No cattle market in Aftabnagar: HC

The High Court, HC, has stayed for three months the lease notification relating to setting up makeshift cattle market at Aftabnagar in Dhaka on the occasion of upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.

The bench of Justice Kazi Zinat Hoque and Justice Ainun Nahar Siddiqa passed the order on Sunday, May 4, after hearing a writ petition in this regard.

Writ petitioner lawyer Md Yunus Ali Akanda argued for the petition in the hearing.

On April 21, the Dhaka South City Corporation, DSCC, published a lease notification aiming to set up temporary cattle markets at 11 places in the capital ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.

On April 24, Supreme Court lawyer Yunus Ali Aknda sent a legal notice not to set up cattle market at Aftabnagar.

On April 30, he filed writ petition with the High Court as DSCC did not respond to his legal notice.

Earlier on April 28, the High Court also ordered not to install Eid-ul-Azha cattle market at Meradia Haat in the capital.

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