The High Court (HC) will hold today the final hearing on the petition challenging the Election Commission's (EC) re-demarcation of parliamentary constituencies.
The court will also hear the petitions for quashing proceedings against former premier Sheikh Hasina in the Niko and barge-mounted power plant corruption cases.
The HC bench of justices Mir Hasmat Ali and Shamim Hasnain on October 13 fixed today for hearing the writ petition that challenged the legality of the EC's gazette notification finalising fresh demarcation of the constituencies.
EC's counsel Dr Shahdeen Malik yesterday told The Daily Star that it might take two or three days to complete the hearing on the writ petition against the re-demarcation of the constituencies.
The EC on October 14 took back from the HC bench of justices Syed Mahmud Hossain and Quamrul Islam Siddiqui its petition for vacating the court order that stayed the re-demarcation of parliamentary constituencies as the writ petition was pending with an HC bench of justices Mir Hasmat Ali and Shamim Hasnain.
"If more time is required for disposing the writ petition, the commission will move its petition to another High Court bench for vacating the High Court order that stayed the EC's re-demarcation of parliamentary constituencies," he said.
Former BNP state minister Abdul Mannan filed the writ petition on August 6 challenging legality of the EC's gazette notification finalising fresh demarcation of the constituencies.
The next day, the HC bench of justices Khademul Islam Chowdhury and Mashuque Hosain Ahmed stayed operation of the notification for three months, and directed the government and the EC to explain within two weeks why the notification should not be declared unconstitutional and illegal.
Another HC bench of justices Sheikh Rezowan Ali and Md Rais Uddin deferred until today the hearing on the writ petitions filed by Hasina for quashing the proceedings of Niko and barge-mounted power plant corruption cases against her.
The HC on July 7 stayed for two months the proceedings of the cases filed by the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) against Hasina.
The HC also issued separate rulings asking the ACC and the government to explain why the proceedings against Hasina should not be quashed.
Following an application on August 27, the HC extended for three months the stay orders and fixed October 14 for hearing of the rulings.
Sources said counsels for Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid might move petition on his behalf before an HC bench today for his bail in the Barapukuria coalmine corruption case.