High Court (HC) yesterday directed the government not to allow any further commercial operation and institution within the city’s Dhanmondi residential area for the next six months.
In response to a writ petition, the court also directed the government to submit a report within four weeks on what steps they took to remove illegal commercial institutions from the area since 1999.
The HC bench of Justice Mohammad Momtazuddin Ahmed and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore also issued a rule upon the government to explain within four weeks why it should not be directed to evict the institutions.
Dhanmondi Residential Welfare Association President MA Masud and General Secretary MA Matin Chowdhury jointly filed the writ petition on Tuesday as public interest litigation.
Petitioner’s counsel Advocate Manzill Murshid told the court that hundreds of illegal commercial institutions are operational there, damaging residential character and environment.
He said no step has yet been taken to remove those and authorities concerned failed in their duty to protect the residential area.
