Staff Correspondent
Jurist Shahdeen Malik on Wednesday (Jan 310 announced that he would not practice law in the Supreme Court unless the president appoints the chief justice. He also said that lawyers now needed taking police permission for entering the court premises.
‘Until the two issues are settled, I personally will not come to the court from tomorrow,’ Shahdeen told reporters at a briefing in the Supreme Court Bar Association building. Shahdeen said that the lawyers had never thought Bangladesh would remain without the chief justice for such a long period.
‘The post of the chief justice has remained vacant without any reasonable explanation,’ he said, adding, the lawyers had never expected a Supreme Court where they would require police permission to enter into their workplace.
Replying to a question, Shahdeen said that the absence of the chief justice meant that the government was controlling the judiciary. ‘People are gradually losing their confidence in judiciary because of such government interference in the Supreme Court,’ he warned.
The vacancy in the office of chief justice occurred on November 11 last after Chief Justice SK Sinha tendered his resignation. Justice Md Abdul Wahhab Miah, the senior-most Appellate Division judge, has since been performing the duties of the chief justice.
- Courtesy: New Age/Feb 1, 2018
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