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Bring dynamism in case management: President
DHAKA, Jan 2, 2018 (BSS) – President M Abdul Hamid today asked the judiciary to bring dynamism in case management by using the facilities of Information Technology (IT).
“Necessary steps will have to be taken to carry out official activities of countrywide courts in digital system,” he said while addressing a function on the premises of Bangladesh Supreme Court (SC) marking the Supreme Court Day.
Noting that the “online cause-list” was introduced in the Supreme Court and the “online bail confirmation system” is going on effectively there, the President put emphasis on digitizing all files and records as the “Supreme Court is the Court of Record”.
Abdul Hamid also asked the SC administration to take pragmatic steps for preserving all the activities from filing cases to pronouncing judgments in digital system.
“Measures can be taken to produce the accused before court from the jail and take deposition of witnesses through videoconferencing. The Supreme Court will have to be active to implement the e-Judiciary in days to come as the government is very sincere about it,” he said.
Mentioning that the Supreme Court has the judicial review power, the President urged the judges to perform the major responsibilities with utmost caution.
President Hamid also recalled the significant role of lawyers in establishing justice and the rule of law, and hoped that they (lawyers) would help ensure quick justice for the litigants with their talent, intelligence, wisdom, honesty and sincerity.
“There is no alternative to democracy and good governance for the advancement . . . Maintaining good relations and coordination among legislature, executive and judiciary is very urgent”, President Hamid said.
He asked the three state organs to work jointly giving priority to the welfare of the country and its people saying, “We have to bear in mind that no activity of any state organ hampers the function of others or hinders the national interest.”
The President said, “The role of the Supreme Court is very important in flourishing democracy, ensuring socio-cultural progress and establishing the rule of law.”
He lauded the outstanding performance of the SC which had helped restore democratic rights of country’s mass people through declaring the fifth and seventh amendments of the Construction illegal.
The President also recalled the contribution of the apex court’s judges concerned with due respect as they did not bow their heads to the guns of the vested quarter, rather tried their level best to establish the rule of law across the country.
At the outset of his speech, the President paid rich tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who presented a Constitution on November 4, 1972, aimed at building hunger and poverty free Bangladesh with no discrimination between the rich and the poor.
Acting Chief Justice Md Abdul Wahhab Miah, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq, Attorney General Mahabubey Alam, Bangladesh Bar Council Vice Chairman Abdul Baset Mojumder, Supreme Court Bar Association president Joynul Abedin and judges committee president justice Mirza Hossain Haider also spoke.
Judges, senior lawyers, high civil and military officials were present on the occasion.
Earlier, on the arrival on the SC premises, the President was welcomed by the acting CJ and other judges. President Hamid planted a Spanish Cherry sapling there.
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