SC keeps mum on govt plea for stay
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
The apex court Tuesday turned a deaf ear to government plea for staying the operation of a High Court (HC) interim direction for the law not to disturb in any manner the daily Amar Desh acting editor and two others in a defamation suit filed in Magura, reports UNB.
Justice SK Sinha of the vacation bench of the Appellate Division pronounced "no order" when Attorney-General Mahbubey Alam moved a stay petition against the interim HC order.
As a result, the HC order remains in force, giving immunity to the accused against the arrest warrant issued by the Magura court, SC sources said.
On December 22, a one man vacation bench of the HC following a petition asked the law not to disturb in any manner Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman, its publisher Hasmat Ali and special correspondent M Abdullah and set January 3, the court's reopening day, for hearing in a regular HC division bench on the anticipatory bail petition in connection with the defamation suit.
The HC order had come when they surrendered before the court and sought anticipatory bail as the lower court issued arrest warrant against them on a charge of publishing 'false report' about Prime Minister's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and Energy Adviser Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, Bir Bikram.
Justice SK Sinha of the vacation bench of the Appellate Division pronounced "no order" when Attorney-General Mahbubey Alam moved a stay petition against the interim HC order.
As a result, the HC order remains in force, giving immunity to the accused against the arrest warrant issued by the Magura court, SC sources said.
On December 22, a one man vacation bench of the HC following a petition asked the law not to disturb in any manner Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman, its publisher Hasmat Ali and special correspondent M Abdullah and set January 3, the court's reopening day, for hearing in a regular HC division bench on the anticipatory bail petition in connection with the defamation suit.
The HC order had come when they surrendered before the court and sought anticipatory bail as the lower court issued arrest warrant against them on a charge of publishing 'false report' about Prime Minister's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and Energy Adviser Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, Bir Bikram.