DHAKA: President Abdul Hamid on Tuesday (February 20) approved ‘The Law and Order Disruption (Speedy Trial) (amendment) Bill, 2018 with provision of maximum seven years jail for committing crimes that disrupt law and order situation.

The bill was passed in the Jatiya Sangsad on February 11. Moreover, President also signed the Poet Nazrul Institute Bill, 2018 that has been passed in the ongoing JS session.

The original Law and Order Disruption (Speedy Trial) Act was first framed in 2002. Jail term for disrupting law and order is raised to seven years by amending Section 4 (1) of the previous 2002 Act. 

The trial of some offences disrupting the law and order like extortion, disrupting traffic movement, vandalism, tender manipulation, giving threats, mugging, terrorising people as well as vandalism of public property and immovable property will come within the purview of the amended law as in the existing one.

Under the proposed law, the government on special power will appoint a first class magistrate for conducting the speedy trial court.

BDST: 2118 HRS, FEB 20, 2018
AP