Staff Reporter :
Expressing concern over the increasing number of cases in the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain on Sunday said “it can not go like this”.
He passed this comment while hearing a case in the Appellate Division of the SC.
The parties in the case were represented by Attorney General Mahbubey Alam on one side and former Attorney General A F Hassan Ariff on the other.
“There are so many cases pending in the Supreme Court that there are not sufficient rooms to keep the files. The situation is critical in one word and it can’t go like this,” the Chief Justice said.
The Supreme Court’s Judicial Reform Committee in conjunction with German Development Co-operation Bangladesh (GIZ) on Saturday presented an audit report relating the resolution of case backlog and the administration of justice.
Chief Justice Hossain spoke about the issue of case backlog at the event in the Supreme Court auditorium.
On the report, the Chief Justice said, “I’m almost embarrassed by the findings of the audit report on Supreme Court cases. It cannot go on like this.”
“I have decided to sit with all the justices of the Supreme Court. I will ask them to find a resolution.”
There are around 5,15,000 cases pending in the Supreme Court at present. The figure was only 25,000 in 1982.
The figure would have crossed one million had the court not disposed of anticipatory bail pleas regularly, the Chief Justice opined.
