Dhaka: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) today adjourned for two weeks the hearing on review petitions pleading for restoration of the 13th amendment to the constitution and reinstatement of the poll-time non-party caretaker government (CG) system. 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 today.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Miah Golam Parwar, and Secretary of rights organization Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik, Badiul Alam Majumdar filed the three review petitions regarding this matter. The three pleas will be heard concurrently.
The High Court on December 17, 2024, declared the scrapping of the caretaker government system in the constitution as illegal. A High Court bench comprising Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Debashish Ray Chowdhury pronounced the judgment, also restoring the provision of a referendum in the constitution.
Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman, after the pronouncement of the judgment, informed journalists that the High Court has declared the scrapping of the caretaker government provision in the constitution as illegal, indicating that from now on, the caretaker system is part of the constitution.