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| Name: | Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act, 2013. |
| Country: | Bangladesh |
| Subject(s): | Criminal and penal law; Human rights |
| Type of legislation: | Law, Act |
| Adopted on: | 2013-10-24 |
| Entry into force: | |
| ISN: | BGD-2013-L-95798 |
| Bibliography: | Legislation on-line  Laws of Bangladesh, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division, Bangladesh PDF of Act in Bengali (consulted on 2014-04-18) |
| 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. |