Law Minister Shafique Ahmed on Monday said the government would take steps to restore the spirit of original constitution of 1972 after getting copy of the Supreme Court judgment over the fifth amendment to the constitution.
The government is going to appoint around 15 new judges to the High Court division of the Supreme Court within this week. Sources said these judges would be appointed as part of the government's plan to appoint a total of 50 more judges to the HC to deal with a huge backlog of pending cases.
The Supreme Court Appellate Division has fixed Thursday to give a ruling on an appeal by Jamuna Builders challenging a previous High Court order for demolition of the illegal stories of the company's Future Park development in the city. A full Appellate Division bench headed by chief justice Fazlul Karim fixed the date after a hearing Wednesday.
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed for six weeks a High Court verdict that declared illegal and void the existing Warrant of Precedence. The HC on February 4 directed the government to issue a new Warrant of Precedence for the republic's officers, giving district judges and equivalent judicial officers precedence over the chiefs of armed forces and government secretaries.
Judges of the Supreme Court divisions should publish their wealth statements in the interest of a transparent judiciary, chief justice-designate Mohammad Fazlul Karim yesterday said. "The judges in India place their wealth statements in annual court reports, and I feel that the judges in our country too should do that for transparency," he said. Justice Karim was talking to reporters at his SC office yesterday afternoon.
BNP has said the Supreme Court's dismissal of Fifth Amendment petitions raises questions over the apex court's "neutrality and independence", while the country was thrown into a "constitutional crisis" by the ruling.
The Supreme Court will pass its order on the two writ petitions challenging the High Court verdict that declared the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution illegal. The six-member full bench led by Chief Justice Tafazzul Islam set the date after concluding the hearing on leave to appeal petitions yesterday. Justice TH Khan and Barrister Moudud Ahmed pleaded for the applicants.
The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday observed that there should be measures so that the rule of martial law could not be imposed in the country in future. The apex court made the observation during the third day's hearing on the leave-to-appeal petitions challenging the High Court (HC) verdict that declared the fifth amendment to the country's constitution illegal and void.
The Supreme Court has asked the attorney general to take steps so that the media desist from publishing any photo of a manila rope, which is used for execution by hanging. The four-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Md Tafazzul Islam passed the order yesterday.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked 14 sugar traders to surrender before the trial court within four weeks in two cases filed against them on charge of hoarding huge quantity of sugar last year. Passing the order, a four-member Appellate bench, headed by Chief Justice M Tafazzul Islam, however, directed the law enforcers not to harass or arrest the alleged unscrupulous sugar traders in the meantime.
