The High Court ordered legal action against a former staff of Crescent Jute Mills of Khalishpur in Khulna yesterday, for submitting fake documents regarding his age in order to retain his job.
It asked the Supreme Court Registrar Office to file a case against Abul Hossain, and ordered the Bar Council to take action against AZM Farid, the lawyer for the petitioner, for professional misconduct.
While passing the order, the bench of Justice Moinul Islam Chowdhury and Justice JBM Hassan told Farid not to defile the dignity of the High Court.
The court directed the filing of the case against Abul under sections 195 and 476 of the penal code for which the maximum punishment is life-term imprisonment while the minimum sentence is seven years in jail.
The bench also ordered Dhaka’s chief metropolitan magistrate to issue an arrest warrant against Abul after the filing of the case.
Abul moved to the High Court challenging a decision of the jute mills which asked staff members born in 1952 to retire on December 31, 2012.
However, the petitioner submitted a certificate to the court which stated that he was born in 1962. Following the petition, the High Court, on February 3 last year, issued a rule asking why sending Abul to retirement should not held illegal.
In the certificate, it was also stated that in 1969 Abul was promoted to class IX from class VII at the age of seven for which the bench, led by Justice Moinul, doubted the credibility of the document. The court then ordered Farid to produce the petitioner before it, but he failed to obey the order three consecutive times.
When the lawyer apologised yesterday, the court observed: “Lawyers think deeply before submitting counterfeit documents to a magistrate court. But they are not afraid of the High Court and submit bundles of documents and obtain rules.”
Earlier on Monday, another High Court bench ordered the Supreme Court registrar to take legal action after investigating the two sons of accused war criminal Mir Kashem Ali, who filed a petition seeking discharge from a fraud case by concealing information.
The two accused are Mohammad Bin Kashem alias Salman and Ahmed Bin Kashem. Salman is facing an arrest warrant in the fraud case filed for misappropriating Tk1.5 crore. But the petition said he had been let out on bail.
Concealing information about the warrant, lawyer Ahmed Bin Kashem filed a discharge petition with the High Court in favour of his brother.
