DHAKA: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court cleared the way to continue academic activities of 57 students who got admitted in Uttara Adhunik Medical College on ‘first-come first-served basis’. 

Besides, the SC directed the college authority to admit within seven days the other lone student who was earlier deprived of admission based on merit-list.

On Wednesday (January 17), the apex court dismissed the HC order after a hearing upon a writ petition regarding this.   

A five-member appellate bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Wahhab Miah passed the order.

Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh moved for Uttara Adhunik Medical College while AM Nizam Uddin moved for the writ petitioner, at the courtroom.

Earlier, on January 9, the HC directed the college authority to restrain academic activities of the 57 students upon hearing a writ petition filed by the guardian of the deprived admission seeker challenging the legality of the admission of 57 students.

The HC also then issued a rule asking the respondents to explain in 10 days why the admission of 57 students should not be declared as a violation to the government notice, which instructed the medical colleges to admit students on merit-list basis.  

BDST: 1135 HRS, JAN 17, 2018
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