Readers Respond
Here are some comments that came in response to Saturday's The Daily Star report headlined “Suranjit slates role of home ministry”
Anonymous
President should resign on moral ground. Anonymous
It was the President who gave the clemency and he could reject the recommendation sent by the Home Ministry. Anonymous
The political leaders in Bangladesh are kind-hearted persons. They even pardon the multiple killers (if they are their own people). Dr. Nazmul Haq
I would like to ask Mr. Sen Gupta whether the president of Bangladesh has the capacity to read the files sent to his office for his signature and ask question about the content of the files which he is signing, or not. Mahmood
I wish the government showed 25 percent of this mercy to our poor one-legged Limon. His leg actually was taken away from him by the government. I wonder if Limon was more dangerous criminal than this murderer who walks freely now! Kabir Ahmad
Suranjit Sen Gupta urged not to blame President Zillur Rahman for granting clemency to Biplob and criticised the Home Ministry for not discussing with Law Ministry. But it was not clear whether this recommendation was submitted to the President directly from the Home Ministry or through the PM. In any way neither the President nor the Prime Minister can be excused for such injustice. This was unfair. M. Talukdar
Clemency to a convicted murderer without proper procedures and justifications is another nail in the coffin of rule of law in Bangladesh. It has exposed flaws in legal and administrative systems of Bangladesh. No country can flourish and no government can govern effectively with this kind of deficiencies. Instead of looking for guilt, we should look for structural solutions of these pitfalls in our system. Tomal
Whoever is responsible for granting this clemency doesn't matter. It is true that a killer has been granted it; the family of Nurul Islam is deprived of justice and it is regretful that even the Prime Minister herself defended it terming it as a politically motivated case. The government must review this clemency for the sake of justice and political stability. OpeeMonir
Is Suranjit Sen a middleman to negotiate between the government functionaries and President's office? People are not stupid. We all know that the procedure is such. But President should look at the merit of each individual case. He just cannot sign it blindly simply saying that it did not go well with the people. A concerned Citizen
Suranjit made this statement the way elders sometimes try to console disappointed toddlers just as a precautionary measure to avoid any further demotion. Everybody knows that such a matter can not reach the President's Office without being routed through PM's office. And this belief has been further strengthened by the PM herself by defending the pardon publicly on the ground of 'politically motivated conviction'. Had Suranjit been sincere enough on this issue? He would have rather suggested to sorting out a way on sealing the very constitutional loophole which might lead the country's highest office to face such embarrassment.
President should resign on moral ground. Anonymous
It was the President who gave the clemency and he could reject the recommendation sent by the Home Ministry. Anonymous
The political leaders in Bangladesh are kind-hearted persons. They even pardon the multiple killers (if they are their own people). Dr. Nazmul Haq
I would like to ask Mr. Sen Gupta whether the president of Bangladesh has the capacity to read the files sent to his office for his signature and ask question about the content of the files which he is signing, or not. Mahmood
I wish the government showed 25 percent of this mercy to our poor one-legged Limon. His leg actually was taken away from him by the government. I wonder if Limon was more dangerous criminal than this murderer who walks freely now! Kabir Ahmad
Suranjit Sen Gupta urged not to blame President Zillur Rahman for granting clemency to Biplob and criticised the Home Ministry for not discussing with Law Ministry. But it was not clear whether this recommendation was submitted to the President directly from the Home Ministry or through the PM. In any way neither the President nor the Prime Minister can be excused for such injustice. This was unfair. M. Talukdar
Clemency to a convicted murderer without proper procedures and justifications is another nail in the coffin of rule of law in Bangladesh. It has exposed flaws in legal and administrative systems of Bangladesh. No country can flourish and no government can govern effectively with this kind of deficiencies. Instead of looking for guilt, we should look for structural solutions of these pitfalls in our system. Tomal
Whoever is responsible for granting this clemency doesn't matter. It is true that a killer has been granted it; the family of Nurul Islam is deprived of justice and it is regretful that even the Prime Minister herself defended it terming it as a politically motivated case. The government must review this clemency for the sake of justice and political stability. OpeeMonir
Is Suranjit Sen a middleman to negotiate between the government functionaries and President's office? People are not stupid. We all know that the procedure is such. But President should look at the merit of each individual case. He just cannot sign it blindly simply saying that it did not go well with the people. A concerned Citizen
Suranjit made this statement the way elders sometimes try to console disappointed toddlers just as a precautionary measure to avoid any further demotion. Everybody knows that such a matter can not reach the President's Office without being routed through PM's office. And this belief has been further strengthened by the PM herself by defending the pardon publicly on the ground of 'politically motivated conviction'. Had Suranjit been sincere enough on this issue? He would have rather suggested to sorting out a way on sealing the very constitutional loophole which might lead the country's highest office to face such embarrassment.
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