Apex court stays HC order that barred arrests without specific cases
High Court had ordered that authorities should not show individuals arrested, arrest them or otherwise harass them if no case had been filed against them, following petitions by several individuals.
The Appellate Division has stayed a High Court order that barred authorities from showing individuals arrested, arresting them or otherwise harassing them if no specific case had been filed against them.
A five-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by the Chief Justice, passed the order today (29 July) after the state filed separate applications challenging several High Court orders.
At the same time, the court directed the High Court to dispose of the related rule within four weeks. Attorney General Barrister Md Ruhul Quddus Kazal appeared for the state during the hearing.
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Speaking to reporters, Kazal said the stay means that if an individual is connected to a criminal offence, the investigating officer may apply to have that person shown arrested during the investigation, even if their name does not appear in the first information report.
Earlier, the High Court had ordered that authorities should not show individuals arrested, arrest them or otherwise harass them if no case had been filed against them, following petitions by several individuals.
The High Court had also issued a rule asking why repeatedly showing the petitioners arrested and implicating them in serious false cases to harass, humiliate and persecute them should not be declared illegal, without lawful authority and of no legal effect.
The state later moved the Appellate Division challenging several such orders issued by the High Court.
