President Md Sahabuddin ordered the Supreme Judicial Council to conduct thorough investigation against several judges of the High Court (HC) for misconduct.
Now, three-member Supreme Judicial Council led by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed will start the full-investigation against some HC judges in next week, according to a statement issued by the Supreme Court administration on Monday.
The other members of the council are: senior judges of the Appellate Division Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam and Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury.
Earlier, on December 15, the Supreme Court stated in another notice that after conducting preliminary investigations against some HC judges, the Supreme Judicial Council sent its reports to the President in accordance with Article 96 of the Constitution regarding the removal of judges.
Before that the SC in another notice issued on December 4 stated that the Supreme Judicial Council was conducting a preliminary investigation into allegations of misconduct against several judges and that progress had been made in the investigation.
About 20 days later, on Monday, the Supreme Court administration said, 'Following Article 96 (5) (b) of the Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, the President has sent instructions to the Supreme Judicial Council to investigate the conduct of some judges of the HC. Accordingly, the Supreme Judicial Council will start the investigation next week.'
Twelve High Court judges are currently without benches after over a group of students demonstrated on the SC premises on October 16 demanding the removal of the "pro-Awami League judges."
The 12 HC judges -- Justice Md Ataur Rahman Khan, Justice Naima Haider, Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif, Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar, Justice Ashish Ranjan Das, Justice Khizir Hayat, Justice SM Maniruzzaman, Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman, Justice Md Akhtaruzzaman, Justice Shahed Nuruddin, Justice Md Aminul Islam, and Justice SM Masud Hossain Dolon -- have not been given judicial duties since then.
