Already 41 posts of district and sessions judges and 205 posts of assistants have been created for the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunals. The government has asked to transfer cases filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act from other courts to the tribunals by the first week of May. These districts did not have Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunals. According to the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000, there will be tribunals at every district court to try the cases filed under the act. Law Minister Anisul Huq told Parliament in February that by December 2017, the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunals were dealing with 165,000 cases.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 04, 2018 14:48 UTC