The practice of obtaining remands for suspects or the accused from judicial magistrate courts is unconstitutional. From January to August of 2021, legal rights organization Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) reported 44 deaths in judicial custody. In addition, hundreds of police officers were deployed in peacekeeping under UN missions abroad training them in human rights. Human rights abuses are endemic and most citizens who come in contact with the police complain of corruption and torture. The police bundled up their learning experience from the police reforms initiative and instead resorted to torture in judicial custody in name of extracting “vital” information needed for their investigations.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 21, 2021 04:41 UTC