Dhaka, March 2 -- The Appellate Division on Sunday fixed May 8 for hearing on four separate review petitions challenging its 2011 verdict that abolished the non-party caretaker government system.

A three-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Senior Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam fixed the date.

Additional Attorney General Anik R Haque represented the state while Senior lawyer Ruhul Quddus Kajol and Advocate Mohammad Shishir Monir appeared for BNP and Jamaat respectively.

BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, five citizens and Md Mofazzal Hossain, a freedom fighter from Naogaon, lodged the four review petitions with the Appellate Division last year to turn down its 2011 verdict that scrapped the caretaker government system.

In 1996, the caretaker g...