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SC stays HC order

27 April 2010, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Staff Correspondent

The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday stayed for a week a High Court (HC) order that directed the government to allow former Islami Oikya Jote lawmaker Mufti Shahidul Islam to go abroad. Chamber judge of the Appellate Division Justice Md Muzammel Hossain passed the order upon a government petition seeking stay on the HC order. The judge also asked the government to file a regular leave to appeal petition with the SC against the HC order within a week. During the hearing yesterday, Additional Attorney General MK Rahman told the court that Mufti Shahidul is a listed war criminal suspect. If he is allowed to go abroad, the investigation into the allegations against him will be hampered, he said, praying to the court to stay the HC order.