Staff Reporter :
The Law Ministry has issued a notification upon all the lower court concerned the country to preserve and display the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at all the courtrooms.
The notification, signed by Taiyobul Hasan, senior assistant secretary of the ministry, was issued on Monday citing a High Court direction to preserve and display the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at all courtrooms across the country within two months.
The HC Bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahsan and Justice KM Kamrul Kader on August 29 passed the order after hearing a writ petition filed by a
Supreme Court lawyer, Subir Nand, in this regard.
The court also issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain as to why the inaction of the respondents in displaying and preserving the portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the courtrooms across the country should not be declared without lawful authority.
Secretaries of the ministries of Law, Housing and Finance, Supreme Court Registrar General and registrar of the High Court Division have to comply with the rule.
Meanwhile, Supreme Court (SC) Registrar General Dr Md Zakir Hossain told the reporters that the SC administration has already collected around 100 portraits of Bangabandhu following the HC directive.
The portraits will be displayed and preserved at the courtrooms of the Appellate Division and HC Division of the SC before reopening of the court, which is on vacation till October 12, the registrar general said.
The Law Ministry has issued a notification upon all the lower court concerned the country to preserve and display the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at all the courtrooms.
The notification, signed by Taiyobul Hasan, senior assistant secretary of the ministry, was issued on Monday citing a High Court direction to preserve and display the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at all courtrooms across the country within two months.
The HC Bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahsan and Justice KM Kamrul Kader on August 29 passed the order after hearing a writ petition filed by a
Supreme Court lawyer, Subir Nand, in this regard.
The court also issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain as to why the inaction of the respondents in displaying and preserving the portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the courtrooms across the country should not be declared without lawful authority.
Secretaries of the ministries of Law, Housing and Finance, Supreme Court Registrar General and registrar of the High Court Division have to comply with the rule.
Meanwhile, Supreme Court (SC) Registrar General Dr Md Zakir Hossain told the reporters that the SC administration has already collected around 100 portraits of Bangabandhu following the HC directive.
The portraits will be displayed and preserved at the courtrooms of the Appellate Division and HC Division of the SC before reopening of the court, which is on vacation till October 12, the registrar general said.
