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WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2025
Annulment of 13th amendment: Ex-CJ Khairul Haque sued over 'fraud, treason'

Bangladesh

TBS Report
26 August, 2024, 02:10 am
Last modified: 26 August, 2024, 11:24 pm

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Annulment of 13th amendment: Ex-CJ Khairul Haque sued over 'fraud, treason'

TBS Report
26 August, 2024, 02:10 am
Last modified: 26 August, 2024, 11:24 pm
 ABM Khairul Haque. File Photo: Collected
ABM Khairul Haque. File Photo: Collected

A case has been filed in Narayanganj against former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque over his alleged fraud and treason to alter the judgement annulling the 13th amendment of the Constitution regarding the caretaker government system.

BNP leader Abdul Bari Bhuiya filed the case with Fatullah Model Police Station today (26 August), Nure Azam Mia, officer-in-charge of the station, told TBS.

Earlier on 18 August, Khairul was sued in Dhaka over granting judgments that were false, corrupt and malicious in nature.

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Justice Khairul Haque was appointed as the head of the judiciary in September 2010.

A week before his retirement, he authored the lead verdict declaring the nonpartisan election-time government "illegal", ignoring strong pleas by eminent jurists such as Dr Kamal Hossain, Barrister Rafique-ul Huq, Barrister M Amir-ul Islam, former attorney and general Mahmudul Islam, all of whom strongly argued for retaining the interim government system for the sake of country's nascent democracy.

Even three of the judges of the Appellate Division Khairul Haque was leading did not consent to declaring the system "illegal", giving dissenting verdicts. Three other judges, however, agreed with him, ensuring a stalemate.

Justice Khairul Haque, then, cast the decisive vote. The non-partisan caretaker government was declared "illegal."

According to the case document, Khairul Haque omitted the part of the verdict that said two more elections could be held under a caretaker government.

The verdict gave Sheikh Hasina the biggest political weapon to cling to power. The end of the caretaker system meant an end to the mechanism of checks and balances which ensured free and fair elections in 1991, 1996, 2001 and 2008.

Ex-CJ ABM Khairul Haque / case filed

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