Chief Justice pledges pro-people judiciary amid Institutional reforms

Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed assured on the current time (8 December) that the judiciary will stand beside other folks, stressing that solid steps enjoy already been taken for institutional reforms at this necessary juncture.

“Every person will procure a other folks-oriented and other folks-centric judiciary by your aspect in welfare and work,” he stated whereas inaugurating the Citizen’s Convention 2024 titled ‘Other folks-centric Reform for Shapely Governance: Aspirations of Deprived Communities’ in the capital on Sunday.

In recent years, the executive justice stated that a approach of justice and the values associated with it had been eroded.

“Dishonesty as an more than just a few of honesty, deprivation as an more than just a few of rights, oppression as an more than just a few of justice, torture as an more than just a few of shelter had been made accepted issues (in the previous years). But we failed to prefer the kind of society and impart,” he stated.

The manager justice harassed the need for initiating a novel dawdle of the judiciary and reestablishing the destroyed values standing on this pile of rubbles of this destruction.

“At this main juncture of the country, the judiciary is also now not free from its broken impart. However, at this stage, I deserve to issue you in a solid scream with none hesitation that a novel dawdle has already started with some solid steps for institutional reforms to beat this misfortune,” he added.

The manager justice went on to direct, “This ancient second of victory for the pupil-other folks motion has presented us with a golden opportunity to stand by the oppressed and oppressed. We must repeatedly watch out to salvage corpulent utilize of this probability.”

The two-day convention has been organised by Citizen’s Platform for SDGs Bangladesh, with strengthen from the United Countries Building Programme (UNDP), Bangladesh and the Swiss Agency for Building and Cooperation at BICC in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar place.

The gap session was once chaired by Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, convenor of the Citizen’s Platform and renowned fellow at CPD, with audio system including Lamiya Morshed, main coordinator for SDG Affairs on the Chief Adviser’s Residing of labor, Corinne Henchoz Pignani, chargé d’affaires on the Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh, and Stefan Liller, resident representative of UNDP Bangladesh.