HC revokes recruitment rules for lower judiciary

The High Court (HC) revoked on Sunday the two rules incorporating a representative from the Law Ministry over the committee for recruiting its subordinate court staff terming those unconstitutional, reports UNB.

After hearing from both sides on the matter, an HC division bench comprising Justice Naima Haider and Justice M Jahangir Hossain delivered the judgment, discharging its rule in this connection.

On November 1, 2010, the government through a gazette notification published the impugned two rules amending the recruitment of staff to the courts of District Judges, its subordinate courts and Divisional Special Judges Courts and courts of Judicial Magistracy and Metropolitan Magistracy.

The two lawyers-Asaduzzzman Sidiquee and Sarwar Ahad Chowdhury-filed the writ petition in the form of public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the validity of the amendments over the lower court staff recruitment.

Emerging from the court, advocate Manzill Murshid, the counsel for the PIL writ petitioners, told reporters that the HC revoked the amended rules since those appear contradictory to the independence of the judiciary in the light of the historic judgment on Mazder Hossain case ensuring the entire lower courts under the supervision and control of the Supreme Court.