The full bench of Appellate Division of Supreme Court will hear a leave to appeal petition filed against the High Court judgment that reinstated 30% freedom fighter quota in government service.
The Chamber Judge of the Supreme Court has fixed the date in a special hearing on Thursday.
On that day, the plea has been kept in the serial number three of the cause list for hearing.
A special chamber judge led by Justice M Enayetur Rahim passed the order on Thursday due to the ongoing violence.
Attorney General AM Amin Uddin stood on behalf of the state.
At the hearing, the attorney general requested to bring forward the date of appeal hearing of the case.
Later, the court set the date.
The leave to appeal was filed on Tuesday.
Earlier, attorney General AM Amin Uddin said the state will plea before the apex court on Sunday to bring forward date to hear leave to appeal petition filed against the High Court’s quota judgment.
“I have received direction from the government to expedite the hearing on leave to appeal plea filed in this regard. I would mention the matter before the Appellate Division on Sunday morning and hope that the court would accept my plea, considering the importance of the matter. We would plea to quash the High Court judgment in the hearing,” the attorney general told newsmen at his office this afternoon.
Meanwhile, two students on Thursday filed a leave to appeal against the High Court order.
Advocate Shah Manjurul Haque filed the leave to appeal on behalf of the two students in the relevant branch of the Appellate Division.
On July 14, the full verdict of the High Court declaring the circular to cancel the quota system in the first and second class government jobs, including freedom fighters, was published.
On June 5, the High Court declared invalid the decision to cancel the quota system of first and second class freedom fighters in government jobs. The High Court bench of Justice KM Kamrul Quader and Justice Khizir Hayat declared the ruling as appropriate.
Later, on June 9, the state filed an application to suspend the judgment of the High Court.