The Supreme Court has stayed a High Court order that on Wednesday directed the government to take back the wheat imported from Brazil if anyone wanted to return it.
Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Justice Hasan Foez Siddique gave the order yesterday in response to a petition filed by the government on Wednesday’s High Court order.
The judge also sent the petition to the Appellate Division’s full bench for hearing on July 26. This means the stay order will be in effect until the petition is disposed of.
The High Court on Wednesday also directed the government not to force anyone to consume the wheat imported from Brazil. The court observed there was no report before the court that the wheat, which had already been distributed, caused illness or harm to anybody’s health.
“Based on the report of the Directorate General of Food, the court said the wheat is perhaps all right and suitable for human consumption,” Deputy Attorney General Tapash Kimar Biswas said on that day.
But the court also mentioned some of the local laboratories that claimed they had found insects in the wheat, he said.
