Display Bangabandhu portrait in courtrooms
Orders High Court
STAFF REPORTER, Dhaka
The portrait of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman must be displayed and preserved in all courtrooms across the country, the High Court said in its order yesterday. The authorities concerned must carry out the order within the next two months.
In a response to a writ petition, the HC bench comprising Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice KM Kamrul Kader also issued a rule asking the government to explain in four weeks why its inaction to preserve and display the portrait of Bangabandhu should not be declared illegal.
Secretaries to the ministries of law, housing and public works and finance, the Supreme Court registrar
general and the HC registrar have been made respondents
to reply to the rule within four weeks. Supreme Court lawyer Advocate Subir Nandi Das had on August 21 filed the writ petition challenging the inaction of the respondents to preserve and display the Bangabandhu portrait at every courtroom across the country.
In the petition, the petitioner said that there is an obligation for the respondents to preserve and display the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the courtroom as per Article 4 (A) of the constitution but they did not comply with the constitutional provision.
Article 4(A) states: The portrait of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman shall be preserved and displayed at the offices of the President, the Prime Minister, the Speaker and the Chief Justice and in head and branch offices of all government and semi-government offices, autonomous bodies, statutory public authorities, government and non-government educational institutions, embassies and missions of Bangladesh abroad.
