Desk Report
Published: 25 Nov 2021, 07:27 pm
High Court || Photo: Collected
The High Court (HC) today scrapped a Jatio
Muktijoddha Council (Jamuka) provision keeping 10 percent quota system for
including real Freedom Fighters (FFs) in the official gazette.
A High Court division bench comprising Justice
KM Kamrul Kader and Justice Muhammad Mahbub Ul Islam passed the order after
holding a hearing on separate writ petitions filed in this regard.
Jamuka on April 18, 2019, issued a circular,
saying for including Freedom Fighters’ in official gazette; authorities cannot
include more than 10 percent of the existing number of gazetted Freedom
Fighters under each upazilla.
"The writ petitioners were included at the
'Ka' list of Freedom Fighters by the upazilla verification committee in 2017.
But because of this 10 percent quota system, many of them were left out of the
gazette, forcing them to challenge the circular with the High Court,"
Advocate Toufik Inam Tipu, who moved the petitions before the court, told
newsmen.
The lawyer said none can regulate the number of
real Freedom Fighters through any act. It is unconstitutional also. The number
of real Freedom Fighters can be more or less than 10 percent of those who have
already been gazetted. You cannot leave any real Freedom Fighter out of gazette
and cannot add a single fake Freedom Fighter in that, he added.