Violation of human rights
Saif, Dept. Of Law, Islamic University, Kushtia
We are the people of the democratic state of Bangladesh. But in every sphere, human rights are being downtrodden by the government. The recent blanket arrests were one such example of gross violation of human rights. Our constitution assures that, "Every citizen shall have the right to move freely throughout Bangladesh." But by violating this supreme law the police arrested people, without any justifiable cause or charges, from bus stops, river terminals and even from footpaths. According to the comments of the victims, they were arrested for only coming to Dhaka. They were asked to show their identify cards but most of them didn't have any. It was an abuse of Section 54 of the CrPC and section 86 of the DMP Act. The Supreme Court had directed the government to amend the Section 54 of the CrPC and issued the ruling that law enforcers apply it with caution. But still now no move for amending it has been made by the government.The most appalling things took place in the police stations. There was no food, water and space for the victims. How could we expect such kind of behaviour from a democratic government? We, the people of Bangladesh, do not like hartal, siege and deadline for ousting a democratically elected government, and we do not expect inhuman activities on the part of the government either.
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