Dhaka, May 4 -- The High Court has stayed a lease notice allowing the setting up of a sacrificial animal market in Aftabnagar in the capital for three months. At the same time, a rule has been issued asking why the Dhaka South City Corporation's notice should not be declared illegal and scrapped.

A bench of Justice Kazi Zinat Hoque and Justice Aynun Nahar Siddiqua passed the order on Sunday after hearing a petition on the matter.

The concerned parties, including the local government secretary and the chief property officer of Dhaka South City Corporation, have been asked to respond to the rule within four weeks.

The Dhaka South City Corporation issued a lease notice on Apr 21 to set up temporary animal markets in 11 places in the capit...