Law Minister Anisul Huq has rejected the deputy commissioners’ proposal on empowering them to take crimes in cognisance.
The minister has informed journalists about the matter after the meeting with DCs on Thursday afternoon.
Anisul said: “There is no chance of increasing their power to take crimes in cognisance without amending the law.”
“This kind of change will hamper the judiciary after making the judiciary separate from executive on November 1, 2007.”
He further said: “Sheikh Hasina’s government will not take any initiative to amend the law.”
Asked about the DCs’ proposal of increasing the activities of mobile courts, the minister said: “The government is planning to increase the duties of the mobile courts in preventing gambling, early marriage, drug smuggling.”
