SC adjourns hearing on FFs' minimum age until March 12

The Supreme Court (SC) has adjourned until March 12 the hearing on an appeal challenging the High Court (HC) judgment that declared illegal the government circulars and gazette notifications regarding minimum age of freedom fighters (FFs), reports BSS.

"Heard in part and adjourned to March 12," said a four-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Tuesday.

Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman took part in the hearing for the state, while Barrister Omar Sadat argued for the writ petitioners.

The government in 2014 issued circular fixing the minimum age of freedom fighters at 13 years in 1971. A gazette notification was issued in this regard on November 10, 2016. But the government on January 31, 2018, amended it, fixing the minimum age of freedom fighters at 12 and a half years in 1971.