PDB chairman, 7 high officials asked to appear before HC
Court Correspondent
A High Court (HC) division bench yesterday asked the Power Development Board (PDB) Chairman ANM Rezwan and its seven high officials to appear in person before it on December 4 and explain why a contempt charge would not be brought against them.The bench comprising Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Kamrul Islam Siddiqui passed the order following a writ petition filed by its Additional Director Mohammad Nasir Uddin. The writ petition came challenging the legality of promotion of another Additional Director Mosharraf Hossain to the post of director, even though he (Mosharraf) was promoted to the post of additional director after six months of Nasir's promotion. In his petition, Nasir mentioned that he was promoted as additional director on March 25, 1999 while Mosharraf on August 2 the same year. But the PDB gave seniority to Mosharraf on September 3, 2001. On July 7, 2004, the HC declared seniority of Moshaaraf illegal following a writ filed by Nasir challenging the legality of superseding the seniority. The Supreme Court (SC) upheld the HC verdict and rejected the leave to appeal petition of the PDB on January 29 this year. But the PDB did not pay heed to the HC and the SC orders and gave Mosharraf to the post of director superseding the seniority. Advocates Subrata Chowdhury, Promila Biswas and BA Rashid moved the petition on behalf of the petitioner.
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