No need for gazette notification

The president has decided that there is no need for issuing a gazette notification on the disciplinary and conduct rules for lower court judges.

Law ministry yesterday issued a notification about the president's decision.

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The president has decided that there is no need for publishing the draft proposed by the Supreme Court for the amendment of a separate conduct rules and discipline rules for the judicial officials and Bangladesh Judicial Service (service making, appointment to the service post, dismissal, suspension and removal) Rules, 2007 in the Bangladesh gazette, the law ministry notification signed by its senior assistant secretary Mostaque Ahamed read.      

Earlier, the Supreme Court had ordered the law ministry several times to finalise the rules determining the disciplinary and conduct rules for the lower court judges as per its directives and issue a gazette notification in this regard.

On December 6, the Appellate Division of the SC also ordered two secretaries of the law ministry -- Law and Justice Division Secretary ASSM Zahirul Haque and Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Secretary Mohammad Shahidul Haque -- to appear before it today and explain the non-compliance of its order about framing the rules and issuing the gazette notification.

The eight-member full bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha had passed the order.

On December 1, the Appellate Division gave seven days' time to the ministry to finalise the rules and asked it to submit the gazette notification on the rules before the court on December 8.

But the same day Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, on behalf of the ministry, asked the apex court for further two weeks' time. He said the ministry had finalised the rules and its summery had been sent to the president for approval after the prime minister signed it.