Two separate petitions were filed on Sunday with the Supreme Court, seeking adjournment of Monday's scheduled hearing on the pending petitions filed against the High Court verdict that had declared the fifth amendment to the country's Constitution illegal.
The fifth amendment had legitimised all governments that had been in power following the coup of August 15, 1975 till April 9, 1979 including late president Ziaur Rahman's ascension to the presidency.
With the two new petitions, a total of six petitions against the HC verdict are now pending with the apex court.
Of the petitions, two separate leave-to-appeal petitions had been filed last year with the SC, challenging the HC verdict, and two others were filed on January 5 this year, seeking reinstatement of a stay order on the HC verdict.
BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain and three SC lawyers--Tajul Islam, Kamruzzaman Bhuiyan and Munshi Ahsan Kabir filed all the six petitions.
On January 5 this year, the SC's Appellate Division fixed January 18 for hearing all the petitions, which have been enlisted as item No-6 for hearing on Monday's cause list of the court.
Tajul Islam, one of the petitioners, on Sunday told The Daily Star that they filed the petitions seeking eight weeks' adjournment on the scheduled hearing on the petitions.
Earlier on January 3, the Appellate Division lifted its four-year old stay order on the HC verdict and also allowed withdrawal by the incumbent government and Muktijoddha Kalyan Trust of two leave-to-appeal petitions against the HC verdict.
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