HC judge's skepticism about wisdom of MPs

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State Minister for Law Advocate Quamrul Islam Sunday flayed a sitting High Court (HC) judge for his critical comments about the wisdom of the lawmakers and threatened that he would be facing the music in the upcoming parliament session, reports UNB.
Briefing journalists at his secretariat office, the state minister said Justice Nazrul Islam Chowdhury at a seminar in the capital Saturday made "very indecent and acrimonious remarks both by words of mouth and body language undermining the wisdom of the lawmakers".
"Clerks prepare the law and the lawmakers pass it in parliament like duffers by thumping desktops", Quam-rul quoted the Justice as saying.
During the previous Awami League regime (1996-2001), advocate Nazrul Islam Chowdhury was elevated to the High Court bench from the bar on July 3, 2001 on political considerations.
Justice Nazrul became highly controversial through delivering the judgment (August 28 last year) in the historic jail killings case that had exonerated quartet lifer army men and confirmed the death sentences against one of the three rankers who were on the run.
Quamrul said, "As a Member of Parliament, I am aggrieved with his observations."
He said, "Justice Nazrul Islam Chowdhury has crossed his limit… a sitting justice cannot make such snide remarks about the elected representatives of the people."
The state minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs further said, "If any law made by the lawmakers is found flawed during judicial scrutiny, the judges through their ruling can criticise it, but they do not have the jurisdiction to vilify the lawmakers here and there."
He said that the lawmakers would invoke the matter before the Supreme Judicial Council for remedy as the privilege of the parliament had also been tarnished.