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A welcome High Court order that govt must comply with

The High Court’s order to halt the construction of the elevated expressway extension through Panthakunja Park and Hatirjheel, while directing the government not to block public access to the vital urban spaces, is welcome. The ruling follows a writ petition filed by green activists, university teachers and Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement members. It reaffirms what...

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HC halts expressway extension thru Panthakunja, Hatirjheel

The High Court on Wednesday ordered the government to stop the construction of an elevated expressway extension from the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation to the Plassey crossing through the Panthakunja Park and the Hatirjheel water body in the capital...

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Kurigram ex-DC gets bail for six months

The High Court on Tuesday granted bail to Kurigram’s former deputy commissioner Sultana Parvin for six months in a case filed over torturing journalist Ariful Islam Rigan...

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VP aspirant files writ petition seeking reinstatement of candidacy

Amartya Ray John, a vice-president aspirant in the Jahangirnagar University Central Students’ Union election, filed a writ petition with the High Court on Monday, seeking reinstatement of his candidacy and inclusion of his name in the voter list...

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Court asks to submit probe report in 90 days

The High Court on Wednesday asked the authorities to submit a detailed report on the death of a 32-year-old woman, Faria Tasnim Jyoti, who fell into an uncovered manhole in Tongi in Gazipur and died on July 27, within 90 days...

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Govt must comply with verdict on SC secretariat without delay

THE High Court verdict of September 2 that directed the government to establish a separate secretariat in the Supreme Court and to vest full disciplinary control over subordinate court judges in the apex court is a welcome development. The judgement came in response to a public interest litigation writ petition filed by a group of Supreme Court lawyers after the fall of...

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No scope for govt not to save Dhaleshwari from pollution

THE High Court’s recent directive to restore the River Dhaleshwari and hold encroachers and polluters accountable is a welcome step. The river is under severe threat from unchecked encroachment and industrial pollution. The High Court directed the National River Conservation Commission, the deputy commissioner of Dhaka and the Inland Water Transport Authority...

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HC restores SC control over lower judiciary

The High Court on Tuesday ordered the government to establish a separate secretariat in the Supreme Court in three months after investing full disciplinary control over subordinate judges in the apex court.

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HC judge resigns amid SJC probe

High Court judge Md Akhtaruzzaman has tendered his resignation to the president, Mohammad Shahabuddin, amid a Supreme Judicial Council inquiry into his alleged misconduct.

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CJ administers oath to 25 new additional HC judges

Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Tuesday administered the oath of office to 25 newly appointed additional judges of the High Court Division, raising the total number of High Court judges to 113...

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HC summons Sylhet officials

The High Court on Sunday ordered the Sylhet divisional commissioner and the district’s deputy commissioner to personally appear before the court and explain their positions on the stone extraction from the protected areas...

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HC defers hearing plea to quash ex-CJ Khairul proceedings

The High Court on Sunday deferred until October 29 the hearing of a petition filed by former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque to quash the proceedings related to him in a murder case linked to the July 2024 uprising...

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Discharge of HC rule by AD judicial anarchy: SC

In a strongly worded full verdict, the Appellate Division has observed that if it discharges a rule issued by the High Court under article 102 of the constitution the decision amounts to ‘judicial anarchy’ and is unconstitutional and void from the outset...

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HC seeks Bholaganj stone looters’ list

The High Court on Thursday directed the authorities to prepare a list of individuals involved in looting white stones from the Bholaganj stone quarry in Sylhet’s Companiganj upazila and submit it within 60 days...

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HC defers ex-CJ Khairul’s bail hearing to Aug 17 amid chaos

The High Court on Monday deferred the hearing on former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque’s bail petition and plea to quash a murder case against him to August 17, following chaos in the courtroom between pro-Awami League lawyers and government law officers.

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HC begins delivering verdict

The High Court on Sunday began delivering its verdict in a landmark custodial death case involving the killing of Urdu-speaking youth Ishtiaque Ahmed Jony who died in police custody at Pallabi police station in 2014...

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Growing case backlog warrants early, effective intervention

THE number of cases pending with the courts has reached a little more than 4.33 million as of March. Subordinate courts have about 3.69 million cases pending, the High Court Division of the Supreme Court 599,000 cases pending and the Appellate Division 34,926 cases, as ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· reported on August 10. There were about 4.05 million cases, keeping to Supreme Court...

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Judiciary’s call for independence no bid for hegemony: CJ

Chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Sunday emphasised that the judiciary’s demand for an independent Supreme Court secretariat should not be read as a bid to grab power, but rather as part of a long-standing struggle for institutional parity with the executive and the legislature.

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HC verdict in jony’s custodial death today

The High Court is scheduled for today to deliver verdict in the appeal filed by three convicted police personnel against a lower court judgement that jailed them for life for the custodial death of car driver Ishtiaq Hossain Jony in 2014...