Aggrieved transport workers can appeal against sentences: Anisul

Law tminister Anisul Huq said on Wednesday that the aggrieved transport workers, instead of protesting at the verdicts, could go to the High Court to appeal against sentences delivered by the lower courts. 
‘These verdicts are delivered by the lower courts. If anyone feels aggrieved, there is scope for filing appeals against the sentences and we are suggesting so,’ Anisul, also a lawyer by profession, said after a meeting with road transport minister Obaidul Quader at the secretariat. 
Shipping minister Shajahan Khan, who reportedly backed the countrywide strike called by Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Sramik Federation as its executive president, was also present at the meeting. 
When approached, Shajahan, however, skipped answering questions from the reporters over the matter as it was reported in the media that he defended workers’ stance against the court verdicts sentencing a bus driver to life-term and a truck driver to death in separate cases. 
Asked whether the transport workers’ countrywide strike against the verdicts amounted to contempt of court, the law minister said on Tuesday that it was for the court to determine it.

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