The value of Bangladesh Supreme Court apparently took a big plunge under it’s new leader Justice Khairul Haque.
Few months ago, the market rate of the honor of Bangladesh Supreme Court was 100,000 taka and six months jail sentence. That was under the leadership of former Chief Justice Fazlul Karim.The full bench of the court decided that rate when they sentenced newspaper editor Mahmudur Rahman for a report what they thought was truthful yet contemptuous of court.
So it was a matter of huge public curiosity when the same editor Mahmudur Rahman was brought back to the highest court for a second contempt of court case against him. And again the three men ( two men short this time, as two seniormost judges are not working out of ‘oviman’ as they were superseded by JusticeKhairul haque to be Chief Justice) found editor Mahmudur Rahman guilty of contempt of court.
However there was a difference in sentencing. Justice Khairul Haque led court only sentenced editor Mahmudur Rahman a fine of 100 taka and no jail term. A major plunge from 100,000 taka and six months jail fixed by previous court.
Well, this is only the first month of Justice Khairul Haque’s Supreme Court. Let’s see what comes next. From 100,000 to 100 taka in a month. Then what?
October 11, 2010 at 11:06 am
New CJ on Chamber Judge :
http://theindependentbd.com/paper-edition/frontpage/129-frontpage/12246-people-risk-landing-in-jail-for-speaking-truth-rafiq-ul-haque.html
June 18, 2012 at 7:04 pm
[...] In Bangladesh, the original judicial superhero was Chief Justice Khairul Haque. He is the one who saved Bangladesh from all the evil Bangla’r Cromwell committed all the way back to the Battle of Plassey. It’s only the cowardice of the current government that his dreams of exhuming Ziaur Rahman’s body and hanging it, like they did with the British Zia, goes unfulfilled. Why, His Lordship Judge Khairul could have contributed to the fight against inflation had he been given the chance considering the way he made the court more affordable. [...]