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Review hearing on restoring caretaker government system Sunday

Published : Saturday, 18 January, 2025 at 6:31 PM  Count : 440

The review hearing on the scrapping the caretaker government system of the constitution has been kept in Sunday's Cause List of the Appellate Division of Supreme Court.

According to the website of Bangladesh Supreme Court, the review hearing on the subject has been kept on No. 13 in the Cause List.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Dr Syed Reefat Ahmed on December 1 fixed December 19 for review hearing on the scrapping of caretaker government system.

Senior lawyers -- advocate Joynul Abedin, Sharif Bhuiyan and Mohammad Shishier Manir -- moved for the applicants on that day while Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman moved for the state.

On October 16, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam filed a review petition against the scraping of caretaker government system (13th Amendment) before the Appellate Division.

Earlier, another review petition was submitted to the apex court by Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujon) secretary Dr Badiul Alam Majumdar.

Besides, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Prof Mia Golam Parwar also filed a review petition on the same issue. The court later decided to hear all the petitions analogously.

The 13th Amendment of the constitution incorporating the caretaker government system was adopted by the parliament in 1996. Three lawyers led by Advocate M Salim Ullah filed a writ petition with the High Court challenging the legality of the amendment.
 
The Appellate Division on May 10, 2011 gave a judgment scrapping the 13th Amendment of the constitution.

After the judgment, the Jatiya Sangsad on June 30, 2011 passed the 15th amendment keeping the scraping of the caretaker system with some ratifications. 

A gazette notification was also published in this regard on July 3 in 2011.

Besides, a High Court Division bench comprising Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Debashish Roy Chowdhury on December 17 gave a judgment scraping the 15th amendment mentioning that the Sections 20 and 21 of the 15th amendment are contrary to the constitution.

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