A writ petition has been filed at the High Court, seeking a ban on Awami League and cancellation of its registration due to the party鈥檚 involvement in the indiscriminate killings of student protesters during anti-discrimination student movement.
Arifur Rahman Murad Bhuiyan, executive director of rights organisation Sarada Society, filed the petition on Monday.
The hearing on the petition might take place before the bench of justices AKM Asaduzzaman and Muhammad Mahbub Ul Islam.
The petition named secretary to the cabinet, chairman of Anti-Corruption Commission, secretaries of law ministry, election commission, Bank and Financial Institutions Division, chairman of National Board of Revenue, governor of Bangladesh Bank, head of Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit, and coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement as respondents.
Arifur Rahman stated that the petition also requested a directive to extend the tenure of the current interim government to a minimum of three years and to recover Tk 11 lakh crore embezzled abroad.
