Staff Reporter :Former Supreme Court (SC) Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury on Monday afternoon returned some 65 files of judgments and orders of some cases written after his retirement, to the SC Justice Imman Ali to the appellate division. “I have handed over a total of 65 files of judgments and orders to the office of Justice Mohammad Imman Ali on Monday at about 3.30pm. I will return the remaining all files of judgments and orders within four days,” after coming out from the appellate division he told journalists. He said now Justice Imman Ali will examine the judgments and orders and then he will send them to Justice Md Abdul Wahhab Miah, who is the presiding judge of the bench, for scrutiny.”Later, Justice Wahhab Miah will send the judgments and orders to me for my signature. Once I sign, Justice Imman Ali and then Justice Wahhab Miah will sign the judgments and orders for their release,” Shamsuddin Choudhury said.He added he has completed writing all the judgments and orders of total 85 cases and there is no case pending with him. Earlier on the same day and just before one hour, Shamsuddin Choudhury categorically ruled out returning the files of all the cases, terming the Chief Justice’s (CJ) order as ‘illegal’. “I wouldn’t comply with his (CJ) order and I will never do it. His order is an illegal one. I want his (JC) immediate resignation,” he told journalists at the outside of SC gate yesterday at about 2.30pm. Earlier on Sunday in a press release CJ SK Sinha asked AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury to return to the SC registrar office the files of all the cases the verdicts of which he could not write while in service immediately. He alleged CJ SK Sinha continued to make the country’s judiciary controversial by delivering political speech. “By giving political statements, Chief Justice SK Sinha is now implementing the BNP Chairperson’s Khaleda Zia’s agenda,” Shamsuddin Choudhury said, adding parliament also rejected the CJ’s statement.”On Monday I’m going to submit some of written judgment and order to SC’s Justice Iman Ali,” the former SC Judge said.Besides Justice Iman Ali, he said that he is also going to submit his written judgments to the senior SC Judge Abdul Wahhab Miah. “Earlier on Sunday senior SC Judge Abdul Wahhab Miah agreed to receive my written judgments and orders,” AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury said.He accused the CJ of locking his office door under key and removing employees, papers and computers from there after going on retirement.”As door remains under key and lock I can’t write the judgment. But I’m writing the judgment with my hand,” he said. On Sunday at a press briefing on the SC premises, Justice Shamsuddin said he sent a letter to the CJ requesting him to receive the judgments and orders written by him after going on retirement.”On Sunday I had gone to submit my written judgments to the office concerned after going on retirement, but officers concerned did not accept those, even his presiding judge Abdul Wahhab Miah refused to accept the files,” he said.However, the SC registrar office said they did not receive any letter from the former justice.On January 29, Chief Justice SK Sinha said some judges continued to write their judgments after their retirement that is against the law and the Constitution.Justice Shamsuddin went into retirement on October 1 last year. In a statement on the occasion of the first anniversary of his taking office as the country’s 21st chief justice, Surendra Kumar Sinha said some judges make unusual delays in writing verdicts while others continue to write them long after they have retired from the service, which goes against the law and the constitution.
