The High Court summoned LGRD Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed to explain the imports and availability of effective insecticides to kill mosquitoes.
LGRD secretary appeared before the court after being summoned. He failed to place any convincing explanation to the High Court bench of Justice Tariq ul Hakim and Justice Shohrowardi.
The court ordered Ahmed to provide an explanation on behalf of the government by 4pm.
The judges ordered Ahmed to appear in court following a hearing.
The number of dengue cases has been rising in Dhaka since June and it spread to almost all districts by the end of July.
On Jul 25, the High Court made a query on the time needed to import effective insecticides. The state and the city corporations failed to provide specific answers to that.
The court ordered the authority on Tuesday to inform it the expected deadline to bring the effective insecticide killing mosquitoes by Thursday.
Both city corporations and the state were asked to submit a 'legal instrument' to the court on the issue.