HC begins rule hearing on dispute
Monday, 7 June 2010
The rule hearing on long-pending legal dispute over the leasehold on BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's Dhaka Cantonment house began in the High Court (HC) Sunday.
On the first day of the hearing senior Advocate TH Khan made his submission before the HC division bench of Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana and Justice Sheikh Hasan Arif, reports UNB.
The hearing, which remained inconclusive, will resume today (Monday).
Earlier, Khaleda Zia had expressed her lack of confidence in two separate HC division benches when the matter came up for hearing.
On May 23, Chief Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim sent Khaleda's writ petition to the bench headed by Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana for disposal.
On May 27 last year, the HC upon a writ petition filed by Begum Zia issued a rule asking the government to explain why the impugned May 24 house-vacating notice should not be declared illegal and in violation of the petitioner's fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution.
The HC had also stayed the operation of the notice that asked Khaleda to hand over her leasehold on the cantonment house to the government authorities.
On May 24, 2009, the Directorate of Military Lands and Cantonments (DMLC) served the latest notice with the tone of an ultimatum on Khaleda asking her to leave the house by June 30, as she didn't pay heed to previous notices for vacating the house.
The DMLC had served the notice following a government decision canceling the lease on the house inside Dhaka cantonment.
On April 8 last year, the incumbent government at a cabinet meeting cancelled the lease on the much-talked-about house as the "allocation was not made legally."
The house was allocated to Zia's family after the assassination of President Gen (retd) Ziaur Rahman in 1981.
On the first day of the hearing senior Advocate TH Khan made his submission before the HC division bench of Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana and Justice Sheikh Hasan Arif, reports UNB.
The hearing, which remained inconclusive, will resume today (Monday).
Earlier, Khaleda Zia had expressed her lack of confidence in two separate HC division benches when the matter came up for hearing.
On May 23, Chief Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim sent Khaleda's writ petition to the bench headed by Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana for disposal.
On May 27 last year, the HC upon a writ petition filed by Begum Zia issued a rule asking the government to explain why the impugned May 24 house-vacating notice should not be declared illegal and in violation of the petitioner's fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution.
The HC had also stayed the operation of the notice that asked Khaleda to hand over her leasehold on the cantonment house to the government authorities.
On May 24, 2009, the Directorate of Military Lands and Cantonments (DMLC) served the latest notice with the tone of an ultimatum on Khaleda asking her to leave the house by June 30, as she didn't pay heed to previous notices for vacating the house.
The DMLC had served the notice following a government decision canceling the lease on the house inside Dhaka cantonment.
On April 8 last year, the incumbent government at a cabinet meeting cancelled the lease on the much-talked-about house as the "allocation was not made legally."
The house was allocated to Zia's family after the assassination of President Gen (retd) Ziaur Rahman in 1981.