Outgoing chief justice Syed Mahmud Hossain in his farewell speech on Wednesday called for framing rules to appoint Supreme Court judges in the light of the constitution of Bangladesh.
He said that making the rules was essential to ensure transparency, expediting the process of appointing Supreme Court judges, and baseless conception of people over the process of appointing Supreme Court judges.
Justice Mahmud Hossain said that he was happy to know that the government started work to frame a law to appoint Supreme Court judges.
Supreme Court Bar Association secretary Ruhul Quddus Kazal and five other opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party backed leaders of the association boycotted the traditional felicitation programme alleging that they were not invited by the Supreme Court administration.
Later Kazal along with the five leaders of the association at a press briefing alleged that the Supreme Court administration had been addressing the attorney general as the president of the association although the post of the president remained vacant after the death of Abdul Matin Khasru on April 14, 2021.
Kazal accused the Supreme Court administration of favoring politically and dividing the association through the dissemination of misleading information about the association’s post.
Attorney general AM Amin Uddin and the association’s vice-president Shafique Ullah with seven-member executive committee of AL backed faction of the SCBA committee, felicitated the chief justice at the Chief Justice’s courtroom.
The chief justice is due to retire on December 30, and December 15 was his last-working day before the Supreme Court would go to winter vacation for 14 days from December 19.
Syed Mahmud Hossain was appointed as the 22th chief justice of Bangladesh on February 2, 2018 after resignation of the then chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha from abroad amid protests of ruling Awami League leaders and lawyers.
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