16th Amendment: Pro-AL lawyers to stage demo

Staff Correspondent:  Bangabandhu Awami Ainjibi Parishad will hold protest rallies across the country on August 13, 16 and 17 against a Supreme Court verdict that declared the 16th amendment illegal.

The decision came from a press briefing organised by the Parishad at its Dhanmondi office on Saturday morning.

“A certain quarter is trying to create controversy over the judiciary after the verdict,” the forum's Member Secretary Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh said while reading out a statement.
It also called the court to expunge part of its observations in the verdict, which they find 'offensive, unconstitutional, undemocratic and irrelevant.'

Bar Council Vice Chairman Abdul Baset Mazumder, forum's Convener Yousuf Hossain Humayun, Food Minister Advocate Qamrul Islam and Awami League's Legal Affairs Secretary SM Rezaul Karim were present at the press briefing.

The 16th Amendment to the Constitution had restored parliament’s powers to impeach higher court justices. Last year, the High Court declared the amendment ‘illegal’ and the decision was upheld on Jul 3 by the Appellate Division.




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