SC stays HC verdict declaring 15 August as national holiday

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has stayed a Excessive Court verdict that had declared 15 August as a normal holiday commemorating Nationwide Mourning Day.

The Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed pronounced the verdict on the novel time (2 December), confirmed Aditional Attoney General Aneek R Haque.

Earlier, the period in-between authorities had cancelled this 365 days’s traditional holiday on 15 August.

The cancellation was as soon as authorised at a assembly of the advisory council presided over by Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on 13 August.

The Awami League authorities had been staring at 15 August, the day on which Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his members of the family had been killed in 1975, because the Nationwide Mourning Day.

The day was as soon as being noticed as a category A national holiday.