The Cabinet approved on Monday in principle the draft of the 'Battalion Ansar (Amendment) Bill, 2015' keeping provisions for forced retirement and other punishments to members of Bangladesh Ansar to make the existing law more time-befitting, reports UNB.
The approval on the proposed law was given at the regular weekly meeting of the Cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said the Cabinet also made two important observations to incorporate in the proposed law to make the law a complete one.
The observations are incorporating a provision of punishment for mutiny, if occurs, in the force and suggested fixing punishment consistent with the similar provision of the BGB Act.
It also suggested reduction of the probationary period of nine years to six years to make the services for embodied Ansar members permanent.
The Cabinet also gave the final approval subject to vetting of the Ministry of Law to the draft of the 'Public Servants (Marriage with Foreign Nationals) Bill, 2015'.
The Cabinet Secretary said the existing law of 2009 was originally promulgated in 1976 through a martial law ordinance and later amended in 2008 during the caretaker government through another ordinance.
He said as the original law was in English and the proposed one has been drafted in Bangla in line with the earlier Cabinet decision of making all laws in the mother tongue.
Cabinet okays Ansars’ forced retirement bill
FE Team | Published: March 03, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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