The High Court yesterday stayed the trial proceedings of a sedition case against BNP chairperson's adviser Fazlur Rahman fora month.

The court also issued a rule upon the government to explain in four weeks as to why the case proceedings against Fazlur should not be scrapped.

The order and rule came following a petition filed by the accused BNP leader praying for quashing the proceedings of the.

The sedition case against Fazlur cannot run, as it was filed by one Ali Hasan not by the government, M Masud Rana, a lawyer for Fazlur, told The Daily Star.

The sedition case was filed against Fazlur, a former Awami League lawmaker, over making derogatory statements about President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the ruling AL on March 19, 2014 while addressing an election rally in Itna, Kishoreganj.