HC keeps Rajuk boss, 6 top officials standing
A High Court bench yesterday kept seven government high officials including the Rajuk chairman and Kushtia deputy commissioner (DC) standing before it for defying its orders.
Kushtia DC Abdul Mannan was kept standing on the court's dock from 11:00am to 4:00pm, with an hour's lunch break, for violating its order asking to stop sand extraction from river Gorain in the district.
The HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain kept him and other officials standing.
The court also asked Mannan to appear before it this morning (Wednesday) in connection with the contempt of court petition filed by one Anwarul Haque Masum, a contractor in the district.
During Mannan's five-hour-long standing at the dock, the court kept him just there without allowing him to talk while it heard the other cases.
Apart from the DC of Kustia, the contemner officials are Rajuk Chairman Md Nurul Huda, Dhaka Medical College Hospital Director Brig Gen Shahidul Haque Mallik, its Director Khizir Ahmed and Deputy Director Khalilur Rahman, Director General of the Directorate General of Health Service (DGHS) Shah Monir Hossain and Senior Assistant Secretary to the Ministry of Health and Family Planning Shawkat Rashid Jong.
However the court exempted them, as they offered “unconditional apologies” to it, and promised through their counsels not to ignore its orders in future.
The six were standing before the court for about an hour.
Brig Gen Shahidul Haque Mallik, Shah Monir Hossain and Shawkat Rashid Jong appeared before the court as per its earlier order in connection with a contempt petition filed by one Belal Hossain and others.
The plaintiffs filed the petition on May 31 this year, as the DMCH authorities did not appoint them as its class-III employee despite an earlier HC ordered to do so.
The Rajuk chief and other officials faced the contempt charges, as they violated the court order to provide the petitioner Mizanur Rahman, a construction contractor of Dhaka City Corporation, with relevant papers.
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