SC clears way to shut down 24 illegal brick kilns in Ctg
Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
The Supreme Court yesterday stayed the High Court orders that prohibited the authorities concerned from evicting 24 illegal brick kilns having no valid licence in Chattogram, clearing the way for shutting them down.
Chamber judge of the Appellate Division of the SC Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the stay orders following eight leave to appeal petitions filed by Department of Environment (DoE) challenging the HC orders.
The apex court chamber judge also sent the petitions to its full bench for their detailed hearing on June 21, DoE lawyer Manzill Murshid told The Daily Star.
HC issues injunction restraining 4 poultry farms from operating in Habiganj
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Star Digital Report
Star Digital Report
The High Court today issued an injunction restraining the authorities concerned from operating four commercial poultry farms for allegedly not having environmental clearance certificates and damaging the environment at Madhabpur upazila in Habiganj for next three months.
The poultry farms are Quality Feeds Limited, H&H Agro Limited, Quality Integrated Factory and Fariya Mega Layer Farm, according to a writ petition following which the HC issued the order of injunction.
At the same time, the court issued a rule asking the authorities concerned of the government to explain why their inaction to remove the poultry farms from the residential area should not be declared illegal.
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Nawroz also sought two months time for submitting the complete report on this issue.
The bench of Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah and Justice Md Kamrul Hossain Mollah fixed May 23 for further hearing on the issue.
Also yesterday, Md Ali Akbar, supreme court registrar general, placed another report to the HC bench through Nawroz saying that a three-member monitoring cell, headed by Ali, has been formed to monitor whether the trials of the cases filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000, are completed in 180 days.
The monitoring cell has been constituted in line with a verdict delivered by the HC on December 5, 2016. The HC directive came in the full text of the verdict, delivered by the HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice JBM Hassan released on May 12, 2017.
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