Metropolis Report-
The Supreme Court’s Appellate Division today granted Jamaat-e-Isami two months to draft a succinct summary of the party’s appeal against a High Court decision that invalidated its registration with the Election Commission.
The arguments the appellant’s attorneys will make before the court are summarized in a succinct statement.
Jamaat-e-Islami must produce the succinct statement within two months, the top court declared today, or its appeal would be dismissed.
Following a petition submitted by the writ petitioner for the appeal to be heard, a three-member bench of the Appellate Division chaired by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique issued the ruling.
Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim and Justice M. Enayetur Rahim are the other two members of the bench.
During today’s sessions, senior attorney Tanya Amir represented the writ petitioner, and attorney Joynal Abedin Tuhin represented Jamaat-e-Islami.
The Jamaat’s registration with the EC was found invalid by the HC in a landmark decision on August 1, 2013, in response to a writ case. The registration was suspended by the commission that same year.
On January 25, 2009, Rezaul Haque Chandpuri, who was the Bangladesh Tariqat Federation’s secretary general at the time, and 24 other individuals submitted a writ case to the HC asking for a judgment stating that Jamaat’s registration was invalid.
The petitioners said Jamaat was a religiously motivated political party that did not support Bangladesh’s independence and sovereignty.
In October 2018, the EC revoked Jamaat’s registration, making it obvious that the party will not be permitted to run in the forthcoming presidential election.
Two of the three judges on the three-judge HC bench ruled that the registration was unlawful. The other judge, however, did not agree with his two colleagues’ choice.
Jamaat then appealed the High Court’s decision to the Supreme Court.
