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BGD-2013-L-95798
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Title_of_text
Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act, 2013.
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Bangladesh
Subjects (Classification)
Criminal and penal law; Human rights
Adopted on (Date of text)
2013-10-24
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
The law stipulates that the police, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), Customs, Immigration, Criminal Investigation Department (CID), intelligence agencies, Ansar & VDP, Coast Guard and other public servants cannot extract confessional statement through torture.
The law says any custodian torturing a detainee would be liable of committing offences defined under the law. Again, any person attempting to commit, aiding and abetting to commit, or conspiring to commit an offence must be considered an offender.
According to the new law, for any death in custody, the custodian would be awarded with rigorous life imprisonment or a fine of Tk100,000. In addition, they must compensate family members of the affected with Tk200,000.
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Legislation on-line
Author
Laws of Bangladesh, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division
Country
Bangladesh
URL
http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/
File
BNG95798.pdf (PDF of Act in Bengali)