Court sanctity trampled
This kind of headline in the country's major English daily like DS which is widely read by interested readers including foreigners reflects the environment prevailing in the Bangladesh courts and the quality of lawyers. The lawyers supporters of a political party are out to save their corrupt leaders resorting to violence in the courtroom instead of going through the judicial process. The question now arises how did they know beforehand that their leader will not get fair justice in the court? Through their unjust violence, the people got to know that the leader is guilty and she is trying to evade judicial process and opted for wrong path of igniting unrest among her blind supporters to save her.
We believe, all cases including those against the leaders of BNP, should follow the normal judicial process. If this cannot be ensured, one day, everyone in Bangladesh including the murderers who have public support will resort to this practice and Bangladesh will be a place of no justice and our courtrooms will be places of slogans and shouting. We condemn the lawyers and believe the govt will ensure transparent, fair trial of the case against the BNP leader.
All the evidences should be made public so that people including her supporters could see and get satisfied with the verdict.
Our judicial system has already proved its quality by concluding a 35-year old case.
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