Two Supreme Court lawyers filed a contempt of court petition with the High Court against the government today on charge of cutting down trees to implement a mega project at the site, ignoring the court's 2009 verdict.

Lawyers Mahbubul Islam and Ripan Barai submitted the petition to the officials concerned of the HC, seeking its directive on three government officials -- to stop felling trees at Suhrawardy Udyan.

The three officials are Liberation War Affairs Ministry Secretary Tapan Kanti Ghosh, Public Works Department's Chief Engineer Md Shamim Akhter, and Bangladesh's Chief of Architect Mir Manzur Rahman, petitioners' lawyer Manzill Murshid told The Daily Star.

It has been prayed in the petition to the HC to issue a contempt of court rule against the three government officials for cutting trees in Suhrawardy Udyan, in violation of the 2009 HC directives, he said.

Manzill Murshid said the HC may hear the petition any day.

Earlier on Thursday, the SC lawyer sent a legal notice to the government officials asking them to stop the activities at the historic site in 48 hours.

Following a writ petition, the HC on July 7, 2009, directed the government to identify and preserve all the important historic places related to the Liberation War and set up memorial monuments at the historic places at Suhrawardy Udyan. The memorial monuments were to maintain international standards so people from home and abroad can pay homage to the martyred freedom fighters.

The HC had ordered the government to take steps to protect and maintain the historic places at Suhrawardy Udyan where Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivered his historic March 7 speech in 1971, and where the Pakistani army surrendered on December 16, 1971.

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