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DHAKA, Feb 11, 2025 (BSS) - The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) today adjourned for two weeks the hearing on review petitions pleading for restoration of the 13th amendment to the constitution and reinstatement of the poll-time non-party caretaker government (CG) system.
 
A three-member apex court bench headed by Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam passed the order, as the matter came on the cause list for the hearing today.
 
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Miah Golam Parwar and Secretary of rights organization Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik, Badiul Alam Majumdar filed the three review petitions in this regard. Three pleas will be heard concurrently.
 
The High Court on December 17, 2024, declared scrapping of the caretaker government system in the constitution as illegal.
 
A High Court bench comprising Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Debashish Ray Chowdhury pronounced the judgment also restoring the provision of referendum in the constitution.
 
Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman, after pronouncement of the judgment, told the journalists that the High Court has declared the scraping of caretaker government provision in the constitution as illegal and from now on the caretaker system is part of the constitution.