Appellate Division overturns verdict declaring Jamaat’s registration illegal

In 2009, Syed Rezaul Haque Chandpuri and 25 others filed a writ petition challenging the validity of Jamaat’s registration as a political party by the Election Commission.

After the final hearing of the petition, a three-member larger bench of the High Court delivered a majority verdict on 1 August 2013, declaring Jamaat’s registration illegal.

At the same time, the court granted a certificate allowing appeal against the verdict, which was converted into a formal appeal later that year.

Jamaat also filed a regular leave to appeal—an application seeking permission to appeal—against the High Court ruling in 2013.

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