DHAKA: A rights group emphasized improving human rights training and education for judges in three South Asian countries- Bangladesh, India and Nepal—as justice allegedly eludes their peoples in may cases.

In a written statement the group titled Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organization, also underlined the need for structural and systemic reforms in the judiciary to ensure the independence of the judiciary.

On Bangladesh, the statement criticized that the government and politicians ‘directly intervene’ in the functioning of the judiciary—a view that only corroborates complaints from different quarters within the country.   

“The Attorney General's Department demonstrated its high degree of politicisation in 2010 when it intervened in cases overriding bail orders of persons released from custody after being detained arbitrarily due to political rivalry,” the law-watcher said.

The ALRC proposed to engage in dialogues with the governments of Nepal, Bangladesh and India to end corruption, ineptitude and neglect that hampers the functioning of justice institutions.

BDST 1030 HRS. May 27, 2010.

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