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Law Minister Shafique Ahmed on Saturday hoped that the existing divergence between the legislature and the judiciary would be resolved through a ruling by the Speaker in parliament.
“The Jatiya Sangsad Speaker is a very competent, prudent and scholar man. I feel that he will give a ruling to bring the issue involving the parliament and the Supreme Court to an end,” he said, adding that there is no need to refer this matter to the Supreme Judicial Council.
The minister made this comment while talking to reporters after inaugurating a workshop on “Children Act: Reforms of Children Justice System” at Brac Centre Inn.
The disagreement between the legislature and the judiciary surfaced after a High Court bench and some Awami League-led ruling alliance lawmakers traded remarks against each other on June 5.
The bench led by Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik on the day said the parliament Speaker had provoked people against the apex court by making comments on its directive on a piece of Supreme Court land, and that the act amounted to sedition.
The same day, some lawmakers, including Suranjit Sengupta, Tofail Ahmed, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim and Rashed Khan Menon, said in parliament that Justice Manik had violated the constitution by making “derogatory remarks” about the Speaker.
They also demanded that the president ask the chief justice to constitute a Supreme Judicial Council for removing Manik from office.
The law minister on Saturday told reporters that the executive, the legislature and the judiciary, which are the three supreme constitutional organs of the state, will discharge their functions within their jurisdictions with mutual respect.
Replying to a question over a lawyer’s request to the president to remove Justice Manik through the Supreme Judicial Council on different allegations, Shafique Ahmed said the lawyer’s request is unexpected since there is no logical reason behind this urge.
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