The Mujib murder case awaits the final disposal by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court even eight years and four months inside the High Court verdict which approved the death sentence of 12 former army personnel. The Appellate Division on September 23, 2007 allowed five of the convicts sentenced to death to appeal against the High Court verdict.
The government is planning to appoint 50 more judges to the High Court (HC) Division and a few judges to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) to deal with a huge backlog of cases.
A group of about 150 members of the Judicial Sevice Association yesterday went to Bangladesh Secretariat and forced their way to the office of Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed, witnesses said.
President Zillur Rahman today increased the number of the Appellate Division judges, creating four more posts, from seven to 11. The new judges are expected to be appointed to the apex court in next week.
BNP standing committee member and former law minister Barrister Moudud Ahmed MP has said that the caretaker government system, if necessary, can be modified but it should not be repealed.
The High Court (HC) today issued a rule upon the government to explain within four weeks why extra-judicial killings ‘in the name of crossfire or encounter’ should not be declared illegal.
Deputy leader of the house Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury today urged the lawmakers to take steps to scrap the caretaker government system and strengthen the Election Commission (EC), a proposal backed by Jatiya Party chairman H M Ershad and some other MPs.
The High Court yesterday issued a rule upon former Dhaka University Vice-chancellor Prof Emajuddin Ahmed to show cause within three weeks as to why contempt proceeding should not be drawn against him for his skeptical statement against its landmark verdict on who proclaimed the independence in 1971.
The Supreme Court (SC) today did not interfere in the High Court (HC) judgement that declared Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the proclaimer of the independence of the republic.
President Zillur Rahman today appointed nine additional judges to the High Court for two years.
