The High Court on Thursday has rejected the election petition which claimed that law minister Anisul Huq was the law adviser of Anti-Corruption Commission while submitting nomination paper in Brahmanbaria-4 constituency for the last parliamentary election.
The HC bench of Justice Soumendra Sarker has delivered the judgement as it found that Anisul was a panel lawyer of the anti-graft body which was not a profitable post.
AM Amin Uddin pleaded for the law minister while Shahidul Haque Bhuiyan contended for the petitioner.
The election plea was filed on February 11 by Khandaker Hebzur Rahman, a candidate of Jatiyo Party (Manju), whose candidature was cancelled by the EC.
The petition alleged that as Anisul was law adviser of ACC, a profitable post, he could not be a candidate as per the Representation of the People Order, 1972. But Anisul said he was a panel lawyer at that time.
