The High Court (HC) on Monday upheld the quota system in the civil service, rejecting a writ petition filed seeking for reformation of the system.
The HC bench of Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and Justice Md Ataur Rahman Khan passed the rejection order after hearing the petition.
Advocate Eklas Uddin Bhuiyan moved for the petition while Deputy Attorney General Amit Talukder represented the government, reports UNB.
Earlier, Advocate Eklas Uddin Bhuiyan, on behalf of a student of Dhaka University and two journalists, filed the writ petition on January 31.
Cabinet secretary, secretary to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Secretary of Parliament Secretariat, Public Administration Secretary and PSC Chairman were made defendants in the petition.
The petitioner said the then government in 1972 had introduced 30 per cent quota for the freedom fighters and 10 per cent quota for the women who were affected during the Liberation War.
Later, the quota system was reformed. As per the reformation, five per cent quota have been included for Indigenous people while 10 per cent as district quota, and one per cent for people with disabilities.
Now a total of 56 per cent quota existed in the government jobs.
The quota system is contradictory with the Articles 19, 28 and 29 of the Constitution of the People's Republic Of Bangladesh, the petitioner added.