Law Week
Writ against Mahmudur's remand
Order on April 21
The High Court has fixed April 21 for passing an order on a writ petition challenging the legality of placing Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of Bangla daily Amar Desh, on a 13-day remand in three separate cases. Mahmudur's wife Firoza Mahmud filed the writ petition with the High Court on April 17 saying that the authorities took her husband on remand violating the relevant laws and an HC directive. An accused cannot be taken on remand for more than three days in a phase but Mahmudur was remanded for 13 days, which is against the law, Firoza claimed. After holding hearing on the petition, the HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed on April 18 fixed the date for order. On April 11, police arrested Mahmudur at the newspaper's Karwan Bazar office and put him on 13 days' remand through a local court in three cases.-The Daily Star online edition April 18 2013.
Hearing on Sayedee, govt pleas May 2
The Supreme Court on April 18 fixed May 2 for starting the hearing on appeals filed by the government and Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee against a war crimes trial verdict. On February 28, the International Crimes Tribunal-1, set up to deal with the crimes against humanity cases, handed down death sentence to Sayedee on two wartime offences out of eight. Sayedee on March 28 appealed to the Supreme Court against the death penalty. The government on the same day also filed another appeal with the SC seeking capital punishment for Sayedee on all the charges he was found guilty. The six-member bench of Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain on April 18 fixed the date for the hearing on the appeals following a prayer moved by Attorney General Mahbubey Alam.
Electing President
HC order on writ seeking stay April 21
After hearing arguments from both sides, the High Court on April 17 fixed April 21 to pass an order on a writ petition filed seeking a stay on the April 29 presidential polls.
Eunus Ali Akond, a Supreme Court lawyer, submitted the petition to the HC on April 9, arguing that the “president is not elected democratically by the people” and challenging article 70 of the constitution. The article says, “A person elected as a member of parliament at an election at which he was nominated as a candidate by a political party shall vacate his seat if he resigns from that party or votes in parliament against the party.”
Eunus said the article curtails people's fundamental rights by prohibiting lawmakers from going beyond their own party's choice of presidential candidate.-The Daily Star April 18 2013.
Lungi Ban in Baridhara
HC asks cops about action against issuers
The High Court on April 16 directed the police administration to inform it in four weeks about their steps against the people responsible for barring lungi clad rickshaw-pullers from entering Baridhara area in the capital. The HC bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice ABM Altaf Hossain passed the order on a suo moto move in response to a April 3 report of The Daily Star headlined “Ban slapped on lungi clad rickshaw-pullers”. Baridhara SocietyBaridhara home owners' associationhas instructed security personnel not to let in rickshaw-pullers in lungi, according to the report, requiring them to be in trousers to enter Baridhara, particularly Block K. The court also issued a rule upon the government to explain in four weeks why it should not be directed to take legal action against the president and secretary of the society who allegedly instructed security personnel not to let in lungi clad rickshaw-pullers in that area. Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, deputy commissioner of police of Gulshan zone, officer-in charge of Gulshan Police Station, president and secretary of Baridhara Society have been made respondents to the rule.- The Daily Star April 17 2013.
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