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Attorney general for reforming HC  

Attorney general Md Asaduzzaman on Monday suggested reforming the High Court Division following the resignation of the chief justice and five Appellate Division judges on Sunday amid allegations of an attempted judicial coup against the interim government headed by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus...

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Bangladesh Chief Justice Obaidul, five AD judges resign

High Court Division’s justice Syed Refaat Ahmed was appointed as chief justice of Bangladesh on Saturday following the resignation of chief justice Obaidul Hassan and five other judges of the Appellate Division amid student protests and allegations of an attempted judicial coup...

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Another commission sought over deaths of 4 children

A writ petition was filed on Wednesday seeking a High Court directive on the government to form a judicial inquiry commission to find out the cause of deaths of four children during the student quota reform movement...

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HC hearing postponed

A two-judge High Court bench on Wednesday could not hold the scheduled hearing of a writ petition that sought the release of six coordinators of the quota reform movement from the custody of the detective branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police...

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Legal process must be followed: HC 

The High Court said on Tuesday that law enforcement agency members cannot keep a citizen in their custody for long without producing an arrested person in court or taking them...

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Stop mockery of nation: HC

The High Court on Monday called ‘a mockery with the nation’ the act of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch chief’s taking meal with six confined coordinators of the Students Movement Against...

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HC asks ACC to dispose of plea for probe  

The High Court on Sunday asked the Anti-Corruption Commission’s chairman to dispose of an application that sought probe into reported Tk 2,770 crore property of former land minister...

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HC seeks report on embezzlement of Tk 100cr

The High Court on Sunday ordered the authorities concerned to investigate the allegations of embezzlement of more than Tk 100 crore of the clients of Homeland Life Insurance Company Limited and submit a report on August 27...

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Killings and repression must stop

ON JUNE 5, a High Court bench declared illegal a government circular issued in 2018, which abolished the 30 per cent quota for the dependents of the freedom fighters. In protest, students from all institutions — schools to universities — started a non-violent movement, which was made violent by the attack on the protesters by the Chhatra League and the police...

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SC sets 7pc quota in govt job amid protests

The Appellate Division on Sunday scrapped the High Court verdict on quota in government job and ordered a 7 per cent quota — 5 per cent for the children of freedom fighters, 1 per cent for national minorities, and 1 per cent for people with disabilities and third genders...

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Govt had better take action on all issues protesters talk of

THE Appellate Division has revoked the High Court verdict of June 5 that ordered the government to reinstate 30 per cent of civil service job reservations for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters. The appeals court in its verdict after hearing two petitions on July 21 brought down the civil service job reservations...

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The wound will cast a long, indelible shadow

THE Appellate Division coming to revoke the July 5 High Court verdict that asked the government to reinstate 30 per cent quotas in government jobs for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters, sparking massive student protests, does not, and will not, heal the wounds that have been inflicted on the nation since July 15...

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Govt appeals against HC verdict on quota

The cabinet secretary on Tuesday filed a petition in the Appellate Division seeking permission to appeal against a High Court verdict that asked the government to maintain...

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Fresh plea in HC over probe on Aziz’s wealth

A fresh writ petition was filed in the High Court last week, seeking a directive for the Anti-Corruption Commission to submit a progress report on its ongoing probe into the alleged illegal wealth, amassed by former army chief general Aziz Ahmed...