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Ban on Ahmadiyya books stayed

Staff Correspondent
The High Court yesterday stayed the government ban on Ahmadiyya publications and proscribed any gazette notification on it until the regular bench of the High Court returns from winter vacation on January 2.
The High Court's (HQ vacation bench of Justice ABM Khairul Haque issued the order respondingto a writ petition by six civil society groups and a member of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Bangladesh (AMJB).
The writ filed on Monday by Dr KamalHossainon behalf ofOdhikar,
Sammilito Samajik Andolon, Ain o Salish Kendra, Karmojibi Nari, Jatiyo Ainjibi Parishad and Nijera Kori and AK Rczaul Karim, an AM J B member, challenged the ban and sought a rule on it The same day the court fixed yesterday for hearing on the matter.
Meanwhile, anti-Ahmadiyya campaigner International Khatme Nabuwat Movement Bangladesh (1KNMB) yesterday announced that they would lay siege to Ahmadiyya Complex on Bakshibazar on December 23 nextyear.
In protest at the HC order,
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IKNMB brought out a procession from Rahim Metal Mosque in Tejgaon after the Asr prayers yesterday. While marching towards Ahmadiyya Mosque in Nakhalpara they chanted slogans demanding government move to declare the sect non-Muslims. Police intercepted the procession at Nabisco Crossing.
The government, on January 8, banned Ahmadiyya publications in the face of agitation by religious bigots spearheaded by some leaders of Islamic Oikya Jote, a constituent of ruling BNP-fed alliance.
The attorney general did not turn up to the court yesterday although Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Helal Uddin Mollah on Monday told the court that Attorney General Hassan ArifF would make submission on the matter.
Dr Kamal Hossain, Dr M Zahir and BarristerTmjib-ul Alam moved • for the petitioners while the DAG for the state.
Meanwhile, the court turned down Advocate ABM Nurul Islam's plea to appoint him amicus curiae (somebody who assists court).
The petitioners asked the court to issue a rule on the home secretary, senior assistant secretary of home ministry, inspector general of police and deputycontrollerofBangladesh Press to reply as to why the ban would not oe declared illegal and staytheoperationofthebanorder.