Prominent human rights activist Sultana Kamal says distrust and disrespect have been created in people's mind about the country's judiciary because of its fragile functioning as an institution.
Sultana says there have been many recent incidents that demonstrate that public representatives, religious leaders and other influential people of the society are involved in tortures and killings in the name of arbitration or fatwa (edict).
She says in those cases, the influential people have followed a clear tendency of bypassing the judiciary.
Sultana, executive director of human rights group Ain-o-Salish Kendra, made her comment Saturday as she spoke to reporters at a press conference at Dhaka Reporters' Unity.
The ASK boss, also a former caretaker government adviser, said common people were killing human beings out of suspicion while law enforcing agencies were conducting extrajudicial killings.
She found a connection for such lawlessness with presence of weak institutions.
Explaining her views, Sultana said maybe a judge was a good person, maybe a policeman or an administrator was a good human being, but the country's judiciary was unable to deliver as an institution.
She said innocent people were being punished while real culprits remained scot-free.
'(That's why) Repressions, tortures and extrajudicial killings are gaining acceptability in the society,' she said.
Sultana, a daughter of renowned poet Sufia Kamal, urged the people to come out against such illegal activities to prevent them from happening.
Soruce : New Age
