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Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked her Cabinet colleagues not to issue any reaction over the Supreme Court (SC) verdict on the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, a senior minister said, quoting the PM after the Cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister\u2019s directive came after law minister advocate Anisul Huq informed her of the verdict of the Appellate Division of the SC upholding the High Court verdict that declared illegal the 16th amendment to the Constitution that had empowered Parliament to impeach judges.<\/p>\n
The PM has told the ministers that the judgement has proved once again how independent the judiciary is in Bangladesh. \u201cPlease wait and see until the full verdict of the SC is available,\u201d the PM said.<\/p>\n
Talking to reporters after the Cabinet meeting, Anisul Huq said he would not make any comment without receiving the full text of the verdict. \u201cI don\u2019t understand how it has become ultra vires to the Constitution when Parliament restored it after a martial law ruler put it before the Supreme Judicial Council in the Constitution, which replaced Article 96 of the constitution of 1972,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope the full text of the verdict will be available soon and then I\u2019ll issue my comments,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Replying to a question, the law minister stated that the content mentioned in Article 96 of the Constitution described the process of impeachment of a Justice in all the democratic and developed countries in the world, and that was why it was included in the constitution of 1972.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Supreme Judicial Council was also included in the constitution amended by Ayub Khan in 1962,\u201d he said. Ayub Khan was Pakistan\u2019s military ruler.<\/p>\n
Asked whether there will be any problem after the verdict regarding the Supreme Judicial Council, Huq said there would be something more different from what was there in the past. \u201cIt was different before 2014, and now Parliament has scrapped it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Dismissing the government\u2019s appeal, a seven-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, upheld the HC verdict on Monday. It had declared illegal the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which had empowered Parliament to impeach judges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked her Cabinet colleagues not to issue any reaction over the Supreme Court (SC) verdict on the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, a senior minister said, quoting the PM after the Cabinet meeting. The Prime Minister\u2019s directive came after law minister advocate Anisul Huq informed her of the verdict […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":34576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n