Pregnant, married students barred from halls: Legal notice served on Dhaka University

A Supreme Court lawyer today served a legal notice on the Dhaka University authorities, asking them to cancel -- in three working days -- the existing restriction on pregnant and married female students over staying at residential halls.

Lawyer Mohammad Shishir Manir, also a former student of law faculty of Dhaka University, sent the legal notice to the vice chancellor, registrar and proctor of Dhaka University and the provosts of Shamsunnahar Hall, Kuwait-Maitree Hall and Sufia Kamal Hall -- saying that appropriate legal action will be taken against them if they do not cancel the decision.

In the notice, the lawyer said married and pregnant students will be deprived of obtaining higher education -- enjoying the hall facilities -- if the restriction remains in force.

This is a discriminatory provision, Shishir Manir said in the legal notice.