Distortion of History
6 exempted from appearing at HC
The High Court yesterday exempted six academics from personal appearance before it in connection with the allegation of distorting the history of the War of Liberation in two Bangladesh Open University (BOU) textbooks.
The academics are BOU Vice Chancellor Prof RIM Aminur Rashid, Dhaka University Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof Harun-or Rashid, Prof Shawkat Ara Hossain, Prof Sabiha Sultana, HM Delwar Hossain and Jobeda Akter, said Deputy Attorney General ABM Altaf Hossain.
During the hearing on a writ petition, the HC passed the exemption order considering their health conditions.
The HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim also adjourned the hearing of the petition till April 16.
Altaf said the remaining 18 academics against whom the HC recently issued a summons would have to appear before it on April 16.
All of them appeared before the bench yesterday as per its March 12 order, he said.
Supreme Court lawyers Altaf Uddin Ahmed and Mahmud Hossain filed the petition with the HC in January 2010, saying that Sociology 2nd paper and Civics 2nd paper of HSC under the BOU termed late president Ziaur Rahman as the individual who had declared the country's independence, although the HC in a verdict in 2009 ruled that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared the country's independence.
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