Special courts, jails removed after elections results, says speaker

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Speaker Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar said the makeshift anti-graft courts and jails in the parliament complex would be removed after official announcement of December 29 election results, reports bdnews24.com.
After the declaration of emergency on January 11 last year, Fakhruddin Ahmed's interim government set up 10 special courts for the trial of suspected corrupt politicians including two former prime ministers and government officials.
The government, with the approval from the parliament secretariat, also turned the speaker's and the deputy speaker's houses into special jails to keep BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina in detention.
"I will order authorities to remove the special courts and the special jails from the [parliament] premises immediately after the announcement of the official results of the ninth parliamentary polls," Sircar said to the news agency Monday by telephone from his constituency in Panchagarh.
He said the parliament secretariat was the owner of the buildings turned into makeshift courts and jails.
Sircar said he handed over the buildings to the government on condition that those would be returned to the parliament secretariat after the announcement of schedule of the polls.