Health Desk- 02
March, 2020: The High Court on Sunday issued five-point directives to
prevent spreading rumours and repeated incidents of mob lynching in the
country.
In the directives, the court asked the Home Ministry to take
initiatives to stop spreading rumours on mob lynching based audio, video and
Short Message Service (SMS) by using social media like Facebook and others.
A HC Bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md
Mostafizur Rahman delivered the directives after hearing on a writ petition
filed by a Supreme Court lawyer Ishrat Hasan.
The petition was filed as public interest litigation.
The HC asked the authorities concerned to ask its officials
to follow the directives. In the directives, it asked all assistant
superintendents of police (ASP-Circle) to hold meetings with the officers in
charge (OC) at least once in every six months.
It also asked the Home Ministry to conduct campaign in
electronic media to create a public awareness and the district education
officer of Dhaka to take necessary steps to investigate the negligence of the
head teacher of Uttar Badda Government primary school in the murder case of
Taslima Begum Renu, who died at a mob lynching last year.
On August 26, 2019, the HC issued a rule asking the
government to explain in four weeks why its failure to protect Taslima Begum
Renu and others who were killed in recent lynching should not be declared
illegal.
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