A total of 185,286 women, subjected to physical and mental tortures, have received legal help through toll-free national helpline ‘16430’ since launching of the service in 2016.
Revealing the data of the past three years, Law Minister Anisul Huq said the number of women, receiving government legal aid, is growing day by day, reports BSS on Saturday.
The minister informed that the current government is sincere in checking violence against women and to ensure justice to them, who suffered violence.
"We are providing legal aid free of cost,” he said.
On April 28 in 2016, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched the service for justice seekers marking the National Legal Aid Day.
National Legal Aid Services Organisation (NLASO) assistant director (administration) Kazi Yeasin Habib said people can get legal advices, legal information, counselling, primary information about filing a case and advices regarding national legal aid through the helpline.
“Last year a total of 20,800 people received legal aid by dialling the toll-free number. Of them, 5,500 were women,” Habib said.
The NLASO official said in the age of modern technology, people can avail legal aid services through dialling the number from their mobile phones and land phones, sending text, and using mobile app or facebook messenger.
The NLASO is a statutory body working under the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs to adopt policies and principles for making legal services available under the Legal Aid Services Act, 2000.
