HC asks LGRD secretary, BCSIR chief to appear Aug 18
The High Court (HC) yesterday directed LGRD and Cooperatives Secretary Manzur Hossain and BCSIR Chairman SM Imamul Huq to appear before this court on August 18 in connection with a contempt of court petition filed against them.
The petition was filed against them on charge of not complying with an HC order that on March 15 this year directed them to get a report from the World Health Organisation on whether there is trihalomethane (THM) in water supplied for the city dwellers, and to submit the report to it within four weeks.
An HC bench of Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury and Justice Farah Mahbub also issued a rule upon them to explain within two weeks why contempt of court proceedings should not be brought against them for ignoring its order.
The bench came up with the order following a contempt of court petition filed by Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB).
Advocate Manzill Murshid appeared for the petitioner.
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