Staff Reporter :The Supreme Court has upheld the High Court’s injunction over the eviction of the Kalyanpur slum in the city. The apex court also asked the HC to resolve the rule issued on the matter in four weeks.A four-member bench of the Appellate Division of the SC, led by Chief JusticeSK Sinha, delivered the order on Sunday. A bench led by Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury will dispose of the rule, the SC bench said.Attorney General Mahbubey Alam stood for the state, while Dr Kamal Hossain, Barrister M Amir-ul-Islam and Barrister Sara Hossain argued on behalf of the slum dwellers.Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Hasan Foez Siddique on January 24 issued the order after primarily hearing a petition filed by the state against the HC order, and fixed January 31 for hearing at the regular bench.Following a writ petition filed by Ain O Salish Kendra, Coalition for Urban Poor and two slum dwellers, the HC on January 21 stayed for three months the eviction drive in the Kalyanpur Pora Slum. The government on the same day filed the appeal petition with the SC seeking a stay on the HC order.The HC in its order asked the authorities concerned not to evict or harass the slum dwellers ‘without proper allegation’.On that day, the slum dwellers clashed with police when a team of the National Housing Authority went to the slum along with police and magistrate to conduct the eviction drive.
