Bangladesh’s former chief justice Khairul Haque detained in sedition, forgery cases

Dhaka, Jul 24 : Bangladesh’s former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque was detained here on Thursday in connection with three criminal cases, including a sedition charge, officials said.

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Haque, who served as the country’s 19th chief justice from 2010 to 2011, was known for presiding over landmark verdicts, including the 2011 ruling that declared Bangladesh’s nonpartisan caretaker government system unconstitutional.

Detective branch officers picked up the 81-year-old former judge from his residence in Dhanmondi area of the capital, Dhaka Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner Talebur Rahman told reporters.

“Haque is accused in three cases. Legal procedures are underway,” Rahman said, adding that the former chief justice is likely to be shown arrested in at least one of the cases before being produced in court.

The cases against him were filed by different lawyers in August 2024, shortly after the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government was ousted in a violent street movement led by the Students Against Discrimination (SAD) on August 5.

At the time, Haque was serving as the chairman of the Law Commission, a post he resigned from on August 13.

The first case, filed in Dhaka, accused him of fraud and forgery in allegedly altering the judgment annulling the 13th constitutional amendment related to the caretaker system.

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A week later an identical case was filed against him in river port town of Narayanganj, on the outskirts of the capital, over the same issue and in the same month, another case was filed in Dhaka by another lawyer over his alleged corrupt practices, illegal and fraudulent judgments.

Haque had authored the lead judgment that declared the caretaker government system in 2011 as “illegal,” calling the system contrary to the spirit of the constitution. (PTI)

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