The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today fixed May 13 for resuming hearing on Jamaat-e-Islami's appeal against a High Court verdict that scrapped its registration with the Election Commission as a political party.

A full bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed set the date following a prayer from Jamaat's lawyer Mohammad Shishir Manir.

The HC on August 1, 2013 scrapped the Jamaat's registration with the EC as a political party following a writ petition. Maulana Syed Rezaul Haque Chandpuri, secretary general of the Bangladesh Tariqat Federation, along with 24 others, filed the petition on January 25, 2009, seeking its order declaring the Jamaat's registration illegal.

The EC scrapped the Jamaat's registration in October 2018, ahead of the 11th national election.

Then Jamaat filed the appeal with the Appellate Division challenging the HC judgment.

The Appellate Division started hearing of the appeal on December 3 last year.