Khaleda's birthday case sent to CJ

A High Court bench yesterday sent a case to the chief justice for a decision regarding celebration of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's birth anniversary on August 15.
The HC bench of Justice Md Momtajuddin Ahmed, however, rejected a petition filed by Khaleda apprehending that she will not get justice from the bench and sent the case to the chief justice for a decision.
Advocate Md Sohrawardy had filed a case on August 20, 1997, with an assistant judge's court in Dhaka seeking an injunction so that Khaleda cannot celebrate her birth anniversary on August 15.
Khaleda on September 16, 1999 filed a revision petition with the HC challenging the legality of the proceedings of the case filed by Sohrawardy.
As the petition was listed for hearing, Khaleda on November 14 last year filed an application with the HC for dropping the case from the cause list as she feared she will not get justice from the bench of this judge.
Khaleda expressed the apprehension since Justice Momtajuddin at his felicitation ceremony at the Supreme Court on March 25 last year said BNP-led four-party alliance government dropped some HC judges including him and also created obstructions at different times so that they cannot get justice.
Sohrawardy on November 16 submitted a petition with the HC bench, saying Khaleda's statement in her petition is contemptuous.
The issues came up before the bench yesterday, as it was the date to hear the petitions filed by Khaleda and Sohrawardy.