The High Court, in a full text of order, has issued five directives in order to ensure the identities of informants and complainants in criminal cases.

The informants and complainants must submit photocopies of their national identity cards, or passports and their phone numbers to the police stations or courts concerned when they file cases so that police can find them during investigation.

If any informant or complaint do not have national identity cards, the photocopy of the identify card of a person, who identifies the informant or complaint, must be submitted to the police station or court concerned during filing the case, the HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman said in the full text of order.

The bench released the two-page order yesterday.

On June 14, the HC bench delivered a short order following a writ petition filed by a businessman, Ekramul Ahsan Kanchan, who has been implicated in 49 criminal cases, seeking necessary directives to identify the informants and complainants.

On that day, the HC bench has ruled that the informants and complainants must submit the photocopies of their national identity cards and numbers to the police stations or courts when they file cases.