Staff Reporter :
Normal court functions will remain closed during the “strict restrictions” period to be enforced from today (Wednesday).
Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain made the decision in line with the restrictions imposed by the government.
The chief justice, however, also decided to operate the judicial proceedings of the courts including the Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court on a limited scale for disposing of “very urgent” cases during the lock down period. The SC administration issued three separate notifications today to this effect.
The notifications upheld the earlier decisions saying that Court No-1 of the Appellate Division (a full bench of the Appellate Division headed by the chief justice) will run judicial functions from 9:30 am to 12 pm on every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday and its chamber judge will deal with cases from 11 am on every Monday and Wednesday.
Four High Court benches, three-division benches (two-judge) and a single-member (one judge), out of total 52 will perform judicial functions virtually to deal with the urgent writ, civil, criminal, company, and admiralty related petitions.
The division benches are— Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman; Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice Shahed Nuruddin; and Justice JBM Hassan and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil. The single-member bench was formed with Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar.
Besides, a magistrate will deal with urgent cases under the district and sessions judge, metropolitan sessions judge, women and children repression prevention tribunal, children court, chief judicial magistrate, and chief metropolitan magistrate court in every district strictly following health safety guidelines during the period of strict restrictions, according to the notifications.
