Cabinet approves Border Guard Bangladesh Bill, maximum punishment death sentence for mutiny
| Dhaka, Jul 12 (UNB) - The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of Border Guard Bangladesh Bill 2010 with maximum punishment of death sentence for mutiny. The approval to the draft law came from a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Under the proposed law, trial of any offence could be held at three different tiers of court instead of one tier of court as envisaged in the existing BDR Act. Under the BDR Act, maximum punishment for mutiny is seven years’ imprisonment. Once the new law is passed by Parliament, the country’s border force will be known as Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), which will have a new emblem as well as new uniform of black, maroon and ash colour replacing the olive and maroon uniform. Briefing reporters at the PID Conference room, Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad said the draft of the Border Guard Bangladesh Bill 2010 was first placed in the cabinet meeting on March 1 this year. The proposed law seeks to restructure the BDR and remove the inadequacies in holding the trial of last year’s BDR mutiny. Azad informed that the cabinet meeting approved two other proposals - the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Bill 2010 and the International Mother Language Institute Bill 2010. The cabinet also approved in principle the draft of the Disclosure of Information Relating to Public Interest (Protection) Bill 2010. Under the proposed Domestic Violence law, anyone found guilty of filing false case over family feud will be sentenced to 10 years’ in jail and Tk 100,000 fine, Azad said. Replying to a question, he said other penal provisions for domestic violence will continue. The PM’s Press Secretary said the present government is strongly committed to stop all types of domestic violence. He said that apart from Bangladesh, 89 other countries including India, Japan and South Korea also enacted such a law to stop domestic violence. Azad said the cabinet meeting evaluated the cabinet decisions taken since the present government took power in January 2009 and their implementation. He informed that the cabinet took 498 decisions from January 2009-June 2010, of which 411 decisions were implemented - the rate of implementation being 87 percent. Besides, he said, the cabinet endorsed 120 draft laws, of which 100 were passed in the parliament, 15 under parliamentary process while five others are being scrutinized by the respective ministries. |
Comments
No Comments on this News
