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Dial 16430 for free legal aid

Amirul Islam || risingbd.com

Published: 12:46, 28 April 2016   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Dial 16430 for free legal aid

Desk Report: A national helpline has been launched to provide disadvantaged and helpless people with free legal assistance.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched the helpline on the National Legal Aid Day at a ceremony organised at the Institution of Engineers in the capital on Thursday.

Sheikh Hasina said, “We took this initiative to ensure legal aid for people at grassroots level.”

Any sort of legal advice can be available at 16430, she added.

The low income people or those with partial or no earning capacity will qualify for the free services.

Freedom fighters who are unemployed, recipients of the government’s elderly allowance or poor mothers with VGD (Vulnerable Group Development) cards can also receive assistance.

Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs organised the ceremony.  

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