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Petition filed seeking time for demolishing BGMEA building

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Published: 13:29, 8 March 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Petition filed seeking time for demolishing BGMEA building

Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) sought three years’ time to demolish its multi-storied building, which has been ordered for demolition.

Barrister Imtiaz Moinul Islam, a lawyer for BGMEA, said a petition in this regard was filed today to the Supreme Court (SC) and might be heard tomorrow.

“A petition has been filed with the SC seeking three years’ time today,” Barrister Imtiaz Moinul Islam said.

Earlier on March 5, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court ordered the BGMEA to file a petition to the SC by March 9 asking about how much time it will take for the demolition of the building.

On the same day, a three-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha dismissed the petition filed by BGMEA seeking review of its judgement that upheld a High Court order for demolishing the BGMEA building illegally built on the capital's Begunbari canal and Hatirjheel lake.

BGMEA, the apex body of the garments manufacturers of the country, filed the review petition on 8 December last year after the Supreme Court, in its full verdict released on November 8, ordered authorities to bring down illegal BGMEA building in Hatirjheel area immediately at its own cost.

While passing the order, a four-member bench of the Appellate Division asked the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) to knock down the illegal building in 90 days if BGMEA does not take any step to demolish it.

Earlier in April 2011, the High Court ordered the authorities to demolish the building in the Begunbari-Hatirjheel canal within three months, saying it was built on a land acquired through forgery and earth-filled the water body illegally. Later, the SC stayed the HC order following a petition filed by the BGMEA.

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