Salary of judges
The salary structure of High Court Judges, and for that matter, all Judges in Bangladesh, are so low that, speaking from the point of view of practicality, it is impossible to expect honest and duly diligent deliberations from them in the dispensation of justice.
For example a High Court Judge, as far as we know, gets a salary of Tk. 29,000 per month. A furnished residence is supposed to be provided to them, but which in reality is hard to implement. Judges therefore stay in their own residences which in many cases have been handed down to them from family sources. With the recent salary hike, a Judge in Kolkata High Court gets about Rs. 80,000 per month plus other benefits.
Since it has been reported that 50 new High Court Judges shall be appointed next year, I think the salary issue should be examined in detail.
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