Corruption & crime
After the 1/11 changeover, the Anti-Corruption Commission could investigate corruption cases and it successfully apprehended many corrupt politicians, businessmen, and government officials. During the two years of caretaker admin only a few could be tried in special courts set up by the administration and delivered punishments ranging from 13 to 40 years imprisonments in different cases. The rest of the cases could not be completed due to time constraint of the caretaker regime.
After the installation of the new elected government, all of them have been set free by the court while the under trial cases were either quashed or stayed by the lower courts. The present government is withdrawing many cases declaring those corruption cases as "politically motivated". The situation is such that no one will be further tried and ever punished.
It is hard to believe that there was no corruption before 1/11 in our country and the persons who were charge-sheeted by the ACC during the CTG were not involved in any sort corruption.
If such is the case that there was no corruption before the period of 1/11, on what pretext the TIB declared Bangladesh as the "most corrupt nation". I suggest the present sue the TIB for trial in the international court for tarnishing the image of Bangladesh!
The common people do not believe that the people whose cases are being quashed are clean of and have not done anything wrong in the past. This situation of mistrust between the government and the people is not a healthy one. Our courts are finding no evidences of corruption against these people due to weak prosecution and faulty charges. It is therefore wise, at the moment, that the courts be allowed to investigate the charges by their own investigators to find truths and punish the wrong doers.
Otherwise, we will never be able to eradicate massive corruption.
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