The Paper is an in-depth study of the practices prevalent in Bangladesh regarding law making and people's perception as to legal sanctions resulting from such laws bearing colonial resemblance. The critical analysisfocuses on the relation betweenhow the common people perceive law in their public life and its impact in the long run upon the realization of human rights in a developing country. In doing so, the Paper draws upon historical discourseon colonial codification, scrutinizes the existingcolonial drafting patternsfollowed by the law makers in independent Bangladesh, and argues that colonial drafting patterns impede the development of legal consciousness in public life. The Paper also analyses the Bangladeshi attitudes towards compliance as well as non-compliance with law especially focusing on the popular tendency of widespread indifference towards legal sanctions. Taking the Law of Torts, which is highly underdeveloped in Bangladesh, as an example, the Paper shows how lack of legal consciousness breeds impunity leading to a culture of disrespect to human rights.