The bench of Justice JBM Hassan and Md Khairul Alam refused to hear the petition tagging it “not pressed”. Farooque had taken loans of more than Tk 50 billion from the Sonali Bank but failed to repay, Karim said. But Farooque’s affidavit submitted to the EC is dated Nov 28 and so the Dec 2 papers cannot be considered while scrutinising the Awami League candidate’s nomination papers, Karim argued. It did not accept the writ petition and cited the technicality that Andaleeve Partho had not appealed to the EC first. Partho is son-in-law to Sheikh Helal, son of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s brother Sheikh Naser.

Source: bd News24 December 26, 2018 21:33 UTC