‘Reforms to expedite criminal justice system’

Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary affairs Advocate Anisul Huq Wednesday said the door of justice should be opened to all justice seekers equally, reports BSS.
"As judge you have to remain active so that the door of justice should not be confined only to those affluent people," he said.
The Law Minister said this pointing at the joint district and sessions judges and law officers of same status while inaugurating as the chief guest the refreshers' course of 122nd batch at the Judicial Administration Training Institute in the city.
Anisul Huq said, "If you discharge your professional duties with honesty, sincerity, neutrally and efficiently in each of the phases of litigation then it will be possible to establish the dispensation of proper justice in accordance with people's expectations within a short span of time and the common people's (masses) trust in the judiciary will increase manifold."
The minister said over 2.0 million cases are pending in the country and it's a big challenge for the judges to reduce this backlog. He said in its previous term, the Awami League-led government took initiative for speedy disposal of cases in facing the challenge bringing amendment to the civil procedure code and the Artharin Adalat Law (Money Loan Court Act) by incorporating the 'ADR' provision.
In continuation of the previous initiative, the minister said, the present government would also initiate time-befitting changes in the country's judiciary by bringing reforms in the century-old laws and procedures. He said the Plea Bargain Concept would be included by bringing reforms in the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) to expedite more the criminal justice system.
Director General of the Judicial Administration Training Institute Justice Khondokar Musa Khaled chaired the function, also addressed, by director of the Institute Osman Haider.
In reply to a question of reporters after the function on introduction of evening court as suggested recently in the media by chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry Suranjit Sengupta, the Law Minister shared Sengupta's opinion.