Govt working to establish justice: PM

Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that her government is doing all things whatever is necessary for establishing justice in the country. 

The Prime Minister was addressing the inauguration programmes of the National Legal Aid Day, 2017 at Osmani Memorial Hall in the city on Friday morning.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the judges and lawyers to be more humanitarian and serve the litigants with extra care to reduce their sufferings in the court of justice.

Sheikh Hasina said, "The three organs of a state- legislative, executive and judiciary- must work together with consensus. A state can never run properly if the organs trade blames against each other," she said questing everybody to remain careful about this.

"Power of an organ is not less than the power of another one. We formulate law and judiciary is the executor of the law with the support of the executive. None can function independently. Every wing should function together with consensus," she added.

The Prime Minister urged all to help expanding the public legal aid system at grassroots level to give it an institutional shape.

Minister for Law and Justice Anisul Huq presided over the function while secretary of the Law and Justice Division of the Ministry of Law Abu Saleh Sk Md. Zahirul Haque and Acting Director of the National Legal Aid Services Organization Mostafizur Rahman also spoke on the occasion.

Highlighting the steps taken by her government for development of the judiciary the Prime Minister said there is no alternative to independent judiciary to establish the rule of law. The Awami league government is always sincere to establish an independent judiciary, she said.

Sheikh Hasina said the Constitution of Bangladesh framed by Bangabandhu government in 1972 is a unique pillar of justice and equality which guaranteed the basic rights of the citizens. Bangabandhu himself is a witness of the culture of lawlessness. As a sufferer Bangabandhu incorporated the issues of human rights in the Constitution, she said.

The Prime Minister said every citizen has the right to get legal aid as her government is working for an independent, neutral and modern judicial system. To pave the way of getting justice by helpless, poor and disadvantageous people the government enacted Legal AID Act 2000, which is playing a pioneering role in reducing social discrimination in getting justice, she said.



risingbd/Dhaka/April 28, 2017/Saiful/Mukul