Stay order extended

The High Court yesterday extended a stay order for six more weeks on Dhaka University's new admission rules disqualifying Aleem graduates from admission to seven departments of the university.
The HC passed the suo moto order when the petitioners' counsel prayed for hearing of a writ petition challenging the legality of the university's new rules.
Barrister Belayet Hossain, counsel for the writ petitioners, told The Daily Star yesterday that the stay order was scheduled to end on December 30. Now it was extended for six more weeks.
He also said that no lawyer for the university was present in the court during the passage of the order.
However, Shahdeen Malik, counsel for Dhaka University, said there was no legal bar on DU authorities publishing the results of the admission tests of the seven departments.
On December 2, an HC bench, upon an application, stayed for four weeks the new admission rules disqualifying Aleem graduates from admissions to departments of Bangla, English, international relations, mass communication and journalism, economics, women and gender studies, and linguistics.