Reply #61: HC order to ensure security of rape victim (Daily Star)

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Monday, January 25, 2010

The High Court yesterday directed the Brahmanbaria district administration and the Kasba police to ensure security of a girl who was raped and also lashed in a traditional arbitration, and produce her to the court at 10:30am on February 7.

The court also issued a rule upon the government to explain why it should not be directed to take legal action against the people involved in the incident of arbitration at Khargor village in Kasba on January 17.

The HC bench of Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Quamrul Islam Siddiqui passed the order upon a writ petition as public interest litigation.

Advocate Salahuddin Dolon, a Supreme Court lawyer, filed the writ petition with the HC following a report on the incident published in The Daily Star yesterday under the headline 'Village Arbitration: Rapist Spared, Victim Lashed' ...

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