The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today (March 2) fixed May 8 for holding hearing on four separate review petitions filed challenging its 2011 verdict scrapping the non-party caretaker government system.
A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam set the date after Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman prayed for fixing the date.
On February 11 the apex court deferred for two weeks the hearing of the review petitions.
BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, five citizens and Md Mofazzal Hossain, a freedom fighter from Naogaon, lodged the four review petitions with the Appellate Division last year to turn down its 2011 verdict that scrapped the caretaker government system.
The first review petition was lodged by five citizens including Badiul Alam Majumdar, secretary of rights organisation Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik, on August 27 last year, saying that the caretaker government system had been introduced through political consensus of the people and therefore, it has become a basic structure of the constitution, which cannot be scrapped.
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