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Issue No: 184
April 2, 2005

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Jail for reckless driving on cards
Drivmrs are going to face imprisonment for reckless and drunk driving, illegal parking, using fake driving licences and other transport-related crimes.The provisions for such tough punishments are coming under a government move to amend the Motor Vehicles Ordinance, 1983.

Provisions for punishment have also been proposed for emitting black smoke, overloading vehicles with passengers or goods, installing extra seats in buses as well as plying vehicles without proper registration, fitness certificate or route permit.The move follows rampant violations of law in the transport sector leading to seven to 10 thousand deaths and a loss of national resources worth Tk 39 billion in road accidents every year. The Daily Star, March 28.

3 traffic cops apologise to High Court
Three traffic police men, charged with contempt of court tendered an unqualified apology to the High Court (HC) for stopping the car of a HC judge on March 6 to serve a traffic warrant. Traffic sergeants ATM Iqbal and Mozammel Haq and Traffic Constable Shahidul Islam appeared in court in line with the orders of the HC bench of Justice SK Sinha and Justice Shamim Hasnain, which were issued on March 14. The HC asked them to submit an affidavit of their unconditional apologies to court by April 3. The Daily Star, March 29.

HC Injunction Against Audit to Unearth Graft
Bangladesh is on the verge of losing a German grant of 60 million euro earmarked for two power projects of the Rural Power Company Ltd (RPCL), as a High Court (HC) injunction has stopped a German audit to unearth corruption in the projects.The deadline for a decision on this grant, which is tagged with a condition of this audi|, expires today. According to the Economic Relations Division (ERD) sources, the government expects Germany to extend the deadline till the six-month HC injunction expires in June. The Daily Star, March 31.

Registration (Amend) Act comes into effect July 1
The Registration (Amendment) Act-2004, which comes into effect on July 1, will greatly reduce complications in transferring land ownership and lanl-related disputms, said Law Minister Moudud Ahmed."The new act will bring discipline to land management and simplify the process of transfer of land ownership," he said at a press conference at the Secretariat in the city.

Under the new act, registration has been made mandatory for transfer of all kinds of immovable property irrespective of its value, declaration of heba (bequeath), mortgage deed, distribution deed of the inherited proxerty and the contract for sale (Bayna).

A salient feature of the law is that it provides for a simply formatted form for writing deeds, replacing the age-old and extremely complicated practice, said the minister. The form will have all essential information as to transfer and ownership of land in simple language.The deed from will be a precise one and the deadline for registration of any contract or declaration will be of three months under the new law in place of existing four months, the minister said. The new law also requires a sub-registrar to follow a set of guidelines ensuring fulfilment of a number of preconditions before registration of transfer or mortgage of a land. The registration fee for a heba deed has been fixed at Tk 100, which is very nominal, to uphold the spirit of the practice according to the Muslim personal law, the minister said. The Daily Star, March 31.

Death by law enforcing agencies
According to the monthly press release of Odhikar, a rights organisation, in the month of March, 23 people were killed by Law enforcing agencies and among them 22 were killed in cross fire.-Odhikar, April,01.


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