Correspondent
Dhaka,Mar 1 -The High Court Division of the Supreme Court yesterday declared parliament membership of Awami League MP Nizam Uddin Hazari legal.Justice Md Abu Zafar Siddique of the single bench of High Court handed down the verdict rejecting the writ petition filed, challenging the legality of his parliament membership. Earlier on February 27, the same bench set Thursday for delivering its verdict on completion of the hearing. On January 15, the single High Court bench of Justice Farid Ahmed felt embarrassed to hear the petition and sent it to the then acting Chief Justice Md Abdul Wahhab Miah. Later, the acting Chief Justice assigned Justice Md Abu Zafar Siddique for disposing of the petition. The High Court bench felt embarrassed for eight times to hear the writ petition and gave split orders once after hearing the pleas. On December 6 last year, a High Court bench delivered the dissenting verdicts on the writ petition challenging the legality of Awami Leaque MP Nizam Uddin Hazari’s parliament membership. Senior judge of the bench Justice Md Emdadul Huq declared the election of the Feni-2 constituency MP illegal while junior judge Justice FRM Nazmul Ahsan rejected the petition. In 2014, Shakhawat Hossain Bhuiyan, a Jubo League leader of Feni, filed the writ petition with the High Court attaching a newspaper report of May 10, 2014, stating that Nizam Uddin Hazari was awarded 10 years’ imprisonment in an arms case, but he was freed from prison, two years and 10 months before his jail term was completed.
