Source: Scoop Independent News
Wednesday, 9 January 2013, 4:03 pm
Press Release: Asian Human Rights Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AHRC-STM-010-2013
January 8, 2013
A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission
Bangladesh: Why Should Judicial Independence Be Delayed Any Further?
The judiciary of Bangladesh is struggling to be an independent institution, free from executive control since the inception of the country. This struggle was formally exposed when a group of judicial officers led by Mr. Masdar Hossain – currently a District and Sessions’ Judge – took the matter to the High Court Division in 1995.
The Supreme Court directed the government, vide its judgment dated 2 December 1999, that how the judiciary should be separated – in terms of its day-to-day functions, formally as an institution and financially, from the executive. Regrettably, governments failed to comply with the Supreme Court’s directions, that otherwise would have severed the bondage between the judiciary and the executive. Had the Court’s decree complied with, it would have provided the judiciary its much lacking independence.
Categories: Asia, Bangladesh, Civil Rights, Law