The High Court yesterday stayed for three months the government's suspension of pro-BNP Sylhet Mayor Ariful Huq Chowdhury.

Abdul Baten is more fortunate than many other people's representatives. The mayor of Pabna's Bera municipality, Baten was charge-sheeted in a corruption case, and the district court sent him to jail in May last year. He was then suspended by the LGRD ministry.