PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL)

Mr. Md. Abdur Rashid, General Secretary, Satata Bastahara Bahumukhi Samabaya, Dhaka

1. Secretary, Ministry of Land
2. Secretary, Ministry of Land
3. Secretary, Ministry of Public Works
4. Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs
5. IGP, Dhaka
6. Chairman, National Housing Authority
7. Deputy Commissioner, Dhaka
8. Sub-Divisional Engineer, Mirpur Housing Division – 2
9. Deputy Director, Land and Property Management, National Housing Authority

The petitioner challenged the office Memo No. jagrik/bhusobya/note-file/ 2011/15340 dated 29.12.2011 issued by the Deputy Director Land and Property Management refusing to allot a plot for rehabilitation of the slum dwellers according to the judgment dated 15.11.2007 in Writ Petition No. 5915 of 2005 with a prayer for the enforcement of the said judgment and not to evict the slum dwellers from Gudaraghat basti.

The High Court issued a Rule Nisi calling upon the respondents to show cause as to why the office Memo bearing No jagrik/bhusobya/note-file/2011/15340 dated 29.12.2011 issued by the Deputy Director Land and Property Management refusing to allot the plot for rehabilitation of the slum dwellers according to judgment dated 15.11.2007 in writ petition no. 5915 of 2005 should not be declared illegal and without lawful authority, being contrary to right to life as mandated by Article 32 of the Constitution and why failing to enforce the judgment dated 15.11.2007 should not be declared illegal and without lawful authority.

Mr. Justice Farid Ahmed
Mr. Justice Jafar Ahmed