Coaching of fifty Bangladeshi judges in India cancelled amid diplomatic row

Bangladesh’s interim authorities on Sunday cancelled a deliberate coaching programme for 50 judges and judicial officers in India, scrapping a earlier notification.

“The notification has been cancelled,” a legislation ministry spokesman stated with out elaborating.

The Every day Star newspaper, nevertheless, reported the cancellation got here in compliance with a directive from Bangladesh’s Supreme Court docket.

The cancellation order got here a day after the state-run Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported that fifty decrease judiciary judges would bear a one-day coaching programme from February 10 on the Nationwide Judicial Academy and the State Judicial Academy in Madhya Pradesh.

The trainee judges chosen beneath the programme have been district and classes judges or equal officers, extra district and classes judges, joint district judges, senior assistant judges and assistant judges.

The Indian authorities was speculated to bear all of the bills for the coaching programmes.

India and Bangladesh have witnessed strained ties because the deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to New Delhi on August 5 final yr following an enormous student-led protest that toppled her Awami League’s 16-year regime.

There have been a collection of assaults on Hindu group members and their locations of worship after the interim authorities headed by Muhammad Yunus got here to energy on August 8.

New Delhi has already raised issues with Dhaka, particularly after a Hindu monk was arrested in a sedition case and put in jail after he was denied bail final month.

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