The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court docket has upheld the High Court docket’s decision to scrap five labour circumstances filed in opposition to Nobel Laureate and intervening time government’s Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus.
A bench led by Senior Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam rejected the declare’s petition valuable the sooner High Court docket verdict on the present time (8 December).
Extra Attorney Widespread Anik R Haque represented the declare in court, whereas Recommend Mustafizur Rahman Khan appeared for Yunus.
On 24 October, the High Court docket bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain scrapped the circumstances by resolving the rule issued earlier on this matter.
Following this, the declare appealed to the Appellate Division.
The lawsuits originated in 2019 when three now not too long ago terminated workers of Professor Yunus’ organisation, Grameen Communications, filed circumstances at Dhaka’s Third Labour Court docket.
The complainants had been Abdus Salam, Shah Alam, and Emranul Haque.
In the similar Twelve months, two extra circumstances had been filed by Hossain Ahmed and Abdur Gafur.
Professor Yunus subsequently petitioned the High Court docket in 2020 to brush apart these circumstances. The High Court docket had issued a rule at that time and, following separate hearings, handed its verdict on 24 October this Twelve months.
