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Bangladesh Government Files Petition to Protect Emergency Provisions  


The government, committed to withdraw the state of emergency before the December 29 national polls, on Sunday filed a petition with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court seeking stay on the High Court verdict which declared illegal and void four provisions of the emergency powers ordinance and rules, especially related to the restriction on seeking bail, appeals against lower court orders and stay on the sentences.

The attorney general, Salahuddin Ahmed, is likely to move the petition this morning before the chamber judge of the Appellate Division, Justice Joynul Abedin, who is to hold a special session of the chamber court to hear the petition, said deputy attorney general Khalequzzaman, also the advocate-on-record for the case.

In the petition, the government sought stay order on the High Court verdict delivered on December 4 saying it would file a regular petition seeking permission against the verdict after obtaining the certified copy.

The High Court bench of Justice ABM Khairul Haque Md Abdul Hye on December 4 delivered the verdict in the public interest litigation writ petition filed by the New Age editor, Nurul Kabir, rights activist Sultana Kamal, also a former adviser to the caretaker government, and Dhaka University law teacher Hafizur Rahman Karzon on June 5.

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