The High Court has directed the authorities concerned to take necessary steps for stopping DJ parties, nude dances, bullying and obscenity in the name of rag day at all educational institutions, including universities, in the country in 30 days.
The HC bench of Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah and Justice Khizir Hayat issued the order on Sunday (April 17) following a writ petition.
Supreme Court lawyer Advocate Mohammad Kamrul Hasan filed the writ petition on April 7, seeking necessary directives on the issue.
Deputy Attorney General Bepul Bagmar represented the state during the hearing of the petition.
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The HC also issued a rule asking the government authorities concerned to explain why their inaction in stopping DJ parties, nude dances, bullying and obscenity at the educational institutions in the name of rag day should not be declared illegal.
The HC bench asked them to explain in four weeks. Secretaries to the Education Ministry, Information Ministry and Broadcasting Ministry, and Cultural Affairs Ministry; chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC), vice-chancellors of Dhaka University, Rajshahi University, Jahangirnagar University, Khulna University and Barishal University; inspector general of police (IGP), and director-general of the Department of Secondary and High Secondary Education have been made respondents to the rule.
According to the writ petition, it has been noticed recently that some educational institutions organized DJ parties in the name of ‘rag day’ and the images and video footage of those parties go viral on social networking sites.
The teachers were supposed to guide students to build their lives with moral values but under the patronage of the educational institutions such immoral activities are going on. So, it is needed to stop these activities to save the next generation from this bad culture, it said.
The petitioner had urged the higher court to issue directions to ban the vulgarity, unwanted, discourteous and disobedient behaviour in the name of rag day.
The lawyer also mentioned in the petition that he had filed the petition after failing to get any response to a series of legal notices which were sent to the authorities concerned.
