The High Court last Thursday declared unconstitutional the rules under which the mobile courts are operated in the country. The High Court verdict on Thursday declared 11 sections of Mobile Court Act 2009, which empowered executive magistrates to conduct mobile court drives, unconstitutional. Azim added that in mobile courts alleged offenders do not get a chance to be represented by a lawyer. Another letter claimed that packaged sugar past their expiration date was being sold in markets in absence of mobile courts. Cabinet secretary Mohammad Safiul Alam said “Mobile courts are our own mechanism to deliver justice on time.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 16, 2017 19:30 UTC