Bangladesh Supreme Court trashes quota ruling after violence
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Bangladesh Supreme Court overrules High Court’s quota order after days of violence
By Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi, July 21: The Supreme Court of Bangladesh has quashed the High Court order to restore 30 per cent reservation in the government jobs for the descendants of the 1971 freedom fighters. The apex court ruling has come after days of violence that left about 116 people dead in Bangladesh.
The AFP in a newsbreak reported that the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on Sunday “scaled back the quota system”. The news agency quoted the attorney general of Bangladesh, saying that the Supreme Court has put in abeyance the High Court ruling that had ordered 30 per cent reservation in government jobs.
The reports from Dhaka said that the Bangladesh Supreme Court has restored the 10 per cent reservation for the descendants of the 1971 War. Bangladesh had plunged into days of arsons and violence after the High Court order on 30 per cent reservation.
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The police firing on the protesting students had taken tolls of several dozens of the youth in Bangladesh. The protesting students had also stormed a prison in Dhaka to free the inmates.
The violence and arson spread all across Bangladesh after the scheme of reservation was put in place last month precipitated. The AFP quoted attorney-general A.M. Amin Uddin, saying that the “Supreme Court has said the High Court verdict was illegal”.
The High Court had ruled reintroduction of the quotas in the government jobs. The news agency also stated that the “five per cent of civil service jobs would remain reserved for children of independence war veterans and two percent for other categories”.
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The Bangladesh government had issued shoot at sight order to quell the raging protests. Despite the internet shutdown, there was no respite from violence.
The protesting students are demanding resignation of the incumbent Bangladesh prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. The prime minister was also criticized for describing the protestors as ‘razakars’.
The ‘razakars’ had collaborated with the Pakistani army in mass murder of the people of Bangladesh, as well as gangrapes of women, as part of the crackdown against the freedom movement in the Bengali-speaking Islamic nation.
Hundreds of Indian students studying in Bangladesh fled through the Meghalaya border to escape the fury of violence. The American leaders also came down heavily against Hasina for the violent crackdown of the protests.
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