Dhaka Bureau: The High Court has ordered to appoint doctors to vacant posts in all prisons within a month. Today, Tuesday (June 6), the High Court bench of Justice KM Kamrul Quader and Justice Mohammad Shawkat Ali Chowdhury passed the order.
In the hearing regarding this, the High Court commented that there are poor people in prisons. Even if the rich go to jail, there is a division system for them. So save the poor people by quickly appointing a doctor in jail.
Advocate Md. heard on behalf of the writ, JR Khan Robin. Advocate Shafiqul Islam spoke on behalf of the Directorate of Prisons. Deputy Attorney General Sheikh Saifuzzaman and Assistant Attorney General Salim Azad represented the state. At the beginning of the hearing, the petitioner’s lawyer, JR Khan Robin, said that the doctor had not been appointed to the vacant post in the jail.
The court said there is no shortage of doctors in Bangladesh. Doctors can also be seen on the streets. Many are studying medicine in private medical schools. Then the lawyer for the prison department said that 125 doctors had been appointed out of 141 posts. I am insisting on appointing the remaining posts.
The court said to the lawyers of the director general of the health department and the director general of the prison department, “Get out of the letter and appoint them quickly. It has been a long time; he could not implement the court order. Power is not for abuse; it is for serving people. Remember that. Later, the court ordered the prison to appoint a doctor within a month.
