Chittagong City Corporation has been facing legal challenge over the management of Premier University ( PU).
In the meantime, High Court issued Rule Nishi to Chittagong City Corporation( CCC) why the involvement and intervention to the affairs of PU will not be declared void .
Pending the finalization of the HC rule , the promoter of the PU and former Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury should not be resisted from participating any of the activities of this private university , HC rule said.
HC also asked the CCC to clarify reasons why ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury will not be allowed to form Trusty Board. Following the rule of higher court of Bangladesh, founder of PU and former Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury gets back the authority of running the PU activities again.
Meanwhile after sworn of AJM Nasiruddin as city Mayor , a vested quarters tried to keep away Mohiuddin Chowdhury from any major activities of the university . But after taking shelter of law, Mohiuddin Chowdhury thrown the CCC into challenge over the authority of PU.
A sources of former Mayor Mohiuddin Chowdhury said promoter of the PU Mohiuddin Chowdhury filed a writ petition before the High Court Divison on December 9 last(petition No.12892/2015) and the hearing over the WP held in the bench of Justice Saima Haider and Justice Mostafa Zaman Islam .
In the WP hearing , the counsel of the petitioner Advocate Pravir Neogi presented the background of PU, role of Mohiuddin chowdhury as prime promoter, rules of private university act and UGC role on Pvt university before the bench and after end of hearing, learned High court issued Rule Nishi to CCC .
Another counsel of the writ petitioner Barrister Mohibul Hasan chowdhury told this correspondent that under the act of Private University ordinance, PU is established in 2002 and the prime promoter of this PU was ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhry.
Though the PU is a private university, CCC has no right to run this university because CCC is a public body and the govt sector is not allowed to run a private university . And hence under the rules of UGC , CCC has no right to claim ownership of this private university and no legal rights to interfere the matters of PU further. He further said PU is using the land of CCC and in exchange of that, PU is paying power bill, water bill and premise rent to CCC but in running the PU , CCC has no legal rights to interfere the matter of the private university.
According existing laws of the land, PU is an independent private institution. Barrister Mohibul also said as a promoter of the university, Mohiuddin Chowdhury used to form Trusty Board and all official letters of UGC would sent to PU Registrar earlier but now letters are being sent to CCC Mayor asking the city Mayor to form Trusty Board .
The question of forming Trusty Board by CCC Mayor was placed before the writ petition hearing because there is no scope of involvement of Mayor as per existing law, the counsel said. Barrister Mohibul also told that during the initial period of the establishment of PU, Social scientist Dr. Jamal Nazrul Islam, Dr. AbuYousuf Alam, Dr. Anupam Sen, Dr. Abdul Mannan, Prof. Anowarul Azim Arif, ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury extended key role for success of their concept and there was no role of City corporation and Mohiuddin Chowdhury won’t be eliminated from the major affairs of the PU .
After the end of writ petition hearing , High Court issued Rule Nishi upon UGC , CCC , Education Ministry and Local Govt Ministry saying why the UGC letter to CCC Mayor will not be declared void and the active participation of the PU promoter ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury in constituting the Trusty Board will not be ensured.
Writ petitioner said, HC suspended the activities of UGC letter to CCC Mayor pending final hearing of the rule nishi. At the same time, CCC has been asked not to obstruct the ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhdury in participating any activities of the university as a promoter of PU and HC also directed to run the university activities ensuring the participation of Mohiuddin Chowdhury , sources said.
