Stop DCC polls process
Legal notice to CEC
A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday served a legal notice on the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) to stop the process of holding elections to bifurcated Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) until completing the legal procedures.
The Election Commission (EC) on April 9 announced that the DCC elections will be held on May 24.
Advocate Manzill Murshid sent the notice on behalf of Asaduzzaman Siddiqui, general secretary of Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB), saying that the EC had not followed the relevant rules of the Local Government (City Corporations) Act 2009 for holding the DCC elections.
The legal notice mentioned that as per Sections 27 and 28 of the act the EC had to determine the number of wards of any new city corporation, demarcate the areas of the wards and publish their names and number through a gazette notification for holding the election to it.
Officials have to be appointed from the public servants through a gazette notification for demarcating the areas of the wards of a new city corporation, according to the sections of the law, the notice said.
Manzill Murshid told The Daily Star that he mentioned in the notice that the EC had not executed Sections 27 and 28 of the Local Government (City Corporations) Act 2009 and it now cannot hold elections to the new DCC (North and South) without executing the sections.
He said he sent the notice yesterday to the CEC, secretary to the EC and Dhaka district election official by fax and mail, asking them to inform him within 48 hours after stopping the process of holding the DCC polls.
Maznill said he would take appropriate action against the respondents if they had failed to stop the election.
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