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The High Court (HC) has declared parliament membership of Awami League MP Nizam Uddin Hazari legal.
The single bench of Justice Md Abu Zafor Siddique passed the order on Thursday. The justice handed down the verdict rejecting the writ petition filed challenging the legality of his parliament membership.
Advocate Satyaranjon Mandal, lawyer of the petitioner, said the same bench on Tuesday set today for delivering its verdict on completion of the hearing.
Earlier January 15, the single bench of Justice Farid Ahmed felt embarrassed to hear the petition and sent it to the then acting Chief Justice Md Abdul Wahhab Miah, reports UNB.
Later, the acting chief justice assigned Justice Md Abu Zafar Siddique for hearing and disposing of the petition.
The HC felt embarrassed for eight times to hear the writ petition and gave split orders once after hearing the pleas.
In last December 6, a High Court bench delivered the dissenting verdicts on the writ petition challenging the legality of AL MP Nizam Uddin Hazari's parliament membership.
Justice Md Emdadul Huq, senior judge of the bench, declared the election of the Feni-2 constituency MP illegal while junior judge Justice FRM Nazmul Ahsan rejected the petition.
In 2014, Shakhawat Hossain Bhuiyan, a Jubo League leader of Feni, filed the writ petition with the HC attaching a newspaper report of May 10, 2014, stating that Nizam Uddin Hazari had been awarded 10 years' imprisonment in an arms case, but had been freed from prison two years and 10 months before his jail term was completed.