HC summons Kishoreganj judge
The High Court (HC) yesterday summoned the district and sessions judge of Kishoreganj before it on charge of violating the HC's February 14 order regarding recruitment to the post of process server at his office.
District and Sessions Judge of Kishoreganj AM Md Sayeed has to appear before the HC bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Abdur Rob by 10:30am on August 6 to explain his conduct.
In response to a petition, the bench yesterday also issued a rule upon Sayeed to explain in 10 days why contempt of court proceedings should not be brought against him for violating the HC order.
Abul Kalam Azad, Md Shahidul Islam, Mala Begum and Syed Kudrat-e Khoda, who were dismissed from the posts of process server at the district and sessions judge's court in Kishoreganj in 2007, jointly filed the contempt of court petition with the HC against Sayeed on July 24.
On February 14, the HC directed the district and sessions judge of Kishoreganj to keep reserved four of the seven vacant posts of process server at his office.
The order came after the four petitioners submitted an earlier petition to the apex court asking to keep the posts vacant until disposal of the pending rule over the legality of their dismissal from the posts.
However, on May 17, Sayeed recruited six process servers at his office, defying the HC order, which is a violation of the order and also contempt of the court, said the petitioners' counsel Shafiqul Islam.
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