Staff Reporter :
The High Court (HC) on Sunday dismissed a writ petition, filed by a Supreme Court lawyer seeking a stay on the Dhaka city corporation elections.
The HC bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman rejected the writ, filed by Advocate Eunus Ali Akond on April 1.
The elections of the two city corporations of Dhaka (north and south) are slated for April 28.
Akond filed the writ petition, challenging the
legality of the rules of Local Government (City Corporations) Amendment Act-2011 under which the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) was split into two city corporations.
DCC is a unitary city corporation as per Local Government (City Corporation) Act-2009, but the government violated the law to split it into two separate city corporations, Akond said in the petition.
He also questioned the high deposit money for the election candidates, saying that every citizen of the country cannot afford to deposit Tk 50 thousand to Tk 1 lakh to contest as a Mayor in the city corporation polls. It is illegal and a violation of law, he said.
The petitioner has also challenged the provisions of security money and purchasing voter lists by the candidates.
The petitioner prayed to the court to issue a rule upon the government and the election commission to explain why the relevant rules and the amended act for holding the elections to the two city corporations should not be declared illegal.
Secretaries of the law ministry and parliament, Chief Election Commissioner and Returning Officers of DCC (north and south) were made respondents in the petition.
The High Court (HC) on Sunday dismissed a writ petition, filed by a Supreme Court lawyer seeking a stay on the Dhaka city corporation elections.
The HC bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman rejected the writ, filed by Advocate Eunus Ali Akond on April 1.
The elections of the two city corporations of Dhaka (north and south) are slated for April 28.
Akond filed the writ petition, challenging the
legality of the rules of Local Government (City Corporations) Amendment Act-2011 under which the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) was split into two city corporations.
DCC is a unitary city corporation as per Local Government (City Corporation) Act-2009, but the government violated the law to split it into two separate city corporations, Akond said in the petition.
He also questioned the high deposit money for the election candidates, saying that every citizen of the country cannot afford to deposit Tk 50 thousand to Tk 1 lakh to contest as a Mayor in the city corporation polls. It is illegal and a violation of law, he said.
The petitioner has also challenged the provisions of security money and purchasing voter lists by the candidates.
The petitioner prayed to the court to issue a rule upon the government and the election commission to explain why the relevant rules and the amended act for holding the elections to the two city corporations should not be declared illegal.
Secretaries of the law ministry and parliament, Chief Election Commissioner and Returning Officers of DCC (north and south) were made respondents in the petition.
