PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL)

On 27 September 2025, after a preliminary hearing of the Public Interest Litigation (Writ Petition No.11733 of 2025) a bench of the High Court Division comprising Justice Kazi Zinat Hoque and Justice Aynun Nahar Siddiqua issued a Rule Nisi calling upon the respondents to show cause as to why the impugned inaction of the respondents in failing to consider the provisions of the Children Act, 2013 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by the General Assembly Resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989, and entered into force on 2 September 1990, in accordance with Article 49), in respect of the child rights concerns reported in the Daily Samakal on 20.07.2025 under the headline “গোপালগঞ্জে গ্রেপ্তার ২৭৭ জন কারাগারে, রয়েছে ৯ শিশু ও, should not be declared to have been made without lawful authority and to be of no legal effect; and further, as to why a direction should not be issued upon respondent No. 1 to constitute an inquiry committee to investigate the matter concerning the arrested children and to submit a report before the Hon’ble High Court.