CJ wants to know why Fakhrul case not in cause list
STAFF REPORTER
Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha yesterday (Tuesday) asked the Registrar General of the Supreme Court to find out why the matter of BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir did not figure in the cause list for hearing.
On Monday, a five-member bench of the Appellate Division asked the BNP leader to submit by Tuesday an affidavit on the controversial remark he made on the judiciary recently. But the matter was not there in yesterdays cause list of the apex court for hearing.
When the apex court started the days proceedings, the Chief Justice summoned senior officials of the apex court, including Registrar General Syed Aminul Islam, for explaining their position on the missing Alamgir matter.
The Chief Justice asked the Registrar General to investigate the matter as officials failed to give a satisfactory answer.
Coming out of the court, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said the apex court asked the Registrar General to conduct an investigation into the matter.
Later, the Registrar General told reporters that the Chief Justice asked him to find out why the Alamgir matter was not there in the daily cause list. I cannot say anything more on this before getting the order of the apex court, he added.
On February 18, the apex court asked the BNP leader to explain his comments made against the judiciary at a party meeting in Sylhet on February 7.
According to media reports, he had said that the government was trying to control the judiciary.
He had gone on to say that there was no democracy and no independent judiciary in the country.
The apex court sought the explanation by February 22, while hearing three bail petitions filed by Alamgir in cases related to arson and vandalism him.
The next hearing on the pleas is on February 23 (today). On November 24, 2015, the High Court (HC) had granted bail for three months to Alamgir in the three cases. The government then challenged the HC order in the apex court on November 26.
However, the SC upheld the lower courts order on November 30. On the same day, Alamgir was released from Part-2 of Kashimpur Central Jail after the apex courts bail order reached the prison authorities.
On 6 January last year, policemen in plainclothes had picked up Alamgir as he came out of the Jatiya Press Club after staying there for nearly 25 hours, following the BNPs announcement to observe January 5 as Democracy Killing Day, protesting against the 10th parliamentary polls.
