The High Court will deliver the verdict any day challenging the validity of granting the registration of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami as a political party by the Election Commission (EC).After the rule hearing on a writ petition, a three-member larger bench of the High Court comprising Justice M Moazzam Hossain, Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Quazi Reza-ul Hoque on Wednesday passed the order keeping the judgment pending for pronouncement any day.
On November 4, 2008, the EC granted registration to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BJI) as a political party under the Representation of People Order 1972.
On January 27, 2009, following a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) writ petition seeking proscription of the Islamic party, the High Court issued rule upon the EC to explain why the registration of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami as a political party should not be declared to have been done unlawfully and ultra vires to the Constitution.
Maulana Syed Rezaul Haque Chandpuri, secretary general of Bangladesh Tariqat Federation, and 24 others, including Islamic scholars, children of freedom fighters, Tariquat Federation, Zaker Party and Sammilita Islamic Jote filed the (PIL) petition.
The PIL writ petitioners sought enforcement of section 90C of the Representation of People Order along with certain articles of Bangladesh Constitution, including the Proclamation of Independence and Preamble. (Source: UNB)
