Staff Reporter :
A 11-member committee has been formed under the leadership of Attorney General Mahbubey Alam for filing a review petition against the Supreme Court (SC) verdict on the 16th amendment to the Constitution.
The committee will study and examine the relevant law points for preparing and moving the review petition against the SC verdict on the 16th amendment to the Constitution, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told The New Nation.
The review petition will be filed when it will be prepared, he said.
Replying to a question, Mahbubey Alam said that in the review petition the government would pray to the apex court to restore the Parliament’s power to remove SC judges on the ground of incapacity or misconduct.
He said that the government had been informed about formation of the committee.
The other members of the committee are- Additional
Attorney Generals Murad Reza and Momtaz Uddin Fakir, Deputy Attorney Generals Motahar Hossain Saju, Bishwajit Debnath, Ekramul Huq Tutul, Masud Hasan Chowdhury Parag, Khandakar Diliruzzaman, Amit Talukdar and Rashed S Jahangir and Assistant Attorney General Bashir Ahmed.
The Appellate Division of the SC upheld a High Court verdict that scrapped the 16th amendment to the Constitution that empowered the Parliament to remove SC judges for incapacity or misconduct.
The apex court on August 1 released the full text of the judgment.
A 11-member committee has been formed under the leadership of Attorney General Mahbubey Alam for filing a review petition against the Supreme Court (SC) verdict on the 16th amendment to the Constitution.
The committee will study and examine the relevant law points for preparing and moving the review petition against the SC verdict on the 16th amendment to the Constitution, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told The New Nation.
The review petition will be filed when it will be prepared, he said.
Replying to a question, Mahbubey Alam said that in the review petition the government would pray to the apex court to restore the Parliament’s power to remove SC judges on the ground of incapacity or misconduct.
He said that the government had been informed about formation of the committee.
The other members of the committee are- Additional
Attorney Generals Murad Reza and Momtaz Uddin Fakir, Deputy Attorney Generals Motahar Hossain Saju, Bishwajit Debnath, Ekramul Huq Tutul, Masud Hasan Chowdhury Parag, Khandakar Diliruzzaman, Amit Talukdar and Rashed S Jahangir and Assistant Attorney General Bashir Ahmed.
The Appellate Division of the SC upheld a High Court verdict that scrapped the 16th amendment to the Constitution that empowered the Parliament to remove SC judges for incapacity or misconduct.
The apex court on August 1 released the full text of the judgment.
