Dhaka, May 27 (UNB) - The High Court on Sunday asked Khawaja Iqbal, the principal of Chancery Academy of English Law in the city’s Dhanmondi area, to pay Tk 1.5 lakh to petitioner Rehana Ali as court cost as she filed a writ petition against him challenging the validity of the institution.
 
Delivering the judgment upon a public interest litigation writ petition, an HC division bench comprising Justice Tariq Ul Hakim and Justice M Faruque also asked the government to prepare rules of procedure within three months in line with the section 39 of the Private University Act 2010 that regulates the institutions run here in the name of foreign universities  in order to effectively execute the existing rules.

According to the HC order, the fate of the Chancery Academy of English Law will be decided following the prepared rules of procedure since the government did not take any effective step to shut down the Chancery although it appeared to be fake.

The writ petitioner, in her plea, alleged that the Chancery Academy of English Law for providing law degree which had been running for a decade under the so-called affiliation of the University of Williamsburg Manchester, UK and the authorities concerned made money concealing the fact that amounts to a fraudulent act.

Advocate Manzill Murshid appeared for PIL petitioner Rehana Ali while Barrister Masud Ahmed Sayeed for Khawaja Iqbal. Deputy attorney general Zinat Huq stood for the government and ZI Khan Panna for the Bangladesh Bar Council and ABM Bayezid for the University Grants Commission (UGC).