2 ministers appear before SC

Food Minister Qamrul Islam and Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq appeared before the Supreme Court on Sunday morning following an earlier order of the court.

 

They appeared in the court room around 9 am for their explanations over controversial comments about Chief Justice SK Sinha, reports the UNB.

 

Earlier on March 15 the Supreme Court ordered the two ministers to appear before it on March 20 (Today).

 

Meanwhile, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq appeared before the court on that day.

 

On March 14, ministers Qamrul Islam and Mozammel Huq offered unconditional apology to the court for their remarks.

 

They begged the pardon in separate applications submitted to the SC through their lawyers.

 

Qamrul also filed a petition with the SC seeking time to appear before it as he was in Malaysia to attend a conference.

 

Earlier on March 8, the Supreme Court summoned the two ministers to appear before it on March 15 for their reactions to reported remarks of Chief Justice SK Sinha about prosecution as regards the trial of Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali in a war crimes case.

 

The court then ordered them to explain their comments before it by March 14.

 

Ministers Qamrul Islam and Mozammel Huq demanded resignation of the Chief Justice for his reported remarks that “the prosecution is doing politics with the trial of condemned war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali”.

 

The two ministers made the demands at a round table discussion organised by Ekatorrer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee in the city on March 5.

 

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam on March 6 urged all to exercise restraint in making comments on such issues as those are ‘unconstitutional’.

 

During the hearing of arguments on Mir Quasem Ali’s appeal petition on February 23, the Chief Justice purportedly expressed dissatisfaction over the activities of the prosecution and the investigation agency.