Failing to Appear Before HC
Contempt rule against Prof Ershadul Bari
The High Court yesterday issued a contempt of court rule against Prof Ershadul Bari, former vice chancellor of Bangladesh Open University (BOU), for not appearing before it as per its earlier summons order.
In the rule, the court asked Prof Bari to explain why he should not be punished for committing contempt of court.
Earlier on March 5, the HC summoned the former BOU VC to appear before it on March 12 (yesterday) in connection with a charge of distorting the history of the War of Liberation in two textbooks he had written for the BOU students in 2000.
On that day, Dhaka University Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof Harun-or Rashid brought the charge against Prof Bari. Prof Harun also told the court he heard that Prof Bari is now in Malaysia.
During the hearing of a writ petition, it ordered the Inspector General of Police and Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner to ensure appearance of Prof Bari before it on April 10 in connection with the rule.
Meanwhile, 29 people, most of whom are academicians, appeared before the HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim as per its March 5 order.
They have to appear before the HC bench today in the same connection as per its yesterday's order, Deputy Attorney General ABM Altaf Hossain told The Daily Star.
Supreme Court lawyers Altaf Uddin Ahmed and Mahmud Hossain filed the petition with the HC in January 2010, saying that Sociology second paper and Civics second paper of HSC under the BOU termed late president Ziaur Rahman the individual who had declared the country's independence, although the HC in a verdict in 2009 ruled that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the declarer of the independence.
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