BSS, Dhaka :The Appellate Division yesterday rejected the prosecution’s leave to appeal and upheld the High Court order to set 65 from 60 years as the retirement age of the freedom fighter government service holders and asked the government to present the proposal immediately before a cabinet meeting for its immediate implementation.An Appellate Division bench of the Apex Court headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has passed the order. The other justices of the bench were Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana, Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Hasan Foyez Siddique.Advocate Azharullah Bhuiyan, lawyer for the freedom fighters, told this to Journalists. The proposal for fixing up the retirement age limit for the freedom fighter (FF) government service holders to 65 years from 60 will have to be placed before the cabinet within the next 60 days, Bhuiyan said quoting the court order.In 2006, freedom fighter Jamaluddin Sikder filed a writ at the High Court to fix up the retirement age for the freedom fighters to 65 years as per the directives from the Prime Minister’s Office. On January 14, 2015, a division bench of the High Court comprising Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman had ordered the government to present the proposal before a meeting of the cabinet within 60 days.Then the prosecution filed a “leave to appeal” against the High Court order, but the court rejected the petition.
