Chief Justice Sinha off to Canada

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha left for Canada last night to see his ailing daughter.

From there, he would travel to Japan on September 17 to attend a conference of chief justices of Asia and the Pacific, Mohammad Anisur Rahman, personal secretary to the CJ, told The Daily Star last night.

The chief justice of Japan had invited Justice Sinha to attend the conference slated for September 18 to September 22, Anisur mentioned.

The chief justice will return home on September 23, he said, adding that Justice Md Abdul Wahhab Miah, a senior judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, will discharge the responsibility of chief justice during the absence of Justice Sinha.

The law ministry on September 6 issued a gazette notification saying that under Article 97 of the constitution the president has given the responsibility of the chief justice to Justice Wahhab in absence of Justice Sinha.