Government bactracks on HC stay
The government has temporarily backtracked on moving its petition for vacating the High Court (HC) order that stayed the operations of Speedy Trial Court-5 on the car torching case against 46 opposition leaders and workers.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam yesterday requested the HC not to hold hearing on the petition, filed with the apex court on August 12, and to drop the petition from the hearing list at the moment.
He said the government will produce more related documents and examine whether it had issued any gazette notification empowering Speedy Trial Court-5 of Dhaka for dealing with the car torching case filed by Tejgaon police on April 29.
The HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar dropped the petition from the hearing list, without holding the hearing on it scheduled yesterday.
Following a writ petition filed by Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon, an accused in the case, the HC bench on August 6 stayed for eight weeks the operations of Speedy Trial Court-5 on the case.
It also issued a rule upon the authorities concerned to explain in two weeks why the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court's decision to give judicial powers to Speedy Trial Court-5 to conduct the case should not be declared illegal.
The bench passed the order and the ruling after the government failed to show any copy of gazette notification giving judicial power to Speedy Trial Court-5 to conduct cases having the same nature like that of the arson cases.
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