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SC stays tannery owners fine till July 17

The Supreme Court stayed a High Court order till July 17 that had ordered 154 tanners of Dhaka’s Hazaribagh area to pay Tk 50,000 each per day in compensation for damaging the environment.Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order on Tuesday.The chamber Judge also sent the stay petition to the full bench of the Appellate Division for its hearing on July 17.  The HC in its June 16 order asked the owners to deposit the money with the state exchequer from the date of receiving copies of the HC order until relocation of their factories to Savar Tannery Industrial Estate.The High Court order came following a petition by Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh.