Report what steps have been taken
The High Court yesterday asked the government to inform what steps it has taken against incidents of mob beating and its perpetrators.
The home secretary and the inspector general of police have been asked to submit separate reports to this effect to the court by November 28.
It also issued a rule asking the government to explain why its failure to protect Taslima Begum Ranu and others who were killed in mob beatings this year should not be declared illegal.
The bench of Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Justice Md Ashraful Kamal passed the order and issued the rule, following a writ petition filed by Supreme Court lawyer Ishrat Hasan seeking necessary orders.
She submitted the petition to the HC yesterday seeking its rule on the government to explain its failure to protect the victims of mob beating.
During hearing, Advocate Ishrat told the court that seven people were reportedly killed and 35 others injured in mob beating incidents earlier this year.
Their right to life has been violated, and authorities concerned of the government have failed to protect their lives, she argued.
Taslima Begum Renu, a 40-year-old single mother of two was beaten dead on the morning of July 20, when she went to Uttar Badda Government Primary School to ask about the admission process, according to police.
Her nephew Nasir Uddin Tito filed a case against 400 or 500 unknown people with Badda Police Station.
Locals told police that some people thought she was a child abductor and attacked her.
Mobs beat to death four more people on suspicion of being child abductors on the same day.
Comments