HC de-lists contempt case against CEC from hearing
Unb, Dhaka
The High Court (HC) yesterday de-listed from hearing a contempt of court case against CEC Justice MA Aziz and three others, including election commissioners Justice Mahfuzur Rahman and SM Zakaria, for noncompliance with the HC edicts for updating the electoral roll.Awami League General Secretary MA Jalil filed the case along with a writ petition challenging the validity of the Election Commission secretariat under the office of the prime minister in January. According to daily cause list, the contempt case coupled with the writ petition came up for fixing the date of hearing in the court's order of the day. When the matter came up before a division bench comprising Justice Nozrul Islam Chowdhury and Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury, Barrister M Amir-Ul Islam, the counsel for Jalil, prayed for de-listing both the cases. The lawyer said he did it at the instruction of his client. He submitted that his client expressed his unwillingness to have the date fixed for hearings in view of the current "political situation". After hearing Amir, the court passed the order of de-listing the cases from hearing.
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