Friday's carnage has squarely ripped apart such prejudices. Ultimately, the bottom line surrounding any or all of these situations has just been one. Behaviour ranging from objectionable to outright offensive can simply not be associated with any one religion. Indeed, the history of Islam clearly outlines the salvation that the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) brought to Arabia more than 14 centuries ago. Ahead of Friday's carnage in New Zealand came a promising sign of progress in peace talks in Afghanistan. The issue remains framed as a divide between the US, a secular country, as opposed to the Taliban in Afghanistan, a predominantly hardline Islamic There are coping strategies for dealing with terrorism and the feeling it is meant to induce, namely terror. One is to tell yourself, it won't happen to me. Following the massacre of 49 people at prayer in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, many non-Muslims might be saying to themselves, if only in a guilty whisper, "I am not Muslim, I'll be OK." Another strategy is to tell yourself, it won't happen here. That's hard, though, for if it can happen in a country that has long seen itself as a serene haven, distant from a turbulent world, then it can surely happen anywhere. And still others may fall back on that perennial reassurance: this was just one deranged individual. The trouble is, that last solace is becoming impossible to sustain. The terrorists of the white supremacist right are telling us as loudly and clearly as they can that we are dealing here not with a handful of sad loners, oddballs or psychopaths, though they may be all of those things, but a global, if diffuse, movement with a core ideology - one that draws strength and succour from political leaders, including those at the very highest level.\ The man suspected of the Christchurch killings could not have been clearer. He literally spelt out his meaning in words and slogans daubed over the murder weapon itself, to say nothing of his supposed manifesto, published online. Through the jumble of incoherent ramblings, the motifs keep leaping out, the nods to those he imagines to be his comrades around the world and throughout history. He is telling us that movement. Yet a careful analysis will show that the long-running dispute in Afghanistan has been fundamentally fuelled by power politics rather than religion. Almost two decades after the US invaded Afghanistan when the Taliban government was driven out, Afghanistan remains far from a peaceful victory. For the US, the Afghan war remains the most expensive battle in history with an expenditure so far of more than $1 trillion (Dh3.67 trillion). Ultimately, the Afghan venture has been nothing short of a clear disaster for US policymakers. Ultimately, a US settlement with the Taliban will ultimately see American troops vacate the central Asian country in return for the Taliban to gain a place in Afghanistan's future ruling structure. New approach required Similarly, other conflict zones have likewise demonstrated that disputes are ultimately settled by the reality of power rather than other considerations such as ideologies or beliefs. In this background following Friday's carnage in New FARhAn BOKhARI Zealand, the world needs to urgently consider a new way of thinking for the management of security and conflict related issues across the world. As commentator after commentator pleaded on Friday, associating terrorism with the community of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims is not just unfair. More pertinently, it defies the all too visible reality which is vital to assess the way forward in global affairs. At the very least, it is vital for the preeminent global body, the United Nations, to urgently consider reforms including a greater say for Islamic countries in the General Assembly and Ultimately, the bottom line surrounding any or all of these situations has just been one. Behaviour ranging from objectionable to outright offensive can simply not be associated with any one religion. Indeed, the history of Islam clearly outlines the salvation that the Prophet Mohammad (PBUh) brought to Arabia more than 14 centuries ago. he is no faraway one-off, but one of many in Europe and the US who have a worldview - and mean to see it implemented. The title of his 74-page document is The Great Replacement. That's the doctrine long advanced by the pan- European Generation Identity movement, which holds that the white, Christian population is under threat from a deliberate effort to replace it through Muslim immigration. It's the same idea that echoed around the pageant of neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen through Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 - the one praised by Donald Trump as including "some very fine people" - where marchers chanted "White lives matter", and "Jews will not replace us". Those men carrying torches in the Virginia summer do not believe that the US is about to become a majority Jewish country: rather they imagine a Jewish plot to replace the white population with a black, brown or Muslim one. Note how the Christchurch suspect referred to Muslim immigrants, many of them the Security Council. Side by side, Islamic countries also need to re-vitalise the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), their main global body to press for concrete reforms geared towards tackling prejudices against Muslims. On the side, Islamic countries must also intensify their economic ties to increase internal trade and exchange of ideas to collaborate increasingly on education and scientific endeavours. Such ideas however must not work JOnAThAn FReeDLAnD refugees from some of the world's most appalling violence, as "invaders" - the same word used to describe Muslims by Robert Bowers, who shot dead 11 Jews at prayer at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh last October. Bowers seems to have targeted that specific community because it was deeply committed to voluntary work resettling refugees, many of them Muslims. To Bowers, that looked like evidence of "the great replacement" in action. The Christchurch suspect also pays homage to other killers of the far right, including Darren Osborne, who attacked London's Finsbury Park mosque in 2017, killing a worshipper; Dylann Roof, who gunned down nine African-Americans churchgoers in Charleston; and, inevitably, the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik. There are two key points to make here. First, we need to pursue, discuss and think about these killers the same way we do their violent Islamist counterparts, who they resemble so closely. After 9/11, we instantly understood every Islamist attack as part of a global terrorist towards isolating the global community of Islamic countries from non-Islamic ones. On the contrary, such deeper engagement must work side by side with deepening relations between Islamic countries working as a bloc and other countries of the world. Friday's carnage in New Zealand was not the first of its kind in recent memory where a community or group of Muslims were targeted violently. In the heat of the moment, it would be natural for many Muslims to feel outraged. But as sanity returns as it must eventually, it would be important for members of Muslim communities worldwide to reengage with non-Muslims with renewed vigour. In seeking to either solidify existing bridges of friendship or building new ones, community members including mosque leaders must emphasise that violence by a few must not colour the way Muslims view wider communities across countries where they have migrated. Ultimately, it will be important to repeatedly emphasise the message of peace as communicated by the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in revealing the message of Islam. Today, more than ever before, it is vital for Muslims to return to that message and use it as their singular point of convergence. Following Friday's deeply painful occurrence in Christchurch it is essential for Muslims to move forward with a message of peace to emphasise yet again the true spirit of Islam. Source : Gulf News It’s time we must confront the right’s hate preachers Technology was supposed to solve some of the world's biggest problems. Connect everyone to the Internet, it was once assumed, and democracy would follow. Collect enough data, and all of our questions would be answered. Put everything online, and algorithms would do the rest. The world would practically run itself. Instead, we now know that digital technology can be used to undermine democracy; that it raises more questions than it answers; and that a world that runs itself seems more like an Orwellian nightmare scenario than a noble goal. But while technology isn't the solution, it isn't really the problem either; our singleminded focus on it is. Consider the experience of the media industry, where the digital revolution has wreaked havoc on prevailing business models over the past decade. Publishers and editors responded by putting all their faith in technology: tracking all manner of metrics, embracing data journalism, hiring video teams, and opening podcast studios. More recently, media organizations have shifted their attention toward artificial-intelligence solutions that track audience preferences, automatically produce desired content and translations, alert journalists to breaking news, and much more. In the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism's latest annual report on media trends, 78% of There are two key points to make here. First, we need to pursue, discuss and think about these killers the same way we do their violent Islamist counterparts, who they resemble so closely. After 9/11, we instantly understood every Islamist attack as part of a global terrorist problem; we did not probe too deeply into the psychology of each killer, wondering when exactly they went off the rails. ALexAnDRA BORchARDT respondents in a non-representative survey of international media leaders said they planned to invest more in AI this year. But the final frontier in the quest to save journalism, many believe, is the blockchain - the distributed ledger technology that underpins cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. That remains to be seen: The first attempt to leverage the blockchain to free journalists from ad-driven business models, by Civil Media Company, had a bumpy start. There is nothing wrong with using technology to solve problems, including those created by technology, or to give a company a competitive edge. That is what The Washington Post, for example, has been doing in the six years since Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos purchased it (at a time when it was hemorrhaging money and shedding jobs). But not even the most advanced tech will save the media industry, or anybody else, if there is no regard for the people using it. And that does not mean just audiences. After years of chasing the latest tech trends, the media industry is increasingly confronting burnout among existing management and staff, and a shrinking pool of new talent. According to the Reuters Institute report, some 60% of media leaders are concerned about burnout on their teams, and 75% now worry about retaining and attracting staff. Another report, Lucy Kueng's Going Digital. A Roadmap for Organizational Transformation, shows that middle managers, in particular, have been exiting the industry. This should not be surprising. Journalists have always faced pressure in managing the churn of time-sensitive, demanding, and constantly changing news situations. But in the past, they could at least count on the news organizations that employed them problem; we did not probe too deeply into the psychology of each killer, wondering when exactly they went off the rails. We weren't, frankly, that interested in the state of their mental health. We understood them as part of a global phenomenon that had to be fought hard - with both strength and ingenuity. Now we must do the same with this murderous form of white supremacism, which has brought pain and bloodshed to every corner of the world. We should emulate a second understanding derived from the struggle against violent [holy war]. Most, including those on the political right, were quick to accept that not all those implicated in that movement were themselves involved in violence. The guilt of some - we called them hate preachers - arose from their advancement and legitimation of extremist ideas, radicalising young men (almost always men) who then took up arms. If that logic applies to Islamist violence, it should also certainly apply to the threat from far-right, white supremacist terrorism. And who exactly are the hate preachers this time? There are loudmouth pundits and rabble-rousers one could name, but more important are those right-wing populist politicians who are advancing across the democratic world - many of them aiming to make great gains in May's elections to the European parliament. Source : Guardian Journalism’s risky tech attraction According to the Reuters Institute report, some 60% of media leaders are concerned about burnout on their teams, and 75% now worry about retaining and attracting staff. Another report, Lucy Kueng's Going Digital. A Roadmap for Organizational Transformation, shows that middle managers, in particular, have been exiting the industry. to offer stability and consistency. Now, they must also navigate relentless, techdriven organizational change - often poorly explained and hastily introduced. The level of uncertainty can drive away even the most loyal staff. To be sure, change is unavoidable; the digital age demands constant adaptation. But making needed adjustments without destroying morale requires implementing a people-oriented approach. This is not a straightforward process. For tech solutions, managers can attend shiny digital conferences, take some sales team's advice, sign a contract, and dump the new tools on their newsrooms. With people, they have to listen carefully, acquire an indepth understanding of the problem, and then devise their own strategy. A good place to start is leadership. In any industry, the key responsibilities of an organization's leaders include making their employees feel secure and appreciated. That means paying attention to employees' needs and fostering an organizational culture that provides them with a sense of belonging and purpose. A similar approach must be applied to audiences. Not even the most accurate metrics can provide the needed guidance, if nobody understands what they actually mean, why they were chosen, or what their psychological impact would be (on audiences or staff). Source : Asia Timnes
LAW & PUBLIC MOnDAy, MARch 18, 2019 5 QueRy : Dear Sir, I am a non-resident Bangladeshi, now residing at Germany. I am living here since 2001 with my wife & two children, now I got the citizenship here. On 2007 I bought a piece of land measuring 5.00 decimal at Jowar Sahara Mouja, Gulshan, Dhaka, maintaining all the legal formalities. Now I want to sell that property urgently, but now it is quite difficult for me to go Bangladesh for the purpose of sale the property. But I heard from some of my friends that I can sell my property from abroad also. Please inform me the details. Regards, KabirRaihan Germany. OPiniOn : Thank you for your query. Yes, you can sell your property from abroad by executing a foreign power of attorney deed.A foreign power of attorney is a deed/document whereby a person, living in abroad, appoints another person, known as an agent or attorneyin-fact, to act on his behalf.A power of attorney deed is a written authorization to represent or act on another's behalf in private affairs, business, legalmatters or even on property matters. Firstly, you need to select a person who is residing at This week Your Legal Adviser is A.B.M Shahjahan Akanda (Masum) Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He is the Head of the chamber of a renowned law firm, namely, 'Law for Nations', which has expertise mainly in banking law, tax law, commercial law, corporate law, family law, employment and labor law, land law,constitutional law, criminal law and in conducting litigations before courts of different hierarchies. He can be reached at - cell:01711459590, E-mail: law.abm@gmail.com. Bangladesh and who is eligible and interested to receive the power of attorney of your schedule property. In such cases you can select your parents, siblings etc. as your power of attorney receiver or attorney-in-fact. Then you have to contact with your lawyer to accomplish the whole procedure of the foreign power of attorney. Secondly, your lawyer will prepare the foreign power of attorney deed and will mail it to you at Germany. Then you will have to execute the deed in front of the Consulate General of embassy of Bangladesh, Rome, Italy and you need to back the deed to your lawyer at Bangladesh. Thirdly, after receiving, the documents must have to submit before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh, and then they will check the genuineness of the executant and after satisfaction will make attestation the documents. Fourthly, those documents will be required to submit before Treasury Office and treasury office will send the file to ministry of foreign affairs again for inspection and also to concern AC land office for inspecting the genuineness of the property. Thereafter, availing the inspection report from Ministry and AC Land office, the Treasury officer if satisfied will give the permission to attach treasury stamp. Finally, after obtaining the permission from treasury officer, the foreign power of attorney deed must have to be registered with the concern Sub Registrar Office. After completing the registration process, you can sell the property and on behalf of you, the attorney-in-fact will execute the sale deed of your schedule land. Why the victims of torture are not getting justice in Bangladesh Women’s Property Right in Muslim Law Few days ago we faced international women's day when we talked about several women's rights. Like women's freedom of expression, freedom of movement, women's power, freedom of choice etc. Before talking about those rights we have to ensure women's economical independence. FOr economical independence women can get job, can do business etc but for doing those things women need to have such amount of property which every man already getting. That is inheritance from family. Most of our families avoid and ignore our women to hold their inheritance property. I think, women should fight for this first, then others freedom will come automatically. Let's know how much women can get inheritance from their family according to Muslim Law. wife: If husband of any wife have died with leaving his property, the wife will get some of them as inheritence. There is some condition. If there is no child then wife will get one forth of the whole property. But when there are any child then she will get one eighth of such entire property of her husband. If the deceased person have multi wife then such one forth or one eighth property will be distributed between then (wives). Like there is no child but wives are double, then wives are entitled for one forth but each wife will get one eighth. Mother: Mothers are also entitle for property of her deceased child. when deceased person have child or his son has child or he has two or more sibling then his mother will get one sixth of whole property. But when deceased person have no child or no child of his son or sibling not more then one, then mother will get one third of the entire property. Again, when deceased person's father and husband/ wife are alive then after giving spouse, mother will get one third of rest property. For example, deceased person's father and his/her spouse are alive then at first such spouse will get property first then mother will get one third of rest property. Need to understand, not one third of whole property, one third of rest property which will be rest after giving spouse. Grandmother: Grandmother also a sharer as inheritance of deceased person. Paternal grandmother (mother of father) will get one sixth of deceased person's property. But there is a condition. Mother of deceased person must be die. Another interesting condition is if father of deceased person is alive, he must get some portion of his death child's property. So if father is alive then paternal grandmother will not get any property. One sixth property will go to maternal grandmother (mother of mother). Daughter: Daughter are entitle for property of their died father. If there is no son and daughter is single then she will get half of the whole property. But when son is absent but daughters are multi then daughters are entitle for two third of entire property. Two third will be distributed between all the daughters. But when daughter and son both are present, then daughter will get half of she brother like daughter:son=1:2 Daughter of son: Granddaughter can get property from her grandparents if deceased person has no son, no daughter and no grandson. In that situtaion she will get half of the property if she is alone. But when granddaughters are more than one, then they will two third of the property and will be distributed between them equally. exception: If deceased person has only one daughter, then granddaughter will get one sixth of the whole property. Sister: when deceased person has no son, no daughter, no grandson, no granddaughter, no brother, no father then sister will get half of her brothers property. If sisters are more then one then they will get two third of the property and that will be distributed between them equally. Step sister: Setp sisers are two kinds. One is father is same but mother different, another is mother is same but father different. Let's see when father is same mother different. when deceased person have no son, no daughter, no grandson, no granddaughter, no brother, no sister, no step brother(mothers are different), no father, then step sister will get half of the property if she is alone. But when step sisters are more than one, they will get two third of the property and that will be distributed between them equally. exception: when sister is alone, then step sister will get one sixth of the entire property. Now step sister when mother is same fathers are different. This step sister will get one sixth of the deceased person's property. But condition is deceased person have no ancestors from his or her father and no incoming generation from his or her child. when in our country all the women will get their inheritance property properly, then our women will be independent and our country will be economically independent. I wanna say, if you give me a economically independent mother, I will give you a independent nation. Writer : Chowdhury Tanbir Ahamed Siddique Legal Researcher Email: tanbir921535513@gmail.com Mobile: 01921 53 55 13 IN existing real scenario of Bangladesh, it is so difficult to lodge a complaint and prove the allegation on torture, perpetrated by law and security personnel of the country. Article 35 (5) of Constitution of the People Republic of Bangladesh strictly prohibits not only torture but also all form of cruel behavior, punishment or treatment. But section 197 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cr. P.C) of Bangladesh provides safeguard to the countries officials who are restored to violence in their official capacity when demanded by circumstances. The obstacle to lodge a complaint against law and other security personnel begins from the initial stage of filing case. when the victim tries to loge a First Information Report (FIR) against the law and security personnel with the concerned police station, the duty officer denies straight away registering the FIR. Similarly, when the victims of torture try to lodge a complaint with the concerned court, it is always denied by the court excusing the mandatory section 197 of Criminal Procedure Code, which pre-sanctions the government to bring allegation against the government servant with the court. Most of the magistrates of in criminal court are bogged down as they are not being up to date about the high court rule, order or judgment passed on different problems. They do not have the knowledge that the high court's ruling dismissed the old notion on the old usages of the Cr.P.C section 197. Most of the practicing lawyers are also not appropriately trained or have enough knowledge or confidence to lodge a complaint against the law and security personnel. They do not know that they can lodge case against perpetrators (law and security personnel). Although some of the lawyer did hear about possibility to lodge complaint against the doers, they do not have practical experience. At the case of Rokeya Begum Vs Shafikur Rahman , reported on 2 BCR page no. 04 where the High Court Division of Supreme Court has issued the following rule: " No sanction under section 197 of Criminal Procedure Code is necessary for taking cognizance of the offence alleged in the case, even if the police officer and involved police constable committed the offence while setting or purporting to act in the discharge of official duty. Protection of section 197 is not available to accused police officials as available to other public servants." Question of compulsory bribing is another pre condition from police side which leads the case ending up in a fiasco. Again there has been witness and complainant intimidation by both the law and security personnel and influential political leaders. Some of the filing lawyers (advocate of the victim) are being influenced by the perpetrators. Sometime the filing lawyer develops ill connection with the perpetrators. The next point of hurdles for providing the case against perpetrators is the police himself. with the rule of procedure victim usually lodge complaints against law and security personnel in the court of law, the incumbent Magistrate sent this case to police official for investigation and asked him to submit the report in the court within a stipulated time. It is usually seen that the responsible investigating officer submits a distorted or concocted report to the concerned court. That is one of the most important reasons why victims of torture are not getting justice in Bangladesh. People in Bangladesh ordinary see that police are given bribery by the citizens either voluntarily or forcefully (except for few) is legal. Besides that, we can see that the police are also providing bribery to the complainant. Victims who want justice through the courts, the accused perpetrators find a way to cool down the complainant through bribery. The perpetrators also try to intimidate the complainant to withdraw the case by threatening and also implicating with series of false cases. Moreover, lengthy, time consuming, complicated, expensive court proceeding, difficulties in collecting medical evidence, lack of co-operation from civil society and elites of the community with the lawyer is also creating obstacle to get justice of torture victim. Recently a new law has been enacted which mandates suspension of the accused from service during investigation into the charges, regardless of whether the suspect is a member of a regular law-enforcement agency, the armed forces, or any other government office. For deaths in custody, the accused can be sentenced to a maximum life term in jail and be fined. The law also provides for monetary compensation to be paid to the victim by the convict. For torture in custody, the law warrants five years' rigorous imprisonment and a fine. The law mandates that investigations into cases of torture will have to be completed within 90 days of registration of a complaint, and the trial will have to be completed within 180 days. The law also allows the Bangladesh courts to take cognisance of a crime based on the complaint a person makes to the court, and mandates the court to direct a medical examination of the complainant. But still there is no example to get remedy applying this new law due to unconscious of general mass and victim of torture even lawyer about the act and its proper application. Writer : Shahanur Saikot young human rights defender & lawyer, Justice Makers Fellow, Switzerland Email: saikotbihr@gmail.com, Blog: www.shahanur.blogspot.com
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