The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has ruled the oath of office of 290 MPs of the 11th Parliament was valid.
At the same time, the court also dismissed the leave-to-appeal filed against the rejection of the writ petition challenging the validity of their oath.
An Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order on Tuesday.
Barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon appeared for the writ petition.
On the other hand, Attorney General AM Amin Uddin, Additional Attorney General Sheikh Mohammad Morshed, Assistant Attorney General Mohammad Saiful Alam and Assistant Attorney General Sayem Mohammad Murad represented the state.
On July 27, the Appellate Division of Supreme Court fixed the date for hearing the appeal.
On January 8, 2019, a writ was filed that challenged the legality of taking the oath of elected members of the 11th National Parliament without dissolving the 10th National Parliament as per the constitution.
A legal notice was served on the speaker of the national parliament, the chief election commissioner and the cabinet secretary.
On February 18, 2019, the High Court rejected that writ petition that challenged the legality of oath taking by lawmakers elected in the December 30, 2018 general election.
A bench of the High Court Division of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil passed the order saying that there was nothing illegal in oath taken by the MPs saying that there is nothing illegal in taking oath taken by the lawmakers as they took charge of their offices on January 30.
Earlier, another HC bench of Justice Md Moinul Islam Chowdhury and Justice Md Ashraful Kamal dismissed the petition on January 17 saying that the matter was 'not placed before it for hearing'.
Later, lawyers supported by BNP filed an appeal against this order with the Chamber Judge court.
