Online Desk: A petition has been filed with the Supreme Court seeking a stay on a High Court order that cleared the way for GM Quader to perform duties as Jatiya Party chairman. Ziaul Haque Mridha, a former JP lawmaker, submitted the petition through his lawyer Helal Uddin yesterday asking the apex court to prohibit GM Quader from performing party activities.

Mridha’s principal lawyer Mohammad Sayeed Ahmed Raza told The Daily Star that the chamber judge of the Appellate Division of the SC may hold hearing of the petition on Sunday. Citing the petition, he said the HC passed the order without hearing arguments from Mridha.

On February 5, the HC stayed for eight weeks a Dhaka court order that on January 19 prohibited GM Quader from taking part in any activities of Jatiya Party. It also issued a rule asking Mridha and other authorities concerned to explain why the Dhaka court order should not be scrapped. Mridha, also a former adviser to the JP chief, was removed from the party on September 17 last year.