SC stays HC's compensation order on factory owners
The Supreme Court yesterday stayed until Thursday a High Court order that directed the tannery owners to pay Tk 30.85 crore compensation for polluting the environment and failing to relocate their factories to Savar Tannery Industrial Estate.
Chamber judge of the Appellate Division Justice Syed Mahmud Hossein gave the order following a petition filed by the tannery owners seeking stay on the HC order.
The chamber judge also sent the stay petition to the full bench of the Appellate Division for its hearing on Thursday, Barrister Mehedi Hasan Chowdhury, a lawyer for the tannery owners, told The Daily Star.
On March 2, the HC directed 154 Hazaribagh tannery owners to pay the government Tk 30.85 crore within two weeks for polluting the environment, and ruled that the tannery owners will face serious consequence if they don't deposit the money to the state fund in line with its directive.
Earlier in July last year, the Appellate Division ordered that every tannery owner must pay Tk 10,000 a day for damaging and polluting the environment in the area and also ordered the owners to shift their businesses to Savar.
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