Explain how complaints disposed of
HC to NHRC
The High Court yesterday asked the National Human Rights Commission to explain in two weeks under what authority and how it disposes human rights violation allegations.
Issuing a rule, it asked the NHRC to describe how it registers a complaint.
The court ordered NHRC to explain under what authority it had kept pending a complaint lodged by Mozammel Haque, a dismissed official of Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence (FSCD), for over five months in 2012.
The bench of Justice M Moazzam Husain and Justice Md Badruzzaman issued the rule after hearing a writ petition filed by Mozammel on June 17, 2013, where he stated the NHRC failed to properly consider his complaint.
He said the FSCD authorities tortured and harassed him because he had protested the corruption of the organisation. The petitioner also claimed that the NHRC on May 29, 2013 sent a letter to the Information Commission, saying, "He [Mozammel] is a habitual offender", which was arbitrary and unlawful.
NHRC Chairman Kazi Rezaul Hoque and its former chairman Mizanur Rahman have been asked to reply to the rule, petitioner's lawyer Abdul Halim told The Daily Star.