HC wants mental health test for two prisoners
The High Court yesterday ordered the Kashimpur Jail authorities to take two under-trial prisoners, who have been in custody for around 16 and 14 years in two murder cases, for their mental health examination.
After hearing a suomoto rule earlier issued over the bail of Shafiqul Islam Swapan and Sabet Ali, the court asked the Mymensingh Medical College Hospital's principal to submit their test reports to it in 15 days.
Supreme Court Legal Aid Committee's lawyer Advocate Cumar Debul Dey, who earlier prayed to the HC for issuing the suomoto rule, yesterday said Shafiqul has been in the custody since 2001 in a case filed over killing his father and Sabet has been in custody since 2003 in a case over killing his mother and wife.
They are now mentally challenged, he added.
The HC asked the trial courts concerned to finish trial proceedings against Sabet and Shafiqul in six months and two months respectively if they are found not mentally disordered.
It asked the authorities to send them to their parents or safe home for their treatment suspending their trial proceedings if they are mentally challenged, Advocate Cumar said, adding that their trial proceedings will resume after they will be cured.
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