Govt challenges HC verdict on warrant of precedence
February 7, 2010
The government on Sunday filed a petition with the Supreme Court seeking stay on a High Court verdict declaring illegal the existing Warrant of Precedence.
An HC bench on Thursday directed the government to issue a new Warrant of Precedence for the republic’s officers, giving district judges and equivalent judicial officers precedence over the chiefs of armed forces, and government secretaries.
The Attorney General’s Office filed the petition with the court of the chamber judge of the Appellate Division on behalf of the government.
The chamber judge is likely to hear the petition in the afternoon.
According to the HC order, the secretaries to the government will remain after the chiefs of staff of the defence services in the table.
The HC directive came as a part of its verdict in a writ petition filed in 2006 claiming that the cabinet division had framed the existing Warrant of Precedence in 1986 in an arbitrary manner, without evaluating the dignity and status of judicial officials.
The petition was filed on behalf of Bangladesh Judicial Service Association by Md Ataur Rahman, a former secretary general of the association also a district judge of the Tribunal for Prevention of Repression on Women and Children, in Patuakhali.
Source: thedailystar.net
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