85 election officials won’t get back job

The Appellate Division has published its full verdict that scrapped a judgment in favor of reinstatement of 85 upazila election officials.

The Appellate Division has published its full verdict that scrapped a judgment in favor of reinstatement of 85 upazila election officials recruited during the BNP-Jamaat alliance government.
The verdict was published on the website of the Supreme Court on Thursday after Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique and five other judges signed in it.
According to the court, the BNP-Jamaat government appointed a total of 327 upazila election officials through the Public Service Commission in 2005. The recruitment stirred widespread controversy which led to an evaluation of the officials by the caretaker government in 2007. The evaluation resulted in dismissal of 85 election officials.
The sacked officials filed a case against the government decision with the Administrative Appellate Tribunal and got rejected. However, on April 12, 2010, the tribunal accepted an appeal filed by the ex-election officials and pronounced a judgment in favor of their reinstatement.
The prosecution filed a total of four leave-to-appeal petitions after the tribunal’s judgment, based on which a chamber court of the Appellate Division  stayed the effectiveness of the tribunal’s judgment and sent the case to a full bench of the Appellate Division on April 29, 2010.
A six-member bench led by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddiqui pronounced a judgment, accepting the state’s appeal against the tribunal’s decision.