Bangladesh High Court issues rule over gang-rape of Garo woman
The
High Court on Monday issued a rule asking the authorities to explain by two
weeks as to why the delay of lodging a complaint of the Garo rape victim would
not be declared illegal.
A
division bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Kazi Md. Ejarul Haque Akondo
passed the rule upon a writ petition.
Five
human rights organizations Nari Paksha, Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, Jatiya
Adivasi Parishad, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) and Ain O
Shalish Kendra filed the petition.
The
court also wanted an explanation from the authorities concerned on what reason
action will not be taken against the policemen for making delay in taking the
complaint and for negligence of duties.
It
also wanted to know as to why the rape victim will not be compensated.
The
HC also asked the government to confirm lodging complaints and giving services
to the rape victims.
The
court also sought a compliance report from Home Secretary, Inspector General of
Police and Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner within a month. It also
asked the Home Secretary to issue a gazette notification by one week asking all
the police stations to lodge complaints of any rape victim irrespective of
caste, creed and religion.
It
also sought a list of retired judges, lawyers and women human rights activists
to review the existing laws and procedures to stop sexual harassment and sexual
violence from the rights bodies that filed the petition by May 31.
Earlier
on May 21, a Garo woman was gang-raped on a moving microbus after she was
forcibly taken into the vehicle from near Jamuna Future Park in Dhaka city and
later dropped her at Jashimuddin road.
(Source:
BSS)
Dhaka court adjourns hearing on Khaleda’s graft cases till June 18
A
court in Dhaka on Monday adjourned till June 18 the hearing of Zia Orphanage
and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases against BNP Chairperson, Begum Khaleda Zia
and others.
Judge
Abu Ahmed Jamadar the Special Judges’ Court-3 temporarily set up at Dhaka Alia
Madrasa premises passed the order.
Khaleda
Zia appeared before the court around 10-55 in the morning amid stringent
security measures and left with the completion of the court proceedings around
12noon.
The
court also rejected the defence petition seeking cancellation of the statements
given by the plaintiff and the first prosecution witness after hearing
arguments from both the prosecution and defence.
However,
the court accepted the time petition filed by defence counsel Advocate
Khandoker Mahbub Hossain on the plea of taking preparation for hearing.
Stringent
security measures were taken in and around the court with the deployment of
additional law enforcers including Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Detective
Branch (DB)of police, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to maintain law and order.
Earlier
on April 5, the court gave Khaleda Zia bail in the two graft cases on condition
of her appearance positively before the court on every date.
Anti-Corruption
Commission (ACC) filed the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case on July 3 in 2008
with Ramna Police Station while the Zia Charitable Trust graft case was lodged
with Tejgaon Police Station on August 8, 2011, on charges of misappropriating
money in the name of the trusts.
The
commission filed a charge sheet in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case on August
5 in 2009 against Khaleda Zia, her elder son Tarique Rahman and four others on
charges of embezzling Tk 2.1 crore by forming the Trust which exists only on
paper.
In
accordance with the charge sheet of the Zia Charitable Trust graft case
submitted on January 16, 2012, Khaleda Zia and three others have allegedly
misappropriated Tk 6.19 crore after forming Zia Charitable Trust.
The
Special Judges Court-3 framed charges against Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique
Rahman and others in the two graft cases on March 19 last.
(Source:
BSS)
Dhaka Stock Exchange suffers major technical glitch to open week
Trading
at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) was halted by nearly four hours on Sunday as a
major technical glitch made the market operator unable to begin trading at its
usual 10:30 am opening time.
Bangladesh
Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) Executive Director Mohammad Saifur
Rahman told BSS that the commission was aware about the technical problem and
was expecting a full report from the DSE authorities about the matter in due
course.
“Due
to a technical issue DSE delayed commencement of trade by 3 hours 50 minutes on
24th May 2015. This delayed start resulted in a shorter trading
period of 1 hour 40 minutes compared to 4 hours of normal trading,” DSE said in
a press statement later on the day.
The
stock exchange also regretted the disruption of trading that caused
inconvenience to all market participants.
DSE
said that the technical issue caused delay in disseminating trade related
information to some brokers beyond acceptable limits, and thus the brokers were
put at a disadvantaged position compared to its peer group.
“In
order to prevent this situation arising, DSE took the decision to delay trading
till all market participants had equal opportunities to trade”, the statement
said.
It
further said that DSE and its international technology partners worked in three
jurisdictions to resolve this issue and to open trading facility as soon as
possible.
The
combined effort of all those involved has resulted in market opening at 2:20 pm
for all brokers, albeit for a truncated trading session of 1 hour and 40
minutes till 4pm.
The
shorter than usual trading session recorded transaction volume of 8.58 crore
shares worth Taka 343.17 crore, which was more than 50 percent lower than the
volume and value of a normal trading session.
The
decline in daily transaction caused fall in the two selective indices, but the
broader DSEX index managed to finish the day marginally up at 4484.62, with
DS30 and DSES closing down at 1682.44 and 1081.40 respectively.
Prices
of 108 stocks advanced on the day against 164 declining stocks, while 28
remained unchanged. Power Grid, SA Port, Rupali Bank, ICB Sonali 1stMF and Saif
Power were the day’s major gainers.
The
major gaining sectors were bank, fuel and power, engineering and miscellaneous
when the major losing sectors were textile, telecom, mutual fund and ceramic.
Among the major lagging securities were Family Tex, Beximco, Zaheen Spin, 7th
ICB and Republic Insurance.
UPGDCL
topped the turnover list followed by KPCL, Saif Power, SA Port, BSCCL, UPGDCL
and Ifad Autos.
Normal
trading DSE will resume tomorrow (Monday) on schedule time at 10:30 am.
Chittagong
Stock Exchange (CSE) began the week at its normal scheduled and closed the
session positive. The general CSCX index finished the day up at 8458.35 though
most of issues traded closed lower. Prices of 128 securities declined on the
day against 80 advancing and 27 static issues.
Some
2.35 crore shares worth Taka 81.32 crore changed hands on the day. (Source:
BSS)
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