Besides the lower courts, the lawyers submitted 150 bail petitions to the High Court on Monday and Tuesday, according to Mohammad Saifur Rahman, the spokesman for the Supreme Court and High Court Division’s special officer. The lawyers presented the arguments through video links provided by the courts while the judges heard the cases remotely. The High Court instructed the government to take measures to save the dolphins of the Halda River in Chattogram in the first virtual order. Lawyers, however, have given mixed reactions to the e-justice system. “The petitioners and the lawyers won’t benefit because it’s something between analogue and digital,” lawyer Parvez Hashem said of the e-justice system.

Source: bd News24 May 12, 2020 20:03 UTC