No Tangail by-polls before Jan 31: SC

Published: 2 November 2015, 06:50 AM
No Tangail by-polls before Jan 31: SC

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has asked for postponing the Tangail-4 by poll till January 31.

A four-member bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order on Monday morning.

The HC on October 21 following a writ petition filed by Kader Siddique directed the Election Commission to accept his nomination and issued the rule upon the EC and government to explain why cancellation of his nomination on load default could not be declared illegal.

Earlier on October 21, the SC chamber judge had stayed the process for the holding the election till today.