Govt to provide lawyers with low cost loans: law minister
Law Minister Anisul Huq said the government will provide lawyers in need with long-term loans at minimum interest rates in order to reduce their sufferings.
"The lawyers, particularly the junior practitioners, have been deprived of law practice for two and a half months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Many of them have fallen into a financial crisis and are now suffering. They will be given long-term loans at minimum interest rates through the Bangladesh Bar Council," he said, while speaking as chief guest at a meeting virtually organised to inaugurate an eight-story building for the chief judicial magistrate court in Faridpur on Sunday.
The law minister said around 37 lakh cases are now pending with courts across the country, and they will be reduced.
"We are trying to reduce the huge backlog of pending cases in the middle of the positions of 'justice delayed is justice denied' and 'justice hurried is justice buried'."
Mentioning the trials for the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the four national leaders inside Dhaka Central Jail and for crimes against humanity, the minister said the trial and punishment for the custodial death have been first ensured in Bangladesh during the regime of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina-led government in the subcontinent.
He said the government has undertaken a project worth Tk 2,876 crore in order to establish e-judiciary in the country.
People will get results of the project of the e-judiciary when it will be implemented, Anisul said.
Faridpur District and Sessions Judge Md Selim Miah presided over the meeting, where local lawmakers Monjur Hossain and Mojibur Rahman Chowdhury Nixon, law secretary Md Golam Sarwar, deputy commissioner of Faridpur Atul Sarkar, superintendent of police of the district Md Alimuzzaman, president of Faridpur district Awami League Advocate Subol Chandra Saha, Faridpur Bar Association president AOM Khaled and law ministry's joint secretary Bikash Kumar Saha also spoke.
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