DHAKA: To the cheers of Amar Desh journalists, the High Court Thursday stayed for three months the government decision canceling the declaration of the Bengali daily.

As the legal bar is lifted, the newspaper is likely to go on print Thursday, its City Editor Syed Abdal Ahmed told banglanews24.com.bd, as his colleagues hugely hailed the High Court ruling that redeemed their professional doom.

The court also issued a rule upon the government to show cause in four weeks as to why the decision of the cancellation should not be declared void.

The rule has been directed towards the Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Information Secretary and Officer-in-Charge of Tejgaon police station.

At the same time, the court stayed the order of canceling the application by Mahmudur Rahman to become publisher of the paper.  

An HC bench, comprising justices Nazmun Ara Sultana and Sheikh Hasan Arif, pronounced at 11am the crucial judgment that came like a godsend to some 700 journalists and employees of the newspaper.

Acting chairman of the Amar Desh Limited company Anwarul Nabi filed a writ petition Tuesday seeking the remedies.

Barrister Abdur Razzak, who appeared on behalf of Nabi, said: “The bar to publishing the paper has now gone with the verdict and it could be published now.”

He added: “The declaration of the paper has been cancelled with an ulterior motive.”

BDST 1300 HRS. June 10, 2010.
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