The Appellate Division on Monday upheld the judgment of the High Court that had declared the decision the redrawing of the boundaries of Pirojpur-1 and 2 constituencies by the Election Commission (EC) as valid.
The six-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Obaidul Hasan passed the order.
Senior lawyers MK Rahman, Barrister Mostafizur Rahman Khan, and Sayeed Ahmed Raja stood for the writ petitioners while Attorney General AM Amin Uddin represented the state during the hearing.
Earlier, on September 3, The High Court (HC) turned down a writ petition challenging the legality of redrawing the boundaries of Pirojpur-1 and 2 constituencies by the Election Commission (EC).
The HC bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Muhammad Mahbub Ul Islam pronounced the judgment.
The court said that the Election Commission redrew the parliamentary constituencies as per the EC rules and there was no violation of rules.
Later, the petitioners appealed to the Appellate Division against this judgment.
Earlier the Pirojpur-1 constituency consisted of Sadar, Nazirpur and Nesarabad upazilas and Pirojpur-2 constituency were consisted of Kawkhali, Bhandaria and Indurkani upazilas.
Indurkani upazila was included in the Pirojpur-1 constituency and Nesarabad upazila was also added to the Pirojpur-2 constituency.
On June 3 this year the EC issued a gazette notification over the re-drawing of the constituencies.
Later Kawkhali's resident Abu Sayeed Miah, Bhandaria's Md Kaykobad, Md Ahsanul Kibria, Indurkani's Akteruzzaman and Nesarabad's Nazmul Islam submitted a writ petition challenging the legality of the EC's gazette notification.
Fisheries and livestock minister SM Rezaul Karim is the lawmaker of Pirojpur-1 constituency while Jatiya Party lawmaker Anwar Hossain Manju is the lawmaker of Pirojpur-2 constituency.
On 30 July, the HC issued a rule over the legality of the boundary re-drawing the two constituencies.
The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and others concerned were made respondents to the rule and were asked to respond within two weeks.
