UNB, Dhaka
The High Court Wednesday declared “illegal” the appointment of Justice MA Aziz Chief Election Commissioner in his immediate-past tenure as CEC, sealing the scope for government to allow any chosen person to concurrently hold two constitutional posts.
A division bench, comprising Justice ABM Khairul Haque and Justice Abdul Awal, pronounced the judgment, making its twin-rule absolute.
The High Court on June 18 in 2005, following a PIL writ petition, had issued a rule upon the then CEC Aziz, the Election Commission and the government to explain why Aziz’s holding the office of CEC alongside being a sitting Supreme Court judge ’should not be held illegal’. [Read more]