Bangladesh Bar Council MCQ Exam Shifted from 30-08-2013 to 06-09-2013.Bangladesh Bar Council MCQ Exam Shifted
Bangladesh Bar Council MCQ Exam Shifted from 30-08-2013 to 06-09-2013.
Delowar Hossain Sayeedi sentenced to Death
The 73 year old Jamaat-e-Islami
nayeb-e-ameer Delowar Hossain Sayeedi was found guilty of murder, abduction,
confinement, torture, rape, persecution and abatement of torture,
looting, forceful religious conversions and setting homes ablaze in rural areas
of southern district of Bangladesh namely, Pirojpur during the Liberation War.[1]
Charge-1:
Killing
of 20 People:
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| Delowar Hossain Sayeedi sentenced to Death |
On May 4, 1971, Delawar
Hossain Sayedee as a member of Peace (Shanti) Committee carried secret
information to the Pakistan army about a gathering of a group of people behind
the Madhya Masimpur bus-stand under Pirojpur Sadar and took the army to the spot.
The army killed 20 unnamed people by firing.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted
Charge-2:
Killing 13 Hindu People:
On May 4, 1971, Sayedee
along with his accomplices accompanied by the Pakistan army looted belongings
of members of the Hindu community living in Masimpur Hindu Para under Pirojpur
Sadar. They also set the houses of Hindus alight and opened fire on the scared
people, who started fleeing the scene, killing 13 people.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted
Charge-3:
On May 4, 1971, Sayedee
led a team of the Pakistan army to Masimpur Hindu Para, where the team looted
goods from the houses of two members of the Hindu community -- Monindra Nath
Mistri and Suresh Chandra Mondol -- and destroyed their houses by setting them
on fire. Sayedee also directly took part in the large-scale destruction by setting
fire to the roadside houses of villages Kalibari, Masimpur, Palpara, Sikarpur, Razarhat,
Kukarpara, Dumur Tola, Kalamtola, Nawabpur, Alamkuthi, Dhukigathi, Parerha and
Chinrakhali.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted
Charge-4:
On May 4, 1971, Sayedee
and his accomplices, accompanied by the Pakistani army looted the houses of
members of the Hindu community and opened fire indiscriminately on them in
front of Dhopa Bari and behind the LGED Building in Pirojpur, leaving four persons
killed.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted
Charge-5:
Sayedee declared
publicly to arrest Saif Mizanur Rahman, then deputy magistrate of Pirojpur
Sub-division, when the magistrate organised a Sarbo Dalio Sangram Parishad to inspire
people to join the Liberation War. On May 5, 1971, Sayedee along with his associate
Monnaf (now deceased), a member of Peace (Shanti) Committee, accompanied by the
Pakistan army picked up Saif from the hospital where he was hiding and took him
to the bank of the Baleshwar river. On the same date and time, Foyezur Rahman
Ahmed, sub-divisional police officer, and Abdur Razzak (SDO in charge of
Pirojpur), were also arrested from their workplaces and taken to the river
bank. Sayedee as a member of the killer squad was present there and all three
government officials were gunned down. Their bodies were thrown into the river
Baleshwar. Sayedee directly participated and abetted in the acts of abduction
and killing of those three officers.
Held: Not
Guilty/ Acquitted
A Comparative Study on Women’s Right in Bangladesh under Hindu and Muslim Personal Laws
Introduction
The term women's rights refer
to freedom and entitlements of women and girls of
all ages. These rights may or may not be institutionalized, ignored or
suppressed by law, local custom, and behavior in a particular society. These
liberties are grouped together and differentiated from broader notions of human rights because
they often differ from the freedoms inherently possessed by or recognized for
men and boys, and because activists for this issue claim an inherent historical
and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls.[1]
Issues
commonly associated with notions of women's rights include, though are not
limited to, the right: to bodily integrity and autonomy; to vote(suffrage); to hold public office; to work;
to fair wages or equal pay; to own property; to education;
to serve in the military or be conscripted; to enter into legal contracts; and to have marital, parental and
religious rights. Women and their
supporters have campaigned and in some places continue to campaign for the same
rights as men.[2] All
family laws- Hindu, Muslim, Parsee, Sikh, Jain and Christian personal laws-have
certain common features. All of them recognize the man as the head of the
household, they sanction patrilineage and patrilocality, they treat women as
men’s property and consider the father to be the natural guardian and they
perpetuate double standards in sexual morality and property rights. It is
common knowledge among those reasonably acquainted with law that women are
greatly deprived of their rights within the laws that govern crucial aspects of
the man woman relationship: marriage and divorce, custody of children and
guardianship rights, alimony and maintenance for divorced women as well as
property rights. The question of women has acquired great importance throughout
the world today among all communities. This is for obvious reasons. For
centuries, women have been in total subjugation in male-dominated patriarchal
societies. It has been a “natural law” to regard women as the inferior sex and
for them to submit to male authority for the smooth functioning of society in
its day to day progress.
The women in
Law relating to women’s
right
The Bangladesh Constitution declares equal rights for men
and women in all spheres of public life.[5]
The word 'public' seems to be a major clue to solving this riddle. It is only
in the spheres of state and public life that equality is guaranteed through the
Constitution. This means that in the private or personal sphere women are
pretty much on their own. So even if her husband for whatever reason
continuously tortures a woman, until she is killed, the state is unlikely to
intervene, as it is we say, too gentlemanly to invade the privacy of the
individual. The result is that women continue to be treated as inferior human
beings by their husbands and by a society that tends to victimize victims
instead of helping them.
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