Hearing on writ plea challenging legality of holding offices today

The High Court yesterday fixed today for hearing three separate writ petitions filed for challenging the legality of holding offices by the recently-resigned ministers and state ministers.
The HC bench of Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar fixed the date after the petitioners placed the petitions before it yesterday, Deputy Attorney General Al Amin Sarkar told The Daily Star.
Supreme Court lawyers Tuhin Malik and Abdullah-Al Baki, and Abdul Khaleque Moni, editor of the monthly magazine, "Saarc HIV AIDS Madak Barta" filed the petitions yesterday.
They said in the petitions that the offices of the ministers had fallen vacant as per Article 58 (1) of the constitution, as they handed over their resignation letters to the prime minister on November 10 for submitting those to the president.
The article reads, "The office of a Minister other than the Prime Minister shall become vacant if he resigns from office by placing his resignation in the hands of the Prime Minister for submission to the President."