Petition seeks closure of all courts over coronavirus

A rights organisation today filed a writ petition with the High Court, seeking directives on the authorities concerned to close all the courts across the country to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Law and Life Foundation submitted the petition, requesting the court to order authorities to keep quarantine people coming from abroad in the state-designated centres.

The organisation, in the petition, prayed to the HC to ask the government to form a high-powered monitoring committee to examine whether the quarantine centres run properly.

In the petition, the organisation said the academic institution have been closed to keep people safe from coronavirus. But the courts, where a large number of people gather daily are not closed yet, it said.

Th courts need to be closed to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the petition added.

The petitioner's lawyer Barrister Humayun Kabir Pallab told The Daily Star that the HC may hold a hearing on the petition later in the day.