By Ranga Suriya in Daily Mirror, Nov 22, 2023Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that the three Rajapaksa brothers and a cabal of officials were responsible for the economic crisis, delivering an unprecedented judgement that could be the precursor to Sri Lanka’s long march for justice. The Court ruled by the majority judgment that the Rajapaksa brothers and five of their acolytes who were handpicked to the top government positions “had demonstrably contributed to the…
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By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 22, 2023The writer covers parliamentary affairs and human rights for The Kathmandu Post.The Judicial Council has finally nominated justices for six of the seven long-vacant positions at the Supreme Court. A meeting of the council led by Chief Justice Bishowambhar Prasad Shrestha on Tuesday picked four candidates from among high court career judges and two practising lawyers. The council has ditched the hierarchical norm in nominating high…
AFP report, Nov 20, 2023DHAKA: Bangladesh’s highest court on Sunday upheld a ban on the country’s largest Islamist party taking part in polls, lawyers said, as political tensions worsen ahead of key January elections. Jamaat-i-Islami, a major opposition party with millions of supporters, was banned from contesting polls in 2013 after high court judges ruled its charter violated the secular constitution of the Muslim-majority nation of 170 million people. Jamaat was also barred from participating…
by Terence J Sigamony in Business Recorder, Nov 19, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has directed the special court, established under Official Secrets Act, 1923, to conclude the trial of the leaking cipher within four weeks IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq, on Saturday, released detailed judgment on the application of former foreign minister and Vice-Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Shah Mahmood Qureshi, which he turned down on November 15. The IHC said undoubtedly, bail…
by FM Mizanur Rahaman in The Daily Star in Nov 9, 2023When “Senuwara Begum” of Cox’s Bazar surrendered to a court and eventually landed in prison in connection with a narcotics case, there was no reason for suspicion. However, when her fingerprints were taken in jail last month so that those could be matched with the records in the NID server, Senuwara turned out to be Monira Begum of Teknaf. A probe found that Monira…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 08, 2023In his first meeting with journalists after being appointed the chief justice in the last week of August, Bishwombhar Prasad Shrestha had claimed that the vacant positions of judges in the Supreme Court and other courts would soon be filled. He had said it was painful to see around half of the Supreme Court benches empty despite a huge workload at the court. However, close to…
report in The Express Tribune, Oct 16, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) would announce its reserved ruling on Monday (today) on a petition of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan against the hearing of the cypher case inside jail premises, according to the cause list issued by the court registrar on Sunday. As per the cause list, Chief Justice Aamer Farooq would also hear Imran’s post-arrest bail application. The court had also issued…
by Mohammad Jamil Khan in The Daily Star, Oct 15, 2023On November 20 last year, two death row convict militants, Abu Siddiq Sohel and Moinul Hasan Shamim, escaped from a Dhaka court with help from their associates. While being taken to prison, the convicts assaulted their police escort, untied themselves from shackles and fled on a motorcycle, never to be seen again. Almost a year has passed since that day, but police are yet to…
by Malik Asad in Dawn, Sept 21st, 2023ISLAMABAD: The judicial magistrate of Islamabad shelved the murder case of journalist Arshad Sharif on Wednesday since no prosecution witness had attended the trial proceedings so far. Muhammad Abbas Shah, a civil judge-cum-judicial magistrate, had issued non-bailable arrest warrants to all prosecution witnesses, including the wife of Arshad Sharif, for not appearing before the court to record their statements in the murder case. The judge had directed the…
Report in Dawn, Sept 15th, 2023ISLAMABAD: In a significant setback for the PTI, the Supreme Court on Thursday returned its petition seeking nationwide elections in the country within 90 days with objections. The petition also requested the apex court to order the ECP to issue a schedule accordingly, besides the governors of all four provinces be directed to announce the date of elections within 90 days of the dissolution of the respective assemblies, or in…
report in The News,Sept 05, 2023LAHORE: Former prime minister Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday seeking to preempt her possible arrest and details of all the cases including undisclosed FIRs registered against her. Filed through Advocate Mushtaq Ahmad Mohal, her petition contended that after ‘illegal’ removal of her husband from the office of the prime minister, the political victimisation against her, her husband and other…