AG urges all not to comment on CJ

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam today urged all not to make any comment on Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha to keep judiciary above controversy.

The attorney general came up with the remarks while talking to reporters at his office when he was asked for his reaction over two ministers’ comments on the chief justice regarding hearing of war criminal Mir Qasem Ali’s appeal challenging his death penalty.

Addressing a discussion in the capital yesterday, Food Minister Qamrul Islam said that the appeal in Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali's case should be reheard by a reconstituted Appellate Division bench of the Supreme Court, keeping the chief justice out of it.

Qamrul, who was state minister for law when the tribunal was formed in 2010, told the discussion that the chief justice in an open court made some observations that raised questions about the prosecutors and investigators' role in the trial.

On the other hand, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque also made some observations during yesterday’s programme.

Saying that such comments are unconstitutional, Mahbubey Alam today termed the two ministers’ comments unexpected.

He requested all to wait for the apex court’s verdict on war criminal Mir Qasem Ali’s appeal on March 8.