Ex-CEC Huda summoned
The High Court yesterday asked former chief election commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda to appear before it on June 3 to explain his “derogatory” comments about the judiciary.
"All constitutional bodies, including the Election Commission and Public Service Commission, as well as the judiciary have been politicised, and incompetent people are getting important posts there," Huda said at a seminar on political parties and democracy in Bangladesh organised by the Centre for Policy Dialogue in the capital.
The HC bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice ABM Altaf Hossain also issued a contempt of court rule on him.
In the suo moto rule, it asked Huda, who had led the EC in holding a widely acceptable national election in December 2008, to explain in two weeks why contempt of court proceedings should not begin against him for “maligning the dignity and honour of the judiciary”.
The home secretary, inspector general of police, commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, deputy commissioner of Dhaka and officer-in charge of Gulshan Police Station have also been made respondents to the rule.
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