The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the High Court's order, directing Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami's acting secretary-general ATM Azharul Islam and Islami Oikya Jote's president Fazlul Haque Amini to appear before the High Court to explain the remarks they had reportedly made while criticizing the Constitution and the Supreme Court in separate meetings.
The Appellate Division's chamber judge, Syed Mahmud Hossain, passed the 'no order' after the counsels of Azharul and Amini filed separate petitions seeking permission to appeal against the High Court's order, and also sought a stay on its operation.
On Monday, the High Court bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore directed Azharul to appear before it on August 8 for 'committing contempt of court' by saying on July 19 that the Awami League-led government had used the Supreme Court to abolish the provision of election-time caretaker government as the ruling party wants to continue in power by holding elections under its own supervision.
On July 20 the same bench directed Amini to appear before it on August 2 to explain why he had said that the amended Constitution 'would not only be thrown away but would be thrown into the dustbin' at a meeting with the Bangladesh Islamic Ain Bastabayan Committee in his office at Lalbagh on July 14, which was published in the daily Amar Desh on July 15.
Source : New Age
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