Writ petition filed to ensure court’s safety
Supreme Court lawyer Ishrat Hasan, also wife of a justice, filed the writ petition after an accused in a murder case stabbed to death another accused of the same case during a trial in a Cumilla court on Monday.
A writ petition was filed on Tuesday with the High Court to seek directives to ensure proper security for all courts and judges.
Supreme Court lawyer Ishrat Hasan, also wife of a justice, filed the writ petition after an accused in a murder case stabbed to death another accused of the same case during a trial in a Cumilla court on Monday.
The HC bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahsan and Justice KM Kamrul Kader will hear the petition on July 17.
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The cabinet secretary, the law secretary, the home secretary and other authorities concerned have been made defendants in the petition.
The gruesome incident of Monday that caused a nationwide stir took place when the court of the third Additional District and Sessions Judge was hearing a case filed over a 2013 murder in Manoharganj upazila.
