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Judges' code of conduct: Govt gets more time for gazette

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Published: 06:11, 6 August 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Judges' code of conduct: Govt gets more time for gazette

Staff Correspondent: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC), on Sunday extended a fresh two-week timeframe for the government to publish a gazette notification on the disciplinary and conduct rules for lower court judges.

A six-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order following a petition seeking time.

At the same time, the chief justice again asked the persons concerned to sit for a meeting to solve the issue.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam in favour of the State filed the petition seeking four weeks for issuing the gazette notification.

A direction was also made to sit for a meeting to reach a solution during hearing on the issue on July 30.

Earlier on July 27, the law minister submitted a draft copy of the gazette notification on the disciplinary and conduct rules for lower court judges to Chief Justice (CJ) Surendra Kumar Sinha.

Rejecting the draft of the gazette notification on the disciplinary and conduct rules for lower court judges on July 30, the chief justice told the attorney general that a meeting can be held over the issue to find out a solution.

The chief justice asked all the Appellate Division bench judges, law minister, attorney general and any expert in this regard to attend the meeting.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on July 23 extended one week timeframe for the government to publish a gazette notification on the disciplinary and conduct rules for lower court judges and fixed next Sunday for the order on the issue.

Earlier, the government sought time in several phases to publish a gazette notification in this regard.

On November 7 last year, the Supreme Court ordered the government to issue a gazette notification on the disciplinary and conduct rules for lower court judges by 24 November.

On December 2 in 1999, the Supreme Court in the Masdar Hossain case issued a 12-point directive, including formulating separate disciplinary rules for the lower court judges.

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