HC questions legality of 9 children’s detention in Mohammadpur
The High Court today questioned the legality of detaining nine children by Mohammadpur police in May this year.
The court issued a ruling asking the government to explain in four weeks as to why their detention and sending them to the jail should not be declared illegal.
A bench of Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Justice Ashish Ranjan Das came up with the ruling following a writ petition filed by rights organisation Children's Charity Bangladesh Foundation (CCBF) seeking explanation about the detention.
The organisation submitted the writ petition to the HC last week saying that the Mohammadpur police reportedly detained the children on May 26 on theft charge.
The children were brought to the court prison in Dhaka but they were not produced before it on that day.
The police have violated different sections of Children Act-2013 as the police did not determine their ages and produce them to the child desk of the police station.
Petitioner’s lawyer Barrister Abdul Halim told The Daily Star that the children were detained without any specific allegations and they have been kept in the juvenile correction centre in Gazipur illegally.
Home secretary, officials concerned of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's (CMM) Court of Dhaka, inspector general of police (IGP), Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner and its deputy commissioner (south), officer-in-charge of Mohammadpur Police Station and the director general of directorate of social welfare have been made respondent to the rule.
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