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DHAKA, Sept 2, 2025 (BSS) - The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) 
is scheduled to hold a hearing tomorrow on a civil miscellaneous petition 
concerning the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) election.
 
Appellate Division Judge-in-Chamber 2, Justice Farah Mahbub, set the date and 
forwarded the matter to the apex court bench headed by the Chief Justice for 
hearing. "Fixed on September 3 and stay extended till that date," said the 
short order issued by the Chamber Judge Court.

The Appellate Division on September 1 stayed a High Court (HC) order that had 
suspended the DUCSU election until October 30. The SC passed the stay order 
within an hour of the High Court ruling. 
 
"Stay till filing of the Civil Miscellaneous Petition," noted Justice Farah 
Mahbub in her order yesterday.
 
"The Chamber Judge Court will hold a further hearing tomorrow. The High Court 
order will remain suspended until then, and there is no legal bar to 
continuing the electoral process," Dhaka University's counsel Advocate 
Mohammad Shishir Manir said after the order on September 1.
 
Earlier, a High Court division bench of Justice Md Habibul Gani and Justice 
Sk Tahsin Ali had stayed the DUCSU election following a writ petition filed 
by BM Fahmida Alam, a candidate for liberation war and democratic movement 
affairs secretary from the Left Alliance panel.

Barrister Jyotirmoy Barua represented the petitioner while Advocate Mohammad 
Shishir Manir appeared for Dhaka University. The petition challenged the 
candidacy of SM Farhad, general secretary candidate from the Oikyaboddho 
Shikkharthi Jote panel in the DUCSU election.
 
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