Engineer Ishraque Hossain, a member of the BNP Chairperson`s Committee on International Affairs, has filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking to take oath as the mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC).

The petition was submitted on Sunday to the relevant branch of the High Court on his behalf.

Earlier on Thursday, a separate writ petition seeking an injunction against administering the oath to Ishraque as DSCC mayor was dismissed by the High Court bench of Justice Md Akram Hossain Chowdhury and Justice Debashish Roy Chowdhury.

In its ruling, the court stated that the petitioner lacked the jurisdiction to file the writ. The court also noted that the case, originating from an electoral forum, was improperly brought before the High Court without exhausting the appropriate legal avenues.

On May 14, a resident of Dhaka South, Md. Mamunur Rashid, had filed the initial petition seeking a stay on Ishraque Hossain’s oath-taking and punitive action against the judge of the electoral tribunal who declared Ishraque the mayor. The petition was filed by lawyer Kazi Akbar Ali on behalf of the petitioner.

Ishraque`s new writ now seeks enforcement of the earlier tribunal judgment that declared him the rightful mayor and demands the necessary arrangements for his swearing-in to proceed.