The High Court has issued a rule, asking the government why an order to make public the probe report on the attacks on minority communities after the 2001 elections should not be issued.
In the rule issued on Wednesday, it has asked the home secretary to submit the report within February 2.
The bench comprising Justice Kazi Rezaul Haque and Justice ABM Altaf Hossain has issued the rule in response to a petition filed by Manzill Murshid.
Earlier in 2009, the government formed a commission to investigate the incidents of violence that took place after the 2001 parliamentary elections.
Later, the judicial commission had made a report of the 2001 post-polls violence mentioning over 3,625 incidents of major crimes including killing, rape, arson and looting by cadres of the then ruling BNP-Jamaat alliance.
Of the incidents, the commission described 355 as politically motivated murders while 3,270 were incidents of rape, arson, looting and other atrocities.
On April 25, 2011, Member secretary of the commission Monwar Hossain, deputy secretary of the home ministry, handed over the report to the then Home Minister, Sahara Khatun.