Onus on judicial magistrates

Justice Mostafa Kamal, the main author judge of the judgment of the judiciary separation case, yesterday said people want that there be no harassment, bribery and corruption be stopped, cases be disposed of quickly and there be a just judgment.
"People of our country do not want to enter into the complexity of who is conducting a trial, a man from the administration or a man from the judiciary," he told The Daily Star yesterday in an exclusive write-up on the occasion of separation of the judiciary from the executive.
The success or failure of separation depends upon these 201 judicial magistrates, who take over the functions of judicial magistracy today, the former chief justice said.
"If they are honest, go by the rules, be true to their duties, sit in the ejlash for the full prescribed period and keep the criminal courts as far as possible free from the vicious circle of bribery and corruption, then the people will come to realise the qualitative change in criminal magistracy and separation will go ahead climbing upon the steps of its own success."
Giving his blessings and extending his goodwill to the judicial magistrates, he said: "The administrative and supervisory works of the Supreme Court have now registered a manifold increase. I hope that the Supreme Court will not disappoint the countrymen in the due discharge of its extended functions."
Congratulating the caretaker government and the Appellate Division for their accomplishment, Justice Mostafa Kamal, also the chairman of Law Commission, said: "The process was not easy and the future ongoing process will not be strewn with a bed of roses either."
He said he cherishes the hope that the distribution of work among all kinds of magistrates will follow the directions of the Appellate Division. "No one wants a clash.”