Dhaka, April 28 -- The Election Commission has accepted the court's ruling and declared BNP leader Ishraque Hossain as the mayor of Dhaka South five years after the polls.

EC Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said the commission had issued a gazette appointing him as mayor on Sunday, as per a bdnews24.com report.

The EC published the gazette after receiving word from the law ministry, he said.

A copy of the gazette was sent to the Local Government Division to take the next step for the swearing-in of the new mayor.

On Mar 27, Judge Md Nurul Islam of Dhaka District Judge's Court and the Election Tribunal court declared Ishraque Hossain as the mayor of Dhaka South, scrapping the 2020 election results where Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh emerged victorio...