The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain as to why the decision of Dhaka University to stay the appointment of two teachers at department of Arabic, shall not be declared illegal.
A High Court division bench of justices Fatema Najib and Sikder Mahmudur Razi passed the order after holding hearing on a writ petition filed in this regard.
Confirming the matter to media, advocate Arifur Rahman Arif said that the DU authorities published a circular for appointing four lecturers at the department of Arabic in 2016.
Writ petitioners Mohammad Salman and Md Zunaid applied for the posts following the due process. The DU selection board took their viva voce on December 22, 2016, and recommended their names for final nomination. But as they were former students of Tamirul Millat Kamil Madrassah, Bangladesh Chhatra League cadres opposed their appointment process and brought out rallies against it, he said.
The syndicate board after that stayed the recommendations of the selection board and the appointment process of the petitioners, violating article 23 (2) of the Dhaka University Ordinance, 1973, the lawyer added.
Even the DU administration didn’t help or give any information in that regard when the petitioners queried about that. They were subjected to harassments over that, the lawyer further said.