Dr. Muhammad Younus, the only Bangladeshi Nobel laureate till date, received a sentence of six months and tiny sum of fine through a court justice on Monday and the whole process created another deep disbelief for judicial system to public imagination. 

“Professor Yunus and three of his Grameen Telecom colleagues were convicted under labour laws and sentenced to six months in simple imprisonment,” lead prosecutor Khurshid Alam Khan told the AFP news agency on Monday.

Most of the legal experts from home and abroad raised their eyebrows about the way the case was handled. In Bangladesh labour law is hardly applied for the sake of labours and the cases take awful lot of times.

It was even seen during the massacre of Rana Plaza, which saw over a thousand workers died hundreds mutilated through a systematic killing, the owners of the building and the factories got reprieve and cases are taking awful lot of time.

One can imagine when a sensational case like Rana Plaza may that lenient to rich and powerful, what is the scenario of myriad other cases! It is learnt from some senior lawyers and journalists that even the cases as old as three decades are still on process.

Younus is a revered man who brought glory and pride for the country. However, he is not beyond the law. But the way his case was treated, the verdict and process completed through an ultra-rapid ride, it raises the suspicion that the judiciary was used for political gain.

The same suspicion has been proved many times about the cases of opposition party activists. Almost all the opposition party activists are bestowed with cases, some inevitably are fake and absolute fabrication. Even the dead people were not spared.

The verdict on Younus has greater ramifications before the election and we shall discuss about it. But it has once again strengthened the belief in public imagination that the judiciary is now just a puppet of the ruling party.

It is a great loss for the nation and its public that the institution which is supposed to salvage and safeguard them has become an apparatus of atrocity and oppression. 

The Boxer: The author is one of the indefatigable working-class Bangladeshis who have been trying to change the fate of the nation but were betrayed by the ruling elites and autocrats. The name is inspired by a character in George Orwell's 1945 novel Animal Farm.