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Bangladesh businesses move HC over shutdowns, blockades
Trade lobby FBCCI and three export-focused organisations have moved the High Court over blockades and shutdowns that have left the businesses bleeding for the past one and a half months.
Published : 1 March 2015, 12:07 PM
Updated : 1 March 2015, 08:24 PM
The bench of justices Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Abu Taher Md. Saifur Rahman will hear the plea on Monday.
On Sunday, the court held a hearing on whether public interest petition citing own losses could be filed.
It came up on the court’s Sunday cause list. The FBCCI, BGMEA, BKMEA and BTMEA chiefs are the plaintiffs.
Secretaries to home, law, information, Bangladesh Bank governor, the ruling Awami League, BNP, Jatiya Party, Workers’ Party, among others, have been named defendants.
A BNP-sponsored violent street agitation since Jan 5 has cost Bangladesh over Tk 1.2 trillion in losses, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told Parliament on Feb 25.
During this time, 1,173 vehicles were torched.
Businesses have been urging political parties to shun agitations that hurt the economy.
They even threatened to move the court seeking a ban on programmes like shutdowns and blockades.
But it is unclear what Sunday’s writ petition was about.
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