Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association on Monday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive to the government to wage a judicial inquiry led by a sitting or former Supreme Court judge into the police brutality on protesters centring a local mediation in Kalihati of Tangail that left four people killed on last Friday.
The writ also sought directive to stop harassment of protesters and the victims of police brutality till disposal of the petition.
The association president Salma Ali filed the petition.
The vacation bench of Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Justice Zafar Ahmed heard the petitioner and attorney general Mahbubey Alam on the day and adjourned the hearing till September 30.
Secretary of home ministry, inspector general of police, deputy inspector general of Dhaka range, additional deputy inspector general (discipline), Tangail deputy commissioner, Tangail superintendent of police and officer-in-charge of Kalihati police station are made respondents to the writ petition.
The court wanted to know from the attorney general about what actually happened on the day. The attorney general informed that a local mediation was arranged in that village over extra-marital relation of a lady with a young man of neighbouring village.
The mediation had stripped off the young man and his mother which enraged the villagers and they went out on protests and police opened fire to keep order, said the attorney general.
He also said the court can summon those who had arranged the mediation since there is Supreme Court rule banning such mediation.
The court also asked the petitioner to inform it whether the court can order the government to form any inquiry commission since there is an act on commissions of inquiry.
The writ also sought directive to stop harassment of protesters and the victims of police brutality till disposal of the petition.
The association president Salma Ali filed the petition.
The vacation bench of Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Justice Zafar Ahmed heard the petitioner and attorney general Mahbubey Alam on the day and adjourned the hearing till September 30.
Secretary of home ministry, inspector general of police, deputy inspector general of Dhaka range, additional deputy inspector general (discipline), Tangail deputy commissioner, Tangail superintendent of police and officer-in-charge of Kalihati police station are made respondents to the writ petition.
The court wanted to know from the attorney general about what actually happened on the day. The attorney general informed that a local mediation was arranged in that village over extra-marital relation of a lady with a young man of neighbouring village.
The mediation had stripped off the young man and his mother which enraged the villagers and they went out on protests and police opened fire to keep order, said the attorney general.
He also said the court can summon those who had arranged the mediation since there is Supreme Court rule banning such mediation.
The court also asked the petitioner to inform it whether the court can order the government to form any inquiry commission since there is an act on commissions of inquiry.
Source: New Age
