Advocate Habibul Islam Bhuiyan and barrister Abdur Razzaq, two senior lawyers of the Supreme Court, in a statement yesterday said the High Court (HC) bench comprising Justice Md Muzammel Hossain and Justice Afzal Hossain Ahmed had not refused to hear the petitions filed by five former ministers and one state minister for quashing the proceedings of Barapukuria coalmine case filed against them.
They said a section of the press on October 28 had reported that the HC bench had refused to hear the petitions filed by former ministers M Saifur Rahman, Motiur Rahman Nizami, Khondoker Mosharraf Hossain, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid, Altaf Hossain Choudhury and former state minister AKM Mosharraf Hossain for quashing the proceedings of the case.
They said at no point in time the HC bench had refused to hear the petitions for quashing the proceedings of the case. In fact, the court merely said that it would look into the matter and pass necessary orders in due course, the statement said.
“We would further like to make it clear that at no stage did we tell the press–both electronic and print– that the Hon’ble court has refused to hear the matter,” the statement said.
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