Court Correspondent :
Two Dhaka University students filed a petition on Tuesday with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, challenging the High Court’s verdict that reinstated the 30 percent quota for freedom fighters’ children in government jobs from the ninth to 13th grades.
The Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division is expected to hear the petition soon, according to the petitioners’ lawyer, Shah Monjurul Hoque.
Al Saadi Bhuiyan, a student from Dhaka University’s Anthropology Department and President of the Dhaka University Journalist Association, and Ahnaf Sayeed Khan, a student from the Urdu Department, submitted the petition through a senior lawyer earlier on Tuesday.
A full bench of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the government petition challenging the High Court’s verdict on Thursday.
On June 5, the High Court declared illegal the government’s 2018 decision to cancel the 30 percent quota for freedom fighters’ children in the civil service for grades nine to thirteen. Deputy Attorney General SK Shaifuzzaman announced that the quota was restored following the High Court’s decision.