Two students from Dhaka University (DU) filed a petition with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court challenging the High Court`s decision to reinstate a 30 percent quota for children of freedom fighters in government jobs from grades nine to thirteen.
According to Shah Monjurul Hoque, the lawyer representing the petitioners, the chamber judge of the Appellate Division may hear the petition later today.
Earlier in the day, Al Saadi Bhuiyan, a student in the anthropology department of Dhaka University and president of the Dhaka University Journalists` Association, along with Ahnaf Sayeed Khan, a student in the Urdu department, submitted the petition through a senior lawyer.
On Thursday, a full bench of the Appellate Division is scheduled to hear the government`s petition challenging the High Court verdict.
In response to a writ petition, the High Court declared on June 5 that the government`s decision in 2018 to abolish the 30 percent quota system for descendants of freedom fighters in civil service jobs from grades nine to thirteen was illegal.
Deputy Attorney General Sk Shaifuzzaman informed on that day that the 30 percent quota for children of freedom fighters has been reinstated following the High Court`s verdict.
