Salim Osman, 12 others to be tried in Dhaka

The chief judicial magistrate of Dhaka district was directed by the High Court Division on Sunday to proceed the trial of the complaint case against Jatiya Party MP AKM Salim Osman and 12 others for publicly humiliating and assaulting headmaster Shyamal Kanti Bhakta in Narayanganj on May 13, 2016.
The law requires the CJM to treat the judicial probe report on the headmaster’s humiliation as the complaint for the case, lawyers told New Age.
The judicial probe into the episode found incriminating evidence that the headmaster was publicly compelled to sit up holding his ears on orders from Salim Osman. 
The probe also found evidence that 10 to 12 persons led by Apu, son of local resident Shamsul Huq, beat up the headmaster of Pyar Sattar Latif High School in the Bandar thana area while the school’s managing committee meeting was in progress at 11AM on May 13, 2016. 
On January 19, the judicial probe report was given to the High Court Division by the capital’s chief metropolitan magistrate Sheikh Hafizur Rahman. 
The High Court Division also directed the CJM of Narayanganj to hand over ‘at once’ the judicial records relating to the headmaster’s humiliation to the CJM of Dhaka district.
The Narayanganj CJM’s court had absolved Salim Osman and the others of their complicity in the incident by accepting an evasive probe report of the local police. 
The law requires the CJM of Dhaka district to proceed with the trial as soon as he receives the records relating to the headmaster’s humiliation from the CJM of Narayanganj and the High Court Division. 
The CJM of Dhaka district is also required to summon the accused named in the judicial probe report, said the lawyers. 
A bench of Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and JBM Hassan issued the directives while disposing of a suo moto rule it had issued on May 18, asking the government to explain why it would not be directed to take legal action against Salim Osman and his cronies for humiliating the headmaster and imposing degrading punishments on him.
The bench issued the directives on receipt of the judicial probe report.
The bench described the judicial probe report as ‘inclusive.’
CMM Sheikh Hafizur Rahman held the on the spot probe on orders given by the bench on August 10. 
The HC had earlier rejected local police’s probe report submitted to it on August 2, calling it as ‘evasive’. 
In the directives, the bench scolded the police for their failure to enforce the law ‘impartially’.
It said that the perpetrators had illegally taken law in their own hands.
None is above the law, the bench reminded the perpetrators.

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