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HC rejects Latifs plea against EC decision

Staff Correspondent
The High Court yesterday rejected a writ petition by sacked posts and telecommunications minister Abdul Latif Siddique challenging an Election Commission decision to hear on the legitimacy of his parliament
membership.
The bench of Justice Md Emdadul Huq and Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar passed the order.
Additional Attorney General Murad Reza told reporters that the court rejected the petition on the ground that the EC was the proper authority to resolve the issue related to the cancellation of Latifs parliamentary membership.
Meanwhile, the former minister yesterday filed another petition with the Supreme Court, seeking a stay on the EC decision to hear the matter.
Following a brief hearing, Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Justice
Hasan Foez Siddique sent the stay petition to its full bench and fixed Sunday for a hearing.
Latifs lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua told The Daily Star that the apex court would pass an order on the plea on Sunday, and after that it would be understood whether his client would have to appear before the commission for the hearing the same day.
On July 13, Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury sent a letter to the EC, asking it to decide on the parliamentary membership of Latif, he said.
She had received a letter from the ruling Awami League where she was informed about Latifs termination from the party.
On August 9, the EC fixed August 23
for hearing the dispute over the cancellation of Latifs parliamentary membership.
The commission in a notice that day requested Latif and AL General Secretary Syed Ashraftil Islam to be present at the hearing at its Agargaon office, added Barua.
Latif lodged the petition, challenging the legality of the EC notice, with the HC on August 16.
Latif was sacked from the cabinet on October 12 last year for his "derogatory" comments on Hajj, Tablighi Jamaat, and prime minister's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy at a New York programme on September 28. On October 24, the AL also cancelled his party membership.