Corrupt Magistrate in Chittagong is unfit for hearing Arms-haul case
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Ref: http://www.newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=265938
I am really shocked to learn that Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) of Chittagong - Mohammad Asaduzzaman Khan has been engaged in a case of national importance like the Arms-haul case. He is an utterly corrupt person who in February 2009 took bribe money (Tk. 40,000) from the advocate for a powerful land-grabbing syndicate in Chittagong to victimize innocent people. The land-grabbing syndicate is led by Jaker Hosain Chowdhury (an ex-Madrasa daptari who was a Razakar during the War of Liberation). Jaker and his crime syndicate were assisted in 2005 by a powerful BNP-MP into illegally grabbing land in Chittagong. While the BNP leader's connection with the syndicate is not clear at this time, the criminal syndicate still poses much threat to the law-abiding ordinary citizens of the Chittagong metropolis and is known for bribing corrupt judges and magistrates like Asaduzzamn Khan to buy favor from the court and magistrate's office.
In mid-February of this year the ACMM Asaduzzaman issued an arrest warrant against four innocent individuals based on false charges brought by Jaker without any police inquiry and verification. There was absolutely no truth to the claims made by Jaker and a police inquiry would have been sufficient to find the falsity of the charges brought against four individuals and know that Jaker had deliberately falsified information to harass them. In those charges, Jaker claimed that an 82-year old person (who barely can walk), aided by his 53-year old daughter, had tried to kill him by squeezing his testicles, while his two sons-in-law kicked him. He claimed that the incident happened on busy hours of the afternoon in front of a busy road. Not surprisingly to exaggerate the gravity of the crime, the 82-year old person was shown as a 52-year old man and his daughter 38-year old.
A mere reading of those charges would have made any person with an iota of intelligence to know that those charges were absurd, absolutely false and ludicrous. But to a corrupt magistrate like Asaduzzaman bribe and not justice and fair play meant more. Thus, instead of usual procedure requiring police inquiry and report, he right away issued arrest warrant against four absolutely innocent human beings. What a mockery of justice! Apprehensive of being put behind the jail on false charges, the four accused had to appeal to the High Court in Dhaka for bail petition, leaving behind an ailing wife, mother and mother-in-law who needed round the clock medical care. Fortunately, they were granted the bail. But imagine the suffering the family had to endure!
For the fairness of the Arms-hauling case, it is necessary that the ACMM, Chittagong, Mr. Asaduzzaman Khan be removed from any duties pertaining to the case. It is also high time that our government takes stern action against Mr. Khan for his aiding and abetting criminals. No one should be above the law and when someone like Mr Khan himself becomes a party to crime and corruption it is a sad day for the health of law and order in Bangladesh. The government cannot afford to have its commitments to fight crime and corruption stained by corrupt magistrates like Asaduzzaman Khan.
Ref: http://www.newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=265938
I am really shocked to learn that Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) of Chittagong - Mohammad Asaduzzaman Khan has been engaged in a case of national importance like the Arms-haul case. He is an utterly corrupt person who in February 2009 took bribe money (Tk. 40,000) from the advocate for a powerful land-grabbing syndicate in Chittagong to victimize innocent people. The land-grabbing syndicate is led by Jaker Hosain Chowdhury (an ex-Madrasa daptari who was a Razakar during the War of Liberation). Jaker and his crime syndicate were assisted in 2005 by a powerful BNP-MP into illegally grabbing land in Chittagong. While the BNP leader's connection with the syndicate is not clear at this time, the criminal syndicate still poses much threat to the law-abiding ordinary citizens of the Chittagong metropolis and is known for bribing corrupt judges and magistrates like Asaduzzamn Khan to buy favor from the court and magistrate's office.
In mid-February of this year the ACMM Asaduzzaman issued an arrest warrant against four innocent individuals based on false charges brought by Jaker without any police inquiry and verification. There was absolutely no truth to the claims made by Jaker and a police inquiry would have been sufficient to find the falsity of the charges brought against four individuals and know that Jaker had deliberately falsified information to harass them. In those charges, Jaker claimed that an 82-year old person (who barely can walk), aided by his 53-year old daughter, had tried to kill him by squeezing his testicles, while his two sons-in-law kicked him. He claimed that the incident happened on busy hours of the afternoon in front of a busy road. Not surprisingly to exaggerate the gravity of the crime, the 82-year old person was shown as a 52-year old man and his daughter 38-year old.
A mere reading of those charges would have made any person with an iota of intelligence to know that those charges were absurd, absolutely false and ludicrous. But to a corrupt magistrate like Asaduzzaman bribe and not justice and fair play meant more. Thus, instead of usual procedure requiring police inquiry and report, he right away issued arrest warrant against four absolutely innocent human beings. What a mockery of justice! Apprehensive of being put behind the jail on false charges, the four accused had to appeal to the High Court in Dhaka for bail petition, leaving behind an ailing wife, mother and mother-in-law who needed round the clock medical care. Fortunately, they were granted the bail. But imagine the suffering the family had to endure!
For the fairness of the Arms-hauling case, it is necessary that the ACMM, Chittagong, Mr. Asaduzzaman Khan be removed from any duties pertaining to the case. It is also high time that our government takes stern action against Mr. Khan for his aiding and abetting criminals. No one should be above the law and when someone like Mr Khan himself becomes a party to crime and corruption it is a sad day for the health of law and order in Bangladesh. The government cannot afford to have its commitments to fight crime and corruption stained by corrupt magistrates like Asaduzzaman Khan.
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