The High Court has put a six-month embargo on a government order that threw out Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury of his office after he was accused in former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria murder case. “He can now resume office since there are no more legal bars,” Ariful’s lawyer Abdul Hakim Kafi told the Dhaka Tribune on Monday. Ariful, also a BNP leader, was suspended on January 7, 2015 by the Local Government Ministry after he was arrested and sent to jail on December 30 the year before in Kibria murder case. He moved the High Court on Sunday. The home secretary, the LGRD secretary, the Sylhet metropolitan police commissioner, and the Sylhet divisional commissioner, among others, have been asked to respond within four weeks.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 13, 2017 09:50 UTC