Govt to appoint 10 new HC judges next week
The government will appoint at least 10 new judges to the High Court next week, Law Minister Anisul Huq told The Daily Star yesterday.
He, however, did not disclose their names.
Shortage of judges at the Supreme Court and other courts across the country is getting worse and creating a huge backlog of cases due to delay in recruitment.
According to a latest SC study, 414,035 cases were pending at the HC as of September 30, 2016. It settled 8,449 cases from July 1, 2016 to September 30, 2016.
Earlier, the HC disposed of 37,753 cases from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015, and the number of pending cases stood at 394,225 then, said another SC study.
Considering the situation, Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha earlier advised the government to appoint eight additional judges to the HC. He also stressed the need for doubling the number of lower court judges through fresh appointments.
On December 24 last year, the chief justice told the National Judicial Conference, 2016 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka that he had to face difficulties in constituting HC benches as four of its judges were ill.
SK Sinha added seven of the HC judges would go on retirement in 2017 and then he would have to face more difficulties while forming the benches.
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