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Status-quo on felling Jessore Road trees

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Update: 2018-01-18 02:24:58
Status-quo on felling Jessore Road trees Jessore-Benapole Road (File photo)

DHAKA: The High Court put a status quo on cutting down the century-old trees on Jessore Road for six months.

An HC bench of Justice Jubayer Rahman Chowdhury and Justice Iqbal Kabir passed the order along with issuing rules regarding this Thursday (January 18). 

Advocate Monjil Morshed moved for the writ petitioner, at the courtroom.

Earlier, SC lawyer Ishrat Hassan sent a legal notice on behalf of Sheikh Md Mohibullah, a private university teacher, regarding the government plan to cut down the tress on Jessore-Benapole Road for road expansion.

Secretary to the ministry of Road Transport & Bridges, Director General to Department of Environment, Jessore District Commissioner and Superintendent of Police were made defendants in the notice. 

However, the government decision of cutting down as many as 2,000 trees on the road bearing the memories of Liberation War of 1971 triggered huge outcry over some past days.  

BDST: 1414 HRS, JAN 18, 2018
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