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SC upholds GCC Mayor Mannan’s reinstatement

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 14 April 2016

Staff Reporter :The Supreme Court has upheld a High Court order that stayed for six months the government’s order suspending BNP-backed Mayor of Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) MA Mannan.A four-member bench of the Appellate Division of the SC headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha passed the order on Wednesday after appeal hearing of the government against the High Court order. Attorney General Mahbubey Alam represented the state, while Advocate Khandaker Mahbub Hossain stood for MA Mannan. Khandaker Mahbub Hossain said that with the apex court giving ‘no order’ in this regard, the HC’s stay order was upheld.Earlier on April 11, a High Court bench of Justice Quamrul Islam Siddique and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil stayed the government order, and also directed it to explain why the suspension order would not be declared illegal. Six people, including the secretary for local government and rural development ministry and Gazipur Deputy Commissioner, were made respondents to the rule.The HC had passed the order following a writ petition filed by MA Mannan challenging the legality of suspension.On August 19 in 2015, the government suspended the GCC Mayor, as he had been charged with criminal offences. Panel Mayor Asadur Rahman has been serving as an acting mayor since then.MA Mannan, also an adviser to BNP chief Khaleda Zia, faces a total of 23 cases – three of them were chargesheeted. He is now out of jail getting bail in all the cases.