The High Court has ordered the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology to immediately start procedures for admissions into the 2012-13 academic session.
Published : 14 Aug 2012, 08:24 AM
The High Court has ordered the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology to immediately start procedures for admissions into the 2012-13 academic session.
The bench of justices Naima Haider and Muhammad Khurshid Alam gave the order based on a supplementary petition on Tuesday.
On July 31, the same bench had slapped an interim embargo on the ongoing agitation at BUET for removal of the Vice Chancellor and
Pro-Vice Chancellor, in response to a petition filed by Advocate Younus Ali Akondo, father of an admission seeker.
Akondo had also urged the court in the plea to issue a directive on the university's authorities to publish notice for the first-year admission test.
In reply, the court had said the order on the admission test would be given later since the present situation at BUET was not congenial.
Last week, Akondo filed a supplementary petition urging for a directive to start admission procedures.
Akondo himself argued the case at Tuesday's hearing while senior lawyer M K Rahman, the Additional Attorney General, represented BUET.
After the order, Rahman told bdnews24.com that the university's Dean, Academic Council Members and related officials were given the order.
"However, no schedule was given, which means that the admission procedure shall be carried out normally. It can be started after the BUET reopens."
On July 13, the university was declared shut from Aug 11 to Aug 24 after advancing the Eid vacation in the face of a teacher movement. Teachers and students agitated against the closure and declared to resign en masse to press for the ousters of the VC and his deputy.
However, they decided to shelve the move on an appeal by the Education Minister. They also stalled their movement following the previous High Court order.
On July 31, the court issued a ruling asking authorities to explain why the continuous movements, jointly by the President and the General Secretary of the university's teachers' association, other teachers, students and employees should not be declared illegal.
The Education Secretary, IGP, DMP Commissioner, Vice Chancellor and Pro-Vice Chancellor of BUET, President and General Secretary of the teachers' association and BUET authorities were given four weeks to file their reply.