Stop parading detainees before media

The law enforcers' placing detainees before the media and making them speak should be stopped, observed a High Court bench yesterday.
Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik, senior judge of a division bench, also said that such actions were prohibited as per law and the constitution.
The law enforcers take confessional statements from the detainees while exposing their names and identities before the media, which is illegal and unconstitutional, he said during the hearing of a contempt of court case.
He mentioned that the law enforcers could take confessional statements from detainees only after producing them before a magistrate as per the law.
Justice Manik made the comment following the December 1 incident of producing Javed Imam, a senior assistant judge of Bhola District Judge's Court, before the media by the police after arresting him in front of the capital's Eden Women's College for allegedly carrying 342 bottles of Phensedyl.
A metropolitan magistrate on Monday summoned five police officials including the officer-in-charge of New Market police to appear before it in person today and explain why they produced Javed before the media without taking permission from a magistrate.
SC APPROVES SUSPENSION
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court yesterday approved a government decision to suspend Javed.
The approval came at a full court meeting of the SC with Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain in the chair. Almost all the High Court judges attended the meeting which was held at the conference room of the SC building in the afternoon, meeting sources said.
The meeting also endorsed a law ministry proposal to file a departmental case against Javed and close him to the ministry.
The ministry on December 2 sent the proposal to the SC to suspend Javed and file a case against him.
Yesterday, the meeting decided to suspend SM Aminul Islam, a judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal of Comilla, and Habibur Rahman, additional district judge of Madaripur, over graft charges following recommendations by the SC's general administration (GA) committee, sources said.
Departmental proceedings against Aminul and Habibur are underway.
Another recommendation to promote seven joint district judges to the post of additional district judge was also approved.
CONTEMPT RULE ON KEPZ OFFICIALS
The bench of Justice Manik and Justice Farid Ahmed was hearing a contempt of court rule against three officials of KEPZ, a private export processing zone.
The court issued the rule on November 15 as they ignored its earlier order of April this year asking them to stop hill cutting at Anwara in Chittagong and to bring the place back to its previous position.
The KEPZ officials -- its Adviser Brig Gen (retd) Hasan Nasir, General Manager Col (retd) Mohammad Shajahan and Manager Abul Kalam Azad -- promised before the court that they would soon comply with the HC directive.
Advocate Manzill Murshid, who filed the contempt of court petition, told The Daily Star that the HC exempted the officials from personal appearance before it for the time being.
If they do not comply with the court order, a petition will be filed with the HC to summon them again, added the lawyer.