The High Court yesterday dropped a plea from the cause list that sought scraping of the parliament membership of Jatiya Party Chairman and Prime Minister’s Special Envoy HM Ershad.
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal leader Sabbir Ahmed, who had contested the January 5 poll from Rangpur 3 constituency, filed the writ petition alleging that Ershad had concealed information about his educational certificate and wealth in the affidavit submitted to the Election Commission.
When his lawyer went to the bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Jahangir Hossain, they came to know that it had been dropped from the cause list.
Sabbir last moth filed the petition where he made the chief election commissioner, the chairman of Dhaka Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, the chief of Anti-Corruption Commission and Ershad respondents.
He sought a rule from the court seeking educational documents from the education board chief, DU and Ershad.
If failed, the petitioner sought rule on the chief election commission to scrap Ershad’s candidature and declare Sabbir as the lawmaker from the constituency.
He urged the court to order withdrawal of all the facilities Ershad now enjoys as a lawmaker until disposal of the rule.
Sabbir also sought resumption of a money laundering case filed against Ershad by now-defunct Anti-Corruption Bureau in 1995.
A former military dictator, Ershad had withdrawn his candidature before the January 5 election but the EC did not accept it since it was not submitted following rules.