The High Court Wednesday questioned the legality of a Upazila Nirbahi Officer’s authority when giving decisions as the judicial magistrates. The court asked to know as to why two such decisions of the UNO of Batiaghata in Khulna would not be declared beyond jurisdiction and thus scrapped. “These are the jurisdictions of a judicial magistrate, not a UNO who is an executive official. We have told the court that the incident is an assault on the judiciary,” the lawyer told the Dhaka Tribune. He said that an executive magistrate can only conduct the mobile courts, not a judicial court.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 16, 2016 18:23 UTC