Appeal against HC order allowing GM Quader to continue as JaPa chair
Expelled Jatiya Party (JaPa) leader and former lawmaker Ziaul Haque Mridha on Thursday appealed against a High Court order that has allowed GM Quader to perform his activities as the party chairman.
Ziaul Haque Mridha filed the appeal with the Appellate Division, his lawyer Helal Uddin said.
The appeal might be heard at the chamber court of the Appellate Division on 12 February, he added.
It is worth noting that GM Quader removed Mridha from the party on 17 September.
Earlier, on Sunday (5 February), the High Court stayed a Dhaka court order that had barred Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader from party activities, for eight weeks.
At that time, the High Court also asked the government to explain within four weeks why the lower court ban on Quader's activities as party chairman would not be scrapped permanently.
Following the High Court go-ahead, GM Quader's lawyer Sheikh Muhammad Sirajul Islam had said that there was no bar for Quader to perform his duties as the chairman of the Jatiya Party.
However, Ziaul Haque Mridha had said that he would appeal against the High Court order.
Earlier, on 4 October, Ziaul Haque Mridha filed a case seeking an order to prevent GM Quader from conducting party activities. Consequently, the First Joint District Judge Court of Dhaka ordered a temporary ban on all party activities of GM Quader on 31 October.
Later, Sheikh Sirajul Islam, Kalim Ullah Majumdar and several other lawyers appealed on behalf of GM Quader. The petition sought revocation of the ban on GM Quader from serving as the chairman of the party as per the party's constitution.
On 19 January, after hearing the appeal, a Dhaka court upheld the order of the Joint District Judge Court barring GM Quader from all party activities.