Justice delayed
"Dirgho-din rayer copy na-pawaya bichar-prarthider charom voganti" meaning "Sufferings of justice seekers for non-receiving of copies of verdicts" was a news headline of a Bangla daily on 19 July 2010. We remember, immediately after assuming office, the present Chief Justice vowed to deliver justice to all. He especially emphasized the poor whom he promised voluntary services from lawyers to deliver justice to their doors. The above headline is contrary to what we heard from him. Now the justice seekers have taken to the streets not for justice but for copies of pronouncements of verdicts which they might have heard on the concluding day of a case. These pronouncements might have come to them, may be after several years of ordeal in lower courts and then to the High Court.
Where will the people then go for justice? When will they be relieved of sufferings from court cases? Correctly, the sayings in Bangladesh "if you want to punish your rival lodge a court case against him", most appropriate blow. The prime minister promised a change to the nation, has she deleted change in the judicial department? if she has done so, she should include it in her list of changes.
I am not concerned about the big ones whose cases are for restarting of their business houses, I am talking about the poor who have lost their lands to the grabbers, who have been implicated by the powerful and so on. Why does it take so much time to deliver a copy of a concluded verdict?
We are really worried about the future of our native land.
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