EC registration: SC to resume hearing on Jamaat’s appeal May 13

The Supreme Court yesterday fixed May 13 for resuming hearing on Jamaat-e-Islami's appeal against a High Court verdict that scrapped its registration with the Election Commission as a political party.

A seven-member bench headed by the chief justice set the date following a prayer from Jamaat's lawyer Mohammad Shishir Manir.

The HC on August 1, 2013 scrapped Jamaat's registration with the EC following a writ petition filed by Syed Rezaul Haque Chandpuri, secretary general of the Bangladesh Tariqat Federation, along with 24 others, on January 25, 2009.

The EC scrapped Jamaat's registration in October 2018.