Dhaka, July 20 -- The High Court on Sunday set aside the contempt of court petition against National Citizen Party (NCP) chief organiser (north) Sarjis Alam over facebook post centering a court order.

The HC bench of Justice Fahmida Quader and Justice Sayed Jahed Mansur passed the order after hearing the petition.

On May 24, Md Jashim Uddin, a Supreme Court lawyer sent a legal notice to Sarjis as he uploaded a post on his social networking site Facebook about a Supreme Court order which is stated as 'disrespectful' and 'demeaning'.

It also asked Sarjis to seek apology to the justice in written statement and submit it to the registrar general of the Supreme Court.

Getting no response from the notice, Advocate Jashim filed a contempt of...