In response to a writ petition, the court also issued a rule upon the government to explain in four weeks why it should not be directed to punish those who are responsible for publishing such contents on the website.
Secretaries to the ministries of home affairs and information, inspector general of police, director general of Rapid Action Battalion
, and chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission have been made respondents to the rule.The HC bench of Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar came up with the rule following the petition jointly filed by Batool Sarwar, a teacher of Dhaka University, and M Nurul Islam, principal of Dhaka Centre for Law and Economics.
According to the petition, some pages, links and uniform resource locators of Facebook are showing cartoons and pictures hurting the religious sentiment of Mohammedans which is against the constitution of the republic.