CJ stresses prompt delivery of justice

Dream of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will come true if the country's people get justice in short time, said Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday.

The judiciary has been relentlessly working and will continue to work in order to establish rule of law and justice containing the ideology if the Father of the Nation, he said.

The chief justice made the comment while presiding over a virtual meeting with the judges of the Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court on the occasion of National Mourning Day yesterday morning.

Four Appellate Division judges and 28 HC Division judges attended the discussion through video conference.

Earlier in the day, the judges of the Appellate and HC Divisions paid tribute to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members, who were killed on August 15, 1975, through placing wreaths to the portrait of Bangabandhu at Judges Lounge on the Supreme Court premises, a SC press release said.

At the meeting, the CJ said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had struggled till his last breath for the democracy and rule of law. "Bangabandhu had first demanded for the separation of judiciary on February 6, 1956 when he was a member of the National Assembly of the then Pakistan. Then, he gifted the Constitution on December 16, 1972 with the provision of separation of the judiciary," he said.

Other judges told the meeting that they pledge bound to establish justice and independence of judiciary in the spirit and ideology of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The judiciary has freed the nation from stigma by completing the trial of killings of Bangabandhu and his family members, the most heinous incident in the history, they said.

Meanwhile, the attorney general's office yesterday organised a virtual discussion and prayer programme in memory of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, additional attorney generals Murad Reza and Momtaz Udddij Fakir, deputy attorney generals Bishwajit Debnath, Dr Md Bashir Ullah and AKM Amin Uddin Manik, among others, attended the discussion and prayers.