HC clears way for resumption of Sylheter Dak

The High Court yesterday cleared the way for the authorities concerned to resume running publication of the Sylheter Dak, a daily published from Sylhet.

The court stayed the government's decision to cancel the declaration of the daily owned by industrialist Ragib Ali and his son Abdul Hye.

Sylhet district administration cancelled the declaration on June 15 this year as its publisher Ragib Ali and Abdul Hye were found guilty of forging legal documents for grabbing an endowed property in Sylhet and sentenced to six years' imprisonment.

Yesterday, the HC bench of Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and Justice Md Ataur Rahman Khan stayed the cancellation of the declaration of the daily, launched in 1984, following a writ petition filed by Ragib Ali.

Ragib Ali's lawyer AM Aminuddin told The Daily Star that there is no legal bar for his client to run the publication of Sylheter Dak following the HC order.