HC sets 17 Dec for final verdict on 15th amendment

The High Court has plan 17 December as the date for the closing verdict on a writ petition hard the legality of the 15th modification to the structure, which abolished the caretaker executive machine.

The bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Debashish Roy Chowdhury supplied the date nowadays (5 December), after concluding hearings the old day (4 December).

On 19 August, the High Court requested the executive to cloak why abolishing the caretaker machine ought to not be declared unlawful, following a writ petition moved by Badiul Alam Majumdar, secretary of SHUJAN, and four others.

The 15th Modification to the Constitution used to be supplied all the method by the Awami League executive, with the bill handed on 30 June 2011 and a gazette published on 3 July 2011.

The modification abolished the caretaker executive machine and elevated the amount of reserved seats for females in parliament from 45 to 50.

It furthermore criminalised the unconstitutional seizure of train energy as treason, punishable by basically the most penalty, constitutionally recognise Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the Father of the Nation, restored secularism and spiritual freedom, and reintroduced nationalism, socialism, democracy, and secularism as train guidelines.

Additionally, it modified the election timeline, requiring elections to be held interior the 90 days preceding the stop of parliament’s term, in want to interior 90 days after the term’s expiry.