A rights organisation has filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directives on the government to stop increase of price of essential commodities during upcoming Ramadan.
Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB) filed the petition as public interest litigation on Sunday also seeking HC directives on the authorities to set up mobile courts in Dhaka and Chittagong to control the price of essentials and punish the dishonest businessmen.
Petitioner's counsel Manzill Murshid told The Daily Star that petition was filed following the reports recently published on different newspapers stating that some corrupt and dishonest businessmen have already fixed the high prices of essential commodities ahead of Ramadan.
He said some of those businessmen also created crisis of foods and other commodities through syndicate and earn much money by increasing price without following any legal procedure.
Manzill also said the HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore will hear the petition today.
Secretaries to the ministries of commerce and food and deputy commissioners of Dhaka and Chittagong have been made respondents in the petition.
Source : The Daily Star
