Dhaka, March 3 -- The High Court issued a rule on Monday questioning why the President's power to pardon convicted people without any established policy should not be declared unconstitutional.

The court also sought an explanation as to why a policy regarding the exercise of the President's power to pardon convicts should not be created.

The High Court bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Debashish Roy Chowdhury issued the rule following a preliminary hearing on a public interest petition.

Advocate Ishrat Hasan represented the petitioner, while Deputy Attorney General Mohsin Kabir Roky appeared on behalf of the state.

Earlier, the Judiciary Reform Commission had recommended limiting the President's unilateral power to pardon conv...