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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