Dhaka-The President has decided that there is no need for issuing any gazette notification on the drafts of the disciplinary and conduct rules for judicial officers and Bangladesh judicial service rules.The Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry issued a circular on Sunday in this regard.
The circular says, “The President has decided that there’s no need for issuing any gazette notification on the drafts of the Disciplinary Rules for the Judicial Officers, Judicial Officers Conduct Rules and the Bangladesh Judicial Service Rules-2007 after amendments as proposed by the Supreme Court.”
On December 8, the Supreme Court summoned law and justice division secretary Abu Saleh Sk Md Zahirul Haque and legislative and parliamentary affairs division secretary Mohammad Shahidul Haque of the Law Ministry to appear before it on Monday (Dec 12) to explain the failure to publish notification in this regard.
On November 24, the Supreme Court gave the government one week to publish gazette notification on the disciplinary rules for the judicial officers.
On December 2, 1999, the Supreme Court in the Masdar Hossain case issued a seven-point directive, including formulating separate disciplinary rules for the lower court judges.
However, the rules are yet to be formulated.
On May 7 last year, the Law Ministry sent the draft of the rules to the Supreme Court which is similar to the Government Servants (Discipline and Appeal) Rules 1985.
