The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

The Supreme Court Tuesday stayed Thursday's High Court order of status quo and thereby cleared all the way for government to send the rest dispatch of Bangladeshi artifacts to Paris exhibition.

Vacation-chamber Judge M Joynul Abedin, following an application moved by the government, passed the order lifting the legal roadblocks to display of the Bangladeshi archeological masterpieces at the first major international exhibition at Guimet Museum in the French capital.

The artifacts from five Bangladesh museums were scheduled to be on display at the exhibition under an agreement signed between the French Ambassador in Bangladesh and the Secretary of cultural affairs ministry.

Some 188 items were selected from Dhaka National Museum, museums of Paharpur, Mahasthan Garh, Mainamati and Varendra for the show, which had hit snags amid an outcry from a section of protestors.

The matter eventually had landed in law-court, and the legal hassles were all over with the SC edicts.