Bangladesh court scraps most job quotas that caused deadly unrest: Reports

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The top court scales back – but did not abolish – a contentious quota system that sparked deadly protests.

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has scrapped most of the quotas on government jobs that sparked student-led protests in which more than 100 people have been killed, according to local media.

The court’s Appellate Division dismissed a lower court order that had reinstated the quotas last month.

Attorney-General AM Amin Uddin told AFPL: “The Supreme Court has said the High Court verdict was illegal”.

He added that five percent of civil service jobs would remain reserved for children of independence war veterans and two percent for other categories.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government had scrapped the quota system in 2018, but the lower court reinstated it last month, sparking the deadly protests and an ensuring government crackdown.

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