Indian SC counsel to move to stop border killings
Colin Gonsalves, a senior counsel of Indian Supreme Court (SC), yesterday said he would take a legal move to release Bangladeshi prisoners in his country and stop killing in Bangladesh-India border.
Many Bangladeshi nationals are now confined in different jails of India and they must be released, he said, adding that after going back to his country he would collaborate with Bangladeshi counsels in this regard.
He told reporters after attending a public lecture on 'Public Interest Litigation and Securing Economic and Social Rights' organised by Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust at Cirdap auditorium in the city.
Colin said border killing is a serious issue and must be stopped. Social movement alongside the legal move is needed to ensure fundamental rights of people, he added.
National Human Rights Commission Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman said national human rights commission, judiciary, and lawyers of India could have taken legal steps to stop such killings but none did so.
Presiding over the meeting, Prof Mizanur also said Bangladeshi judges are giving good directives to protect fundamental and human rights.
But he raised question: “According to a media report, some of the judges kept police standing on the road as punishment. Is this their spirit of human rights?”
AAG MK Rahman, Advocate Subrata Chowdhury, Barrister Sara Hossain, and Nagorik Uddyog chief executive Zakir Hossain also spoke.
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