The High Court has sought a list of all establishments and infrastructures in Khulna City Corporation (KCC) area that are named after Khan-A-Sabur, a Muslim League leader.
The bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman yesterday asked the Khulna mayor to submit the list within 15 days.
The order was given after the court received a report on the implementation of its November 3 order that asked the KCC authorities to change the name of Khan-A-Sabur Road back to its original Jessore Road within seven days.
Describing the report, which the KCC mayor submitted yesterday, as not proper, the court ordered him to submit a fresh report within 15 days.
The court said it would hear the matters on December 14.
Muslim League leader Sabur was a minister in Pakistan president Ayub Khan’s regime, and collaborated with the Pakistani occupation forces during the 1971 Liberation War.
His name was on a list of 600 war criminals drawn up shortly after the independence of Bangladesh.
Thousands of people from Bangladesh used Jessore Road to flee to India when the war began in 1971.
The court yesterday also wanted to know whether Kushtia’s Islamic University authorities had complied with its previous order to remove another war criminal and Muslim League leader Shah Azizur Rahman’s name from the institution’s auditorium.
The university authorities were present at the session and replied that the order had been implemented.
Azizur was arrested in 1972 and was to be tried for war crimes, but he later became the prime minister during Ziaur Rahman’s regime.
On May 14, 2012, the High Court directed to remove the names of Sabur and Azizur after Dhaka University Professor Muntasir Mamun and journalist Shahriar Kabir filed a writ petition.
“They filed another petition with the court on August 25 this year as the 2012 order was not complied with,” plaintiff’s lawyer AK Rashedul Haq said.