High Court scraps order suspending Dr Yunus's jail term
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Dr Yunus, 3 other Grameen Telecom officials given six months in jail on Jan 1
The High Court has scrapped a Labour Appellate Tribunal order that suspended the six-month jail term of Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and three other Grameen Telecom officials in a case filed over violation of labour laws.
The High Court bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Kazi Ibadat Hossain passed the order on Monday following the hearing of a petition challenging the Labour Appellate Tribunal order.
On January 1, Dhaka Labour Court-3 sentenced Grameen Telecom Chairman Dr Yunus and three of its senior officials to six months in jail and fined each Tk30,000 in the case filed by the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments on September 9, 2021.
The court also granted Dr Yunus a month's bail on condition of filing an appeal against the verdict of the court.
After the filing of the appeal, the Labour Appellate Tribunal, on January 28, granted bail to Dr Yunus and three others, accepting the appeal for hearing.
On that day, the Labour Appellate Tribunal also suspended the sentence handed down by the labour court.
On February 4, a petition was filed by Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan with the High Court challenging the suspension of Dr Yunus's six-month sentence in the case. The petition also appealed to the court not to allow Dr Yunus to go abroad without its permission.
On February 5, the High Court directed Dr Yunus to inform the Labour Appeal Tribunal if he wanted to go overseas. At the same time, the court stayed the suspension of Dr Yunus's six-month sentence.