High Court benches reconstituted
Justice Nizamul given no charge
Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain yesterday reconstituted the powers of 25 High Court (HC) benches without giving any judicial power to Justice Md Nizamul Huq, former chairman of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1.
SC Registrar AKM Shamsul Islam said Justice Nizamul was not assigned to conduct any bench for discharging judicial functions, as he (Nizamul) was now on leave.
The registrar could not say when and why Justice Nizamul took leave from the chief justice and when he will join the office.
He said the powers of 20 division benches and five single benches were reconstituted as the court reopened today after a two-week winter vacation.
Justice Nizamul, an HC judge, resigned as ICT-1 chief on December 11 amid controversy over his Skype conversations with an expatriate Bangladeshi legal expert about the tribunal matters.
He was appointed ICT-1 chairman on March 25, 2010 and returned to the office of the HC judge after his resignation from the tribunal.
On Sunday, pro-BNP-Jamaat lawyers urged the chief justice not to constitute any HC bench with Justice Nizamul and demanded his removal from the office of the HC judge.
Usually all HC judges, except the ones on leave, are tasked with judicial functions at different benches.
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