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Cabinet okays Speedy Trial (Amendment) Act

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Published: 09:47, 5 June 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Cabinet okays Speedy Trial (Amendment) Act

Secretariat Correspondent: The Cabinet approved in principle the draft of "The Law and Order Disruption (Speedy Trial) (Amendment) Act, 2017" raising the punishment of jail terms by two years for committing crimes disrupting the law and order.

It was approved on Monday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina chairing the special meeting held at the cabinet room of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.

Briefing the reporters after the meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat, Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam said the amendment has been made in the section 4(1) of the existing Law and Order Disruption (Speedy Trial) Act, 2002 to raise the punishment after wide range of discussions with the concerned stakeholders.

Trials of some offences like extortion, disrupting the transportation services, vandalism, tender manipulation, giving threat, mugging, creating terrorizing people as well as vandalism of public properties and immovable properties would come under the purview of the amended law as in the existing law, he said.


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