Bar Council election on June 20
HC asks to update voter list in 10 days
The High Court yesterday ordered the Bangladesh Bar Council authorities to hold its elections by June 20, with updating the voters' list within next 10 days.
The court came up with the directive while delivering verdict on a writ petition challenging the process for holding the elections to Bangladesh Bar Council, the licensing authority for allowing legal practice to lawyers.
Election to Bangladesh Bar Council was scheduled to be held on May 28.
The HC stayed process for holding the elections on April 26 for four weeks in response to a writ petition filed by four Supreme Court lawyers. It also issued a rule upon the authorities to explain why the process for holding the election on the basis of 'faulty' voter list should not be declared illegal.
The Appellate Division upheld the order of stay on May 7, asking the HC to dispose of the rule in 15 days.
The bench of Justice Hasan Foez Siddique and Justice Md Jahangir Hossain yesterday delivered the verdict after hearing on the rule.
Additional Attorney General MK Rahman, who appeared for the Bar Council, told The Daily Star that the Bar Council authorities had corrected and updated its voters' list.
His client would send the voters' list to the respective polling centres after finalising it within next 10 days.
Barrister MI Farooqui appeared for the writ petitioners.
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