The High Court on Sunday ordered the authorities concerned to take necessary steps within 30 days to stop DJ party, dance, bullying and obscenity at educational institutions in the name of rag day.
The bench of Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah and Justice Khizir Hayat passed the order after hearing a writ petition filed by a lawyer.
The court also issued a rule asking the government to explain as to why the inaction of the authorities concerned in stopping DJ party, dance, bullying and obscenity at the educational institutions in the name of rag day should not be declared illegal.
Secretaries to the Education Ministry, Information Ministry, Cultural Affairs Ministry, University Grants Commission Chairman, vice chancellors of Dhaka University, Rajshahi University, Jahangirnagar University, Khulna University and Barisal University, inspector general of police, and director general of the Department of Secondary and High Secondary Education were made respondents to the rule which is returnable in four weeks.
On April 7, Advocate Mohamamd Quamrul Hasan filed the writ petition.
According to the writ petition, some educational institutions organize DJ party in the name of rag day, and the images and footages of those parties go viral on social media.
The teachers are supposed to guide students to build their lives with moral values, but under the patronage of educational institutions such immoral activates are going on. So it is necessary to stop these activities to save the next generation from this bad culture, it said.