A 17-year-old boy was sent to the Juvenile Development Centre in Tongi on Sunday after cancellation of his seven-day remand in police custody following High Court intervention.
A juvenile court in Dhaka sent Hasnatul Islam Faiyaz, a first year student of Dhaka College, to the Juvenile Development Centre cancelling the order for his seven-day remand in police custody for interrogation in a case of killing a police member at Jatrabari during student protests for quota reform on July 19.
Earlier on the day, the聽 High Court directed the government to take step immediately to hand over the 17-year-old juvenile, Hasnatul Islam Faiyaz, a first year student of Dhaka College, to his parents. The High Court also ordered cancellation of the remand order granted by a metropolitan magistrate on Saturday illegally responding to a prayer from the police.聽聽聽
The bench of Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar and Justice SM Moniruzzaman also asked additional attorney general Sk Md Morshed to communicate the court鈥檚 verbal order to the police authorities.
The bench set Monday for passing further order in Faiyaz鈥檚 case.
The High Court took up the juvenile case after jurist and Supreme Court lawyer Shahdeen Malik filed a writ petition on Sunday seeking a directive to the government and the police to free Faiyaz.
Shahdeen Malik and his junior Monjur Alam appearing for the boy, argued referring to the children act that a judge who held the rank of a district judge was vested with the power to deal with a juvenile accused, but a metropolitan magistrate dealt the juvenile case and remanded Faiyaz in police custody in violation of the Children Act that also prohibited police remand of a juvenile accused.
Shahdeen also showed to the court a photograph of Faiyaz in handcuff and tied up with ropes as he was produced before the Dhaka chief metropolitan magistrate鈥檚 court on Saturday afternoon, and 抖阴精品 on Sunday published the boy鈥檚 photograph in that condition.
The Jatrabari police produced Faiyaz in court three days after his arrest on July 14, according to his lawyer Md Estiyak Hossain Zipu.
The High Court judges said that they watched the televised interview of the boy鈥檚 father, who showed the birth registration and educational certificates of his son to prove his minor age, but the magistrate did not consider the documents.
The judges also wanted to know from additional attorney general Sk Md Morshed how the police arrested the boy who was not accused in any cases.聽聽聽
鈥榃hat did you do if your children are there,鈥� the court asked the additional attorney general when he argued that the boy should be kept in jail custody instead of handing him over to his parents.
The court told Morshed that the police often tried to cook up stories to justify their 鈥榤isdeeds鈥�.
The court also said that the government鈥檚 effort to find out those involved in destroying many establishments during the quota reform movement would be frustrated by such 鈥榤isdeeds鈥� of the law enforcement members.聽
The law ministry in a rare press release said that the child was remanded in police custody as there was no document before the magistrate to determine he was a minor.
It further said that the boy鈥檚 remand was stayed by a court after the defence lawyer produced the birth registration certificate and the Secondary School Certificate of the suspect to show him being a minor.
Later, the juvenile court cancelled the child鈥檚 remand and sent him to the Juvenile Development Centre, said the release issued by the ministry鈥檚 public relation officer Md Rezaul Karim.聽聽聽
Law enforcement members are conducting wholesale arrests in hundreds of cases filed over alleged 鈥榲andalism鈥� in key infrastructure during the clashes across the country in July 15鈥�21, according to available police data on Saturday.
Nearly 10,000 people, mostly the leaders and activists of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, were arrested until Sunday during the ongoing curfew imposed by the government from midnight past July 19.