Staff Reporter :
The High Court [HC] division of the Supreme Court has issued a rule asking the authorities of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka as to why it did not implement the directives of HC and Appellate Division of the Supreme Court about issuance of SSC and HSC mark-sheets to the examinees.
A two-member High Court bench comprising of Justice Syed Mohammad Dastagir Hossain and Justice AKM Shahidul Hoque passed the rule on Sunday against Education Secretary, Chairman and Controller of Dhaka Education Board terming the disobeying of court orders as ‘intentional and preplanned’.
The court also asked the officials concerned to explain the reasons behind ‘the ignorance to the court orders’ being physically present in the court within two weeks.
Earlier, the HC on April 21, 2015 and the Appellate Division on December 22, last year, had given directives to education board authorities to provide mark-sheets to the examinees of SSC, HSC and other equivalent examinations.
But the country’s education boards did not implement the directives of the HC and Appellate Division, although one year has already passed.
No mark-sheet was provided to the students, whereas, results of the Secondary School Certificate [SSC] and the Higher Secondary Certificate [HSC] examinations of 2015 were published after the directives.
Meanwhile, the result of HSC is also going to be published within a few days, but the authorities are yet to provide the mark-sheets as per the court direction, the sources said.
K.M. Salahuddin Khan, an advocate of the Supreme Court, appeared to the apex court (HC) to address on the issue. He said, “The education board authorities are bound to follow the court order. But they are ignoring the HC order and, it is nothing but contempt of court.”
Last year, the court had given the directives in response to a writ petition filed by an HSC examinee, M. Nafees Salman Khan of Government Nazrul College.
Explaining the reasons of the writ petition, Advocate Salahuddin Khan told the apex court, Nafees Salman Khan passed HSC in 2010 with a GPA of 4.30. But he was not satisfied with this result. He applied for his transcripts and re-examination of his answer papers.
As the board authorities did not take any initiative in this regard, Nafees moved to the apex court seeking an order for get his mark-sheet.
