Advocate Dolon: Khaleda Zia deserves symbolic compensation for false case harassment
Dolon said that Begum Khaleda Zia suffered injustice as a citizen and deserved symbolic compensation for the judiciary's failures
Senior Advocate Salauddin Dolon on Wednesday said BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia should be given a symbolic compensation for facing immense sufferings being victim of corrupt state mechanism and unlimited injustice of the legal system in the past.Dolon, a senior advocate of the Supreme Court, made the comments during an appeal hearing at a five-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Wednesday.
As Begum Zia was a worst sufferer of unlimited injustice of the judiciary, she should have been given a symbolic compensation, not as BNP Chairperson rather as a citizen of the country. If a symbolic compensation is given to her, it would be good for the future of Bangladesh," the lawyer told journalists. "I have told the apex court that judiciary is the mainly responsible for polluting the state organizations and developing fascism in the country. The judiciary cannot avoid its responsibility. The situation of the judiciary had deteriorated so badly that the people did not want to go there to seek justice even after killing of their relatives", said the senior lawyer.
He said that Begum Khaleda Zia faced injustice as a human being and a citizen of the country.She (Begum Khaleda Zia) was awarded imprisonment in connection with a money embezzlement case but when that case came to the Appellate Division it was found that Begum Zia did not embezzle any money at all, Dolon added.
