SC adjourns hearing on review pleas over CG for two weeks

The Supreme Court (SC) has adjourned for two weeks the hearing on review petitions for restoration of the 13th amendment to the constitution and reinstatement of the poll-time non-party caretaker government (CG) system, report agencies.
A three-member apex court bench headed by Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam passed the order as the matter came on the cause list for the hearing on Tuesday.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Miah Golam Parwar and Secretary of rights organisation Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik Badiul Alam Majumdar filed the three review petitions in this regard. Three pleas will be heard concurrently.
The High Court (HC) on December 17, 2024, declared scrapping of the caretaker government system in the constitution as illegal.
A HC bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Debashish Ray Chowdhury pronounced the judgment also restoring the provision of referendum in the constitution.
Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman, after pronouncement of the judgment, told the journalists that the HC has declared the scraping of caretaker government provision in the constitution as illegal and from now on the caretaker system is part of the constitution.