HC stays 0.2m fine of Shohoz.com

The High Court on Sunday stayed the fine of 0.2 million imposed by the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) to shohoz.com considering a charge of negligence in the process of selling railway tickets brought by a student.
A High Court (HC) bench of justices Md Khasruzzaman and Md Iqbal Kabir passed the order after hearing on a writ petition filed by ticketing platform shohoz.com.
It also issued a rule asking the concerned bodies of the government to explain as to why the decision taken by the DNCRP fining shohoz.com should not be declared illegal.
Commerce Secretary, Director General of the DNCRP, complainant Dhaka University (DU) student Mohiuddin Rony, and two other respondents have been asked to comply with the rule within two weeks.
On July 25, shohoz.com filed the writ petition with the HC challenging the legality of the verdict delivered by the DNCRP fining Tk 0.2 million.
Barrister Tanjib Ul Alam appeared in the court hearing on behalf of the petitioner while Deputy Attorney General Bepul Bagmar represented the state.
Later Mr Tanjib Ul Alam told the reporters that the HC has stayed the fine imposed by the DNCRP. So shohoz.com doesn't need to pay the fine now, added the lawyer.
Mohiuddin Rony, a fourth-year student of the Theatre and Performance Studies Department of the UD, has been holding a sit-in programme in front of the ticket counters of Kamalapur Railway Station in the capital since July 7, protesting the mismanagement of the railway authority. He also gave a memorandum to the Director General of Bangladesh Railway regarding the issue.

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