Bangladesh High Court declares 1975 military takeover illegal

Bangladesh high court on Monday declared as "illegal" and "void," the 1975 military takeover that killed the country's independence architect and first President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Judges A B M Khairul Huq and A T M Fazle Kabir made the observations in a dispute over an abandoned property in a writ challenging the validity of a martial regulation, incorporated in the country's fifth Constitutional amendment ratifying all martial law actions taken between August 15, 1975 and 1979.