Salary Hike of SC Judges
Implement JS body recommendations
HC asks govt
The High Court yesterday asked the government to implement recommendations of the parliamentary sub-committee concerned to increase salaries and allowance of Supreme Court judges.
The bench of Justice AHM Shmsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore came up with the verdict after holding final hearing on a writ petition.
A parliamentary sub-committee in January last year recommended making the salaries and other privileges for the chief justice Tk 1.52 lakh, for the Appellate Division judge Tk 1.20 lakh and the High Court judge Tk 1.08 lakh per month, the petition said.
The grounds on which the court delivered the verdict could not be known, as the copy of the verdict was not released yet.
Petitioners' counsel Advocate Manzill Murshid stold The Daily Star that the government now has to give salaries and privileges to the judges of the Appellate and High Court Divisions of SC as per recommendations of parliamentary sub-committee following the HC verdict.
The salaries fixed by the government for the judges will now be cancelled, he said.
He added that the government in February this year made the salaries and other privileges for the chief justice Tk 56 thousand, the Appellate Division judge Tk 53 thousand and 100 and the High Court judge Tk 47 thousand per month.
Secretaries to the cabinet division, prime minister's office, president, Jatiya Sangsad, and ministries of law and finance and SC registrar have been made respondents to the verdict, he said.
Manzill Murshid and another SC lawyer Asaduzzaman Siddiki jointly filed the writ petition as public interest litigation on March 20 this year challenging the government's decision to neglect the recommendations of parliamentary sub-committee.
Deputy Attorney General ABM Altaf Hossain represented the government.
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