The High Court has put a six-month embargo on a government order that threw Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury out of his office after he was accused in the former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria murder case.
“He can now resume office since there are no more legal bars,” Ariful's lawyer Abdul Hakim Kafi told the Dhaka Tribune on Monday.
Ariful, also a BNP leader, was suspended on January 7, 2015 by the Local Government Ministry after he was arrested and sent to jail on December 30, 2014 in the Kibria murder case.
He moved the High Court on Sunday.
After hearing the writ petition, the bench of justices Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and Justice Ataur Rahman Khan also issued a rule on Monday asking why the suspension order should not be declared illegal.
The home secretary, the LGRD secretary, the Sylhet metropolitan police commissioner, and the Sylhet divisional commissioner, among others, have been asked to respond within four weeks.
Sunday, March 16, 2025
