Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST)
1. Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs
2. Inspector General of Prisons
3. Deputy Commissioner, Cox's Bazar
4. Jailor, Cox's Bazar Jail
BLAST filed a writ regarding 338 Burmese (Myanmar nationals) who were incarcerated in the Cox's Bazar District Jail as foreign under trial prisoners for years wholly arbitrarily and without lawful authority, in violation of their fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution. The nature of their crimes were different but mostly under the Foreigners Act and Passport Act. Most of them were languishing in jail over the stipulated time for trial governed by S.339C of the CrPC, and several under trial prisoners had been in jail for periods longer than the maximum term, during which they could have been sentenced if convicted.
Constitution, Articles 27, 31, 32; Code of Criminal Procedure, 35A, 167 & 339C
Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST)
1. Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs
2. Inspector General of Prisons
3. Deputy Commissioner, Cox's Bazar
4. Jailor, Cox's Bazar Jail
BLAST filed a writ regarding 338 Burmese (Myanmar nationals) who were incarcerated in the Cox's Bazar District Jail as foreign under trial prisoners for years wholly arbitrarily and without lawful authority, in violation of their fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution. The nature of their crimes were different but mostly under the Foreigners Act and Passport Act. Most of them were languishing in jail over the stipulated time for trial governed by S.339C of the CrPC, and several under trial prisoners had been in jail for periods longer than the maximum term, during which they could have been sentenced if convicted.
Constitution, Articles 27, 31, 32; Code of Criminal Procedure, 35A, 167 & 339C