JPC Election
Next hearing on Sunday
The newly elected Jatiya Press Club (JPC) president and general secretary yesterday appeared before a Dhaka court seeking its permission to contest the case filed on Wednesday challenging the legality of handing and taking over the charge and running the function.
President Kamal Uddin Sabuj and General Secretary Syed Abdal Ahmed appeared before the Fourth Assistant Judge's Court and submitted a petition to cancel its earlier order of an ad-interim injunction against them.
On the other hand, the plaintiffs' lawyers submitted a petition seeking extension of the ad-interim injunction till disposal of the case.
After hearing both the sides, Judge Mohammad Muzahidul Islam fixed Sunday for further hearing on all the petitions filed by the plaintiffs and defendants.
Meanwhile, lawyers of eight defendants including the president and general secretary submitted written statements seeking cancellation of the case.
But Mohammad Zakaria Pintu, chairman of the election commission of JPC polls, and four other members of the commission were yet to appear before the court to contest the case though they were asked not to hand over the charge to the new executive committee.
On Wednesday, the same court issued an ad-interim injunction against the JPC election commission asking it not to hand over the charge to the new committee.
The order will remain valid till appearance of the election commissioners and other defendants before the court.
The court passed the order after Golam Sarwar, editor of the daily Samakal; and Saiful Alam, executive editor of the daily Jugantor; filed a case against JPC Election Commission Chairman Mohammad Zakaria Pintu and 12 others.
The court also issued a show cause notice on the JPC election commission and other defendants to explain within a day why they will not be asked to refrain from handing over the charge to the new committee by temporary injunction.
The new executive committee, elected in the polls on December 31 last year, had taken the charges before the court order reached JPC.
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