Refrain Sherpur dist magistrate from duty
HC asks govt
The High Court yesterday asked the government not to give any magisterial duty to Sherpur district magistrate Ismat Ullah till October 25 for beating a union parishad membership candidate at a polling centre in the district.
Ismat reportedly beat Golam Mostafa, a union parishad membership candidate, at Dupuria Primary High School polling centre at Jhinaigati Upazila in Sherpur as he tried to enter a polling booth during vote casting on June 18 this year.
A Bangla daily on June 19 reported that Mostafa left the polling centre and refrained from contesting the election as he could not tolerate the insult.
During hearing a rule, the HC yesterday rejected a petition submitted by Ismat seeking exemption from personal appearance in the the court in connection with the rule.
Ismat appeared before the court yesterday morning as per its August 9 order,
The bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore yesterday also directed the district magistrate to further appear before it on October 25 during hearing on the rule.
Advocate Manzill Murshid filed the writ petition on behalf of Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh on August 9 seeking HC directive on the government to take legal action against the district magistrate.
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