The Excessive Court docket has started studying out the verdict this day (17 December) on a writ petition no longer easy the legality of the 15th modification to the constitution, which abolished the caretaker authorities system.
The verdict on two writ petitions associated to the 15th modification is listed on the cause checklist of the Excessive Court docket bench comprising Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Debasish Roy at a hearing which started at 10:30am.
Earlier on 5 December, the bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Debashish Roy Chowdhury role the date for turning within the verdict after concluding hearings on the petition.
On 19 August, the Excessive Court docket requested the authorities to level to why abolishing the caretaker system mustn’t be declared unlawful, after hearing the petition filed by Badiul Alam Majumdar, secretary of Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (SHUJAN), and 4 others.
Later, broad hearings had been held over several dates at the side of 30 October, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 20, 25, 27 and 28 November, and 1 December.
Furthermore, on 29 October, the identical Excessive Court docket bench issued a separate rule following a writ filed by freedom fighter Mofazzal Hossain of Naogaon’s Raninagar, no longer easy the validity of 17 provisions of the 15th modification.
This rule puzzled why these provisions mustn’t be declared inconsistent with the constitution. The Excessive Court docket also heard arguments on this rule on 4 December.
In the intervening time, about a political events, at the side of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami and some SC attorneys also positioned arguments before the HC against the 15th modification and in favour of the caretaker authorities system
The 15th modification to the constitution became once launched all thru the Awami League authorities, with the invoice handed on 30 June 2011, and a gazette published on 3 July 2011.
The modification abolished the caretaker authorities system and increased the preference of reserved seats for girls folk in parliament from Forty five to 50.
It also criminalised the unconstitutional seizure of divulge vitality as treason, punishable by the most penalty, constitutionally recognise Sheikh Mujibur Rahman because the Father of the Nation, restored secularism and spiritual freedom, and reintroduced nationalism, socialism, democracy, and secularism as divulge principles.
Furthermore, it modified the election timeline, requiring elections to be held contained within the 90 days preceding the halt of parliament’s time frame, in preference to within 90 days after the time frame’s expiry.
