PM orders steps for quick disposal of sensational cases

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday asked the ministries concerned for steps to ensure speedy disposal of ‘sensational murder cases’ as lengthy investigation and slow judicial process held back dozens of such cases across the country.
Presiding over the weekly cabinet meeting at the secretariat, she said people usually got frustrated due to procrastination in investigation and preparation of charge-sheets which, she said, could be done faster to speed up the trial process, a minister told New Age.
Hasina picked up the issue for discussion as law minister Anisul Huq referred to speedy trials of the recent murder cases of two minors in Sylhet and Khulna during the routine cabinet meeting.
The law minister said the courts had set an example by conducting the trials of Rajon murder and Rakib murder in 17 working days, according to the minister.
The prime minister said the delay in investigation and preparation of charge-sheets was one of the main reasons for the prolonged trial process in such other cases that included blogger killings, Narayanganj seven murders, journalist couple Sagar-Runi murder, BDR carnage,  August 21 grenade attacks on Awami League rally and SAMS Kibria killing.
‘The prime minister asked the home ministry and others concerned for immediate steps to ensure quick disposal of the sensational murder cases that took place in recent years,’ the minister said.
The PM, however, did not name any of the murder cases, he added.
Courts on Sunday sentenced six persons to death in separate cases of torturing and killing 13-year old Samiul Alam Rajon in Sylhet and 12-year-old Rakib Hawlader in Khulna earlier this year.
The brutal killings of the two minor boys, who earned their living, caused huge outrage at home and abroad.
Both the verdicts were delivered in crowded courtrooms amid pin drop silence in the two cities in two corners of the country as the whole nation eagerly waited for the verdicts.

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