Staff Reporter :
A writ petition was filed on Sunday with the High Court (HC) seeking its directives to form an inquiry committee to find out the reason and persons responsible for the unprecedented and drastic fall of price of rawhides during the Eid-ul-Azha this year.
Barrister Mohiuddin Md Hanif, a Supreme Court lawyer, filed the petition. Yesterday two HC benches expressed unwillingness to hear the petition. The petitioner said that he would submit the petition in
another court on Monday.
In the petition, the lawyer prayed to the court to issue a rule upon the respondents to show cause as to why inaction and failure of the respondents to prevent unprecedented and drastic price fall of rawhides and skins across the country shall not be declared to be illegal.
Secretaries of Commerce and Industries, Bangladesh Tanners Association’s Chairman and Bangladesh Hide and Skin Merchants Association’s President have been made respondents in the writ petition.
The lawyer said in the petition, “Leather and leather-products are the second largest export items of Bangladesh. Fifty percent demand of raw materials for making leather and leather goods are collected in qurbani season, but targets have not been fulfilled. Rather seasonal and small traders alongwith madrasah, lillah boarding and orphanages suffered unprecedented and drastic low price of rawhides and skins as the respondents have failed to ensure the fair price or even the price fixed by the government.”
“Earlier jute was the country’s number one export item, but due to lack of proper care and negligence this sector has been almost ruined. Now leather industry, which is the country’s second largest export earning item and that Bangladesh meets a significant portion of the global demand, cannot be allowed to go in chaotic and crucial situation,” also read the writ petition.
A writ petition was filed on Sunday with the High Court (HC) seeking its directives to form an inquiry committee to find out the reason and persons responsible for the unprecedented and drastic fall of price of rawhides during the Eid-ul-Azha this year.
Barrister Mohiuddin Md Hanif, a Supreme Court lawyer, filed the petition. Yesterday two HC benches expressed unwillingness to hear the petition. The petitioner said that he would submit the petition in
another court on Monday.
In the petition, the lawyer prayed to the court to issue a rule upon the respondents to show cause as to why inaction and failure of the respondents to prevent unprecedented and drastic price fall of rawhides and skins across the country shall not be declared to be illegal.
Secretaries of Commerce and Industries, Bangladesh Tanners Association’s Chairman and Bangladesh Hide and Skin Merchants Association’s President have been made respondents in the writ petition.
The lawyer said in the petition, “Leather and leather-products are the second largest export items of Bangladesh. Fifty percent demand of raw materials for making leather and leather goods are collected in qurbani season, but targets have not been fulfilled. Rather seasonal and small traders alongwith madrasah, lillah boarding and orphanages suffered unprecedented and drastic low price of rawhides and skins as the respondents have failed to ensure the fair price or even the price fixed by the government.”
“Earlier jute was the country’s number one export item, but due to lack of proper care and negligence this sector has been almost ruined. Now leather industry, which is the country’s second largest export earning item and that Bangladesh meets a significant portion of the global demand, cannot be allowed to go in chaotic and crucial situation,” also read the writ petition.
