Court clears way for Nipun to act as BFAA GS

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for actress Nipun Akter to serve as the general secretary of the Bangladesh Film Artistes’ Association.

A three-member bench led by Chief Justice Hasan Foyez Siddiqui accepted Nipun’s leave to appeal against the High Court verdict declaring actor Zayed Khan’s candidacy for the post of general secretary in the election legal.

After this ruling of the highest court of the country, the ongoing conflict between Nipun and Zayed Khan over the post of general secretary is supposed to be ended.

However, Zayed Khan is not satisfied with this verdict. On Monday afternoon, Zayed Khan said,“The court accepted Nipun’s leave to appeal petition. Now the hearing will be held. I am preparing for the hearing. I believe, the verdict will be in my favour at the hearing because I have been elected as general secretary.” On March 2, the HC cleared the way for Zayed to serve as the general secretary of the BFFA after striking down the decision of the Election Appeal Board of the association.

Nipun again took the fight to court and filed an appeal before the Appellate Division. The association election was held on January 28.

Zayed was declared as general secretary after he defeated Nipun in a close contest.