A High Court bench yesterday upheld a government decision to dismiss former Brig Gen Abdullahil Aman Azmi, son of former Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Ghulam Azam, from service.
The bench of Justice Jahangir Hossain rejected a writ petition filed by Azmi challenging his dismissal.
Earlier on January 25, Justice Md Miftah Uddin Choudhury, the senior judge of another HC bench, issued a rule upon the government to explain why the dismissal of Azmi should not be declared illegal.
Justice Jahangir Hossain, who sat in that bench as the junior member, disagreed with the rule, said Attorney General Mahbubey Alam.
So, the chief justice on May 22 formed a separate bench of Jahangir Hossain to hear the petition and pass an order on it, he said.
The attorney general, state counsel, and barrister Abdur Razzaq, counsel of Azmi, told The Daily Star that the chief justice will form a third bench for final disposal of the matter.
Abdur Razzaq, however, described the chief justice's move to form single-member benches for hearing and disposing of the writ petition as unprecedented. A bench of at least two members is needed for settling any writ petition.
The defence ministry on June 23, 2009 dismissed Azmi from his service with the consent of the president. Azmi filed the writ petition on November 1, 2009.