Measures to release prisoners from minority Communities: GA Bava
Mangaluru: The state Minority Commission would take steps to release the prisoners who have been undergoing punishment in the jails of the state, said Commission chairman GA Bava.
Speaking to reporters here on Tuesday, he said that steps would be taken to release the prisoners, including those from the minority communities. This decision would apply to only those who were imprisoned for the first time. Those who involved in petty cases, suspected movements and theft cases were normally imprisoned. Usually, the courts would award three to six months imprisonment in theft cases. Though such convicted people get bails, they could not be able to pay the surety amount. Those who fail to pay the amount continue in jail even after two and a half years despite convicted for just three months. So the Commission would take steps to release such convicted persons, he said.
The details on such convicted persons would be collected from all jails in the state. Jailers have been directed to provide the details every month. Details of such convicted persons would be given to advocates and NGOs to help them, he said.
Minority Welfare department district officer Usman, Minority Welfare Corporation district manager Safwan were present.
Removal of encroachment from waqf property
Many Wakf properties were encroached across the state. In 1968, all Wakf properties were notified through Gazette notification and those properties would remain as Wakf properties according to the Supreme Court. So, the Commission has taken tough steps to get back all those encroached Wakf properties. In future also, the commission would take up such cases, he said.
Injustice to minorities
The Commission came to know that minorities were encountering injustice from all departments. Details were being collected from all departments every month. Once the complete information is collected, it would be verified. If it is proved, the Commission would take action, GA Bava added.
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After Hadi, another Bangladesh student leader shot in head
Dhaka (PTI): Unidentified gunmen on Monday shot in the head Motaleb Shikder, a second leader of Bangladesh’s violent student-led 2024 uprising.
The attack took place in southwestern Khulna city, days after the killing of prominent youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi.
"The Khulna Division head of NCP (National Citizen Party) and central coordinator of the party’s workers front, Motaleb Shikder, was shot a few minutes ago," NCP’s joint principal coordinator Mahmuda Mitu said in a Facebook post.
Mitu, a doctor, said Shikder was rushed to Khulna Medical College Hospital in a critical condition.
The Kaler Kantha newspaper, quoting hospital sources, said Shikder was shot on the left side of his head, and he was bleeding profusely when he was brought to the facility, where the doctors started emergency treatment.
The attack came days after Hadi, a prominent leader of the student-led protests last year that led to the ouster of the prime minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, was shot in the head on December 12 by masked gunmen at an election campaign in central Dhaka’s Bijoynagar area.
The 32-year-old Inqilab Mancha spokesperson died while undergoing treatment in Singapore on Thursday. Hadi was a candidate for the scheduled February 12 general elections.
The interim government of Muhammad Yunus staged a nationwide mourning for Hadi’s death on Saturday and said no stone would be left unturned to track down his killers as violence erupted in Dhaka and other major cities afresh over the attack and subsequent death.
Faisal Karim Masud's parents, wife and a female friend of the prime suspect have been arrested by police, but said they were unsure about his current whereabouts.
After Monday’s clandestine attack on Shikder in Khulna city’s Majid Sarani area, police said they were yet at dark about the attack perpetrators or motive but launched an “immediate manhunt” for their arrest.
Local police station chief Animesh Mondal, however, informed reporters that Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) authorities now shifted Shikder to its City Imaging Centre to pinpoint the state of his injury.
