Border guard draft gets final nod

Death to mutineers instead of the present 7-year jail term 

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Dhaka, July 12:The cabinet Monday signed final approval of the draft Border Guard Bangladesh Bill 2010 keeping a provision of awarding death penalty for mutineers. 

The border guards will get a new insignia and new uniform of black, maroon and ash instead of the present olive-maroon colours.   

The cabinet in its Mar 1 meeting approved the draft act in principle and formed a high-powered six-member committee for final scrutiny of the proposed law, with the prime minister's advisers HT Imam and Mashiur Rahman among the members.

  
The proposed law will further toughen penalties for crimes committed by border guards.


It includes a provision of death penalty for mutiny, or disobedience in the field by border guards. The existing maximum penalty under the BDR law is seven years in jail. 

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