SC compound may be heated

Mohammad Ali

Concerned authorities in the judiciary are waiting anxiously to see as to how Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque deals with the much-debated issue of administering oaths to two 'controversial' judges of the High Court.

To set his mind in this regard, the Chief Justice has already started taking opinions of legal experts and leaders of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA).

However, sources in the Supreme Court said, the court compound might be heated if oath of the two judges was administered as the SCBA had already declared to wage tough movement against the swearing in.

31 SC benches reconstituted

Staff Reporter

Some 31 benches of the Supreme Court were reconstituted on Thursday.

The Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque reformed the benches and redistributed their jurisdictions.

The benches with new jurisdictions will be effective from October 24.

CJ ABM Khairul Haque, after taking his office on September 30 last, reconstituted the HC benches for the second time.

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Govt won’t ban parties based on religion

RELIGIOUS PARTIES

At a regular weekly cabinet meeting on October 18 with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, it was stated that the government has no plan to ban any religion-based political party. A minister, who attended the meeting, preferring anonymity, informed reporters that the government would hold talks with the religion-based political parties, barring the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, to clear confusion on the matter.

According to him, the premier also directed the ministers to explain the government’s position vis-à-vis the issue of banning religion-based political parties among the people.

Complexity of reprinting Constitution

Mostafa Kamal Majumder

The upper echelon of the national administration is learnt to have been against banning religion-based politics. Ministers have reportedly been asked to assuage leaders of the religion-based parties and, if necessary, talk to them except those of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh. Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed on the other hand said last week that his ministry has initiated the process of printing the Constitution as per the verdict of the High Court Division which declared the 5th amendment of the Constitution illegal.