March 11, 2003	Tuesday	Muharram 7, 1424

DHAKA, March 10: The high court has ordered a district magistrate to pay Taka 10,000 as compensation from his own resources to a private citizen, for issuing an illegal detention order.

The HC division bench, comprising Justice M A Aziz and Justice Nazrul Islam Chowdhury, delivered the verdict on a writ petition filed by Mominul Haq Mobin, a student, who was arrested on Dec 15 last year.

Later district magistrate Motiar Rahman, in an order, asked police to detain Mobin under the Special Powers Act, 1974, which allows preventive detention on certain grounds. The magistrate issued the order on January 6.