The Supreme Court has scrapped a High Court order that stayed the election of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) for two months.
A three-member appeals bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order Thursday morning.
Following the order, there is no bar on FBCCI to holding its biennial election scheduled on May 14.
The bench also asked to include Mymemsingh chamber’s president Aminul Haque Shamim as its divisional director by May 30.
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The election is scheduled to be held on May 14. The FBCCI announced the schedule on February 14.
On March 22, the High Court stayed for two months the election after a hearing on a writ petition filed on February 6 by Mymensingh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) leader Shamim, seeking a stay on the process allowing the MCCI to get enlisted in the FBBCI voter list.
In his petition, Shamim alleged that there are anomalies in the voter list as his name was not in it.
Mymensingh was a made a division in 2015 and the local chamber of commerce and industry pleaded to the FBCCI in 2016 for its inclusion, but the process has not forwarded over the last one year.
On March 23 last, the Chamber Judge of Supreme Court sent the petition to a regular bench of the Appellate Division and fixed March 27 for the hearing.