The High Court today questioned the legality of constructing a kitchen market on a residential area near Baldha Garden in the capital's Wari area.

The court issued a rule upon the authorities concerned to explain in four weeks why construction of the kitchen market should not be declared illegal.

The HC bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo passed the order after hearing a writ petition filed by Supreme Court lawyer Masud Ahmed Sayeed.

The petition was filed challenging the construction of the market following a report published by The Daily Star on August 23, the petitioner's lawyer Muktadir Rahman told The Daily Star.

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The authorities have given lease to some local influential Awami League men to construct the kitchen market in violation of the relevant law.

The residential area should be maintained according to the government's estate manual law. But it was violated following the construction of the structure, the lawyer said.

The report headlined "Road given to AL men" said that Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) leased out a public road near Baldha Garden to Awami League men, who then set up a kitchen market there.

The once widely used road now has 44 shops on it. Some of the shops were rented out and some sold.