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people’s constitutional right to their properties, the apex court said yesterday.

Following a government’s prayer, the SC fixed next Sunday for further hearing of the leave to appeal petition.

Acting on the instruction of the Dhaka district administration, the police in 2010 beat Maleka, her sons and daughter and evicted them from the land illegally, Awsafur Rahman, the writ petitioner’s lawyer, told The Daily Star.

Haq’s wife and children later came to know that the land was acquired in favour of the BCS Administration Multiple Welfare Cooperative Society as vested property.

In 2012, the state filed a petition with the Appellate Division challenging the HC verdict. The apex court then issued a status quo order on the land’s possession.

It is now under the possession of the BCS scoiety near Ad-Deen Hospital at Moghbazar and Maleka, her sons and daughter are living nearby.

The other members of the SC bench are: Justice Obaidul Hassan and Justice M Enayetur Rahim.

Attorney General AM Amin Uddin and Additional Attorney General Mohammad Mehedi Hassan Chowdhury appeared for the government.