The High Court has issued a contempt of court rule against ten Hazaribagh tannery owners for being failed to shift their units to Savar as per its order.
The owners are Arefin Mamun Al-Amin, Saidul Hoque, Mahbubur Rahman, Abdus Salam, Gias Uddin Ahmed, Rezaul Karim, Wadud Miah, Abdul Ohab, Md Mafiz And Akbar Hossain.
An HC bench of Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam and Justice Zafar Ahmed made the rule on Tuesday in reply to an appeal placed by Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB).
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The bench questioned the 10 tannery owners why the contempt of court rule should not brought against them and asked them to give reply to it within two weeks.
In 2001, an HC bench had ordered the state authorities to shift the tanneries in Hazaribagh to outside of the capital as the HRPB filed a writ petition to it raising a cause of health hazard risk induced by factories to the city dwellers.
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In 2009, the government selected a place in Harindhora area of Savar for the shifting and ordered the owners to shift their tanneries to there through announcing a deadline that ended in this June. Earlier, the deadline, however, was extended for several times in reply to repeated appeals by the owners.
Later, the government submitted aforesaid tannery owners' names to the court as they adopted to dilly-dally method in following the state order and at last they sought a two-year extension for the shifting.