The High Court today directed the Supreme Court registrar general to form a committee to assess security measures taken for the judges and their families at courts and residences across the country and to submit a report to this court in 90 days.
The court also issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain why their failure and inaction in providing adequate security should to the judges should not be declared illegal.
The HC bench of Justice Sikder Mahmudur Razi and Justice Raziuddin Ahmed issued the order and rule following a writ petition filed by Md Mehedi Hasan of Thakurgaon. He sought necessary directives in the wake of the murder of a judge's son in Rajshahi.
Tawshif Rahman Sumon, son of Rajshahi Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Abdur Rahman, was stabbed to death at their residence on November 13. The judge's wife, Tasmin Nahar, was critically injured in the attack.
On November 16, Mehedi Hasan filed the petition as a public interest litigation through lawyer Omar Faruk, seeking HC directives for the government to ensure proper security for all lower court judges and their family members across the country.
Advocate Omar Faruk appeared for the petitioner, while Deputy Attorney General Md Mehedi Hasan represented the state during today's hearing.