The High Court on Monday asked the government to ensure security of all the sculptures, murals and monuments of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding president of Bangladesh.
The court also directed the government to submit a progress report on implementation of its previous directive of building murals of Sheikh Mujib at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka, and on the premises of all the districts and upazila headquarters,
The court asked the cabinet secretary to submit compliance report to the court within a month.
The bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice Shahed Nuruddin issued the directives during hearing of a writ petition filed by Supreme Court lawyer Bashir Ahmed in November, 2017.
The court on February 25, 2020, directed the government to declare March 7 as a historic national day and publish a gazette notification to this effect within a month.
The court in the ruling also asked the government to explain why it would not be directed to build a podium and sculpture of Sheikh Mujib at Suhrawardy Udyan where he delivered the historic speech on March 7 in 1971.
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