Reinstate 1,447 Ansars dismissed over 1994 mutiny: HC

The High Court today directed the government to reinstate the Ansar members among the 1,447 who were dismissed following the Ansar mutiny in 1994.
The Ansars who have physical fitness and service ages will be reinstated within four months after receiving the HC order.
The government will provide pension and other relevant facilities to the Ansars whose retirement ages have already been expired, the court said.
The HC bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Md Badruzzaman came up with the verdict after hearing two separate writ petitions file by the 1,447 dismissed Ansars.
The Ansars, in the petition, said they have got acquittal from the competent court at different times in the case filed following the Ansar mutiny.
The petitioners said that they applied to the authorities concerned of the government in 2000 for instating their services but the authorities did not do so.
According to private news agency UNB, hundreds of Ansar members stood in rebellion against the authorities in 1994 raising different demands.
The mutiny was controlled with the help of army interference.
Following the incident, the case was filed against 2,696 Ansar members leading to their termination from their jobs.
Later in the trial proceedings, a large number of Ansar men were relieved of the mutiny charges, and 1,447 of them filed petitions with the High Court seeking their jobs back.

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