{"id":1253,"date":"2013-05-23T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T07:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartabangla.com\/english\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2013-05-23T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T07:57:07","slug":"appeal-for-bgmea-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/appeal-for-bgmea-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for BGMEA complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/BGMEA-bhaban.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1254\" alt=\"BGMEA bhaban\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/BGMEA-bhaban.png\" width=\"296\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/b><b>BartaBangla Report ::\u00a0<\/b>Ready-made garment owners association, BGMEA, on Thursday filed a petition appealing against the High Court ruling to demolish its office building at Hatirjheel on grounds of being constructed illegally. Lawyer Rafique-ul Haque, representing BGMEA, confirmed to bdnews24.com that the appeal has been filed at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>It now remains to be seen whether the appeal is accepted for hearing by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday was the last date allowed for an appeal against the High Court ruling.<\/p>\n<p>On Apr 3, 2011, bench of Justices AHM Shamsuddin Choudury and Sheikh Mohammad Zakir Hossain ordered demolition of the BGMEA with the full verdict given on Mar 19.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner is given 60 days time for an appeal after receiving certified copy of the order.<\/p>\n<p>The full verdict described the BGMEA building as \u2018cancer\u2019 in the Hatirjheel area. \u201cThis destructive building will not only affect Hatirjheel, but the whole of Dhaka city,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The court also directed to return the money taken from those who had rented space inside the building.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling identified the rent contracts as illegal because BGMEA had no right to construct the building there nor to sell any land of the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the rent holders knew or should have known about it. Therefore they are not to claim interests,\u201d the order said.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict had said that an institution cannot be put \u2018beyond law\u2019 because of its \u2018economic power\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBGMEA, being an important institution, should have been more the respectful towards the law. Instead, they chose to ignore it,\u201dthe order said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BartaBangla Report ::\u00a0Ready-made garment owners association, BGMEA, on Thursday filed a petition appealing against the High Court ruling to demolish its office building at Hatirjheel on grounds of being constructed illegally. Lawyer Rafique-ul Haque, representing BGMEA, confirmed to bdnews24.com that the appeal has been filed at the Supreme Court. It now remains to be seen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}