The High Court Tuesday summarily rejected a writ petition challenging the validity of the appointment of two incumbent High Court judges as chairman and member of the international crimes tribunal now trying the perpetrators of crimes against humanity during the country’s liberation war in 1971.
The High Court in its judgment termed constitutional the appointments of the two incumbent HC judges, saying that the actions did not hit the basic structure of the Constitution, independence of the Judiciary and principle of separation of power.
On March 25, the government appointed a 3-member International Crimes Tribunal consisting of incumbent HC judge M Nizamul Huq as its chairman and justice ATM Fazle Rabbi as one of the members.
Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Justice Syeda Afsar Jahan delivered the judgment.
--UNB, Dhaka
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