Land minister served legal notice

Staff Correspondent
A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday served a legal notice to Land Minister Rezaul Karim Hira, bringing a contempt of court allegation against him for not complying with a High Court (HC) judgement. Following a writ petition, the HC on December 8, 2010 directed the Ministry of Land to appoint 100 selected petitioners including one Mostafa Kamal from Shariatpur to the post of chainman in the ministry. The secretary to the ministry on June 24 this year passed an order to implement the HC verdict and the state minister for land also gave same opinion, but Minister Rezaul is creating obstruction to implement the judgement in a discriminatory manner, said the legal notice sent by Advocate Asaduzzaman Siddique.