The Jatiya Sangsad has again lost the power to remove Supreme Court judges on grounds of incapacity or misconduct as the High Court yesterday scrapped the 16th constitutional amendment that restored the parliament's authority. The HC declared that the amendment is illegal, unconstitutional and against the principles of the separation of state powers and the independence of the judiciary.

High Court scraps 16th amendment to the constitution that empowered the parliament to impeach Supreme Court judges for incapacity or misconduct. Terming the amendment law as ‘a historical accident’, the court says it is against the principle of separation of powers and independence of the judiciary. Government says it will appeal against the ruling.

Jamaat-e-Islami has called a 24-hour countrywide hartal (shutdown) for Sunday after the Supreme Court upheld death penalty awarded to the party’s chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for his 1971 war crimes.

Supreme Court upholds death penalty awarded to war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Motiur Rahman Nizami for his wartime crimes, dismissing his review plea against the gallows.

SC will not rehear most of 168 cases, in which former chief justice Md Muzammel Hossain and former SC judge Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik wrote judgments and orders after their retirement.

All eyes are on the Supreme Court as it is set today to pass an order on the petition of war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami,

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hold the hearing tomorrow on the review petition filed by condemned war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami.

The Supreme Court today directed the concerned recruitment agencies to refund the money with 10 percent interest deposited by 74 Bangladeshi workers for going to war-torn country Libya in next three months.

She was gang raped by railway employees at the railway rest room in Kolkata while travelling in India on February 26, 1998. The incident triggered outrage. Maitree, a network of 42 women's groups and NGOs in Kolkata, moved to Kolkata High Court seeking compensation for the 27-year old Shefali Begum (name changed to protect her identity).

The Supreme Court will rehear 161 cases in which former SC judge Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik wrote

Supreme Court will rehear 161 cases in which former SC judge Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik issued judgements and orders after his retirement. The apex court will also rehear seven such cases dealt with by former chief justice Muzammel Hossain.

The constitution has two specific provisions that ask the parliament to make laws for the appointment of a judge to the Supreme Court and also for the removal of a sitting judge by the House.

The government’s move for enacting the Supreme Court Judges (Investigation) Act-2016 is not aimed at harassing any judge, Bangladesh Law Commission Chairman ABM Khairul Haque says.

The cabinet yesterday approved in principle a draft law specifying the procedures for investigation into allegations of misconduct or incapacity against a Supreme Court judge and the judge's removal by the Jatiya Sangsad.

Cabinet approves in principle the draft of a new law with provision of investigation against Supreme Court judges for allegation of misconduct or incapacity.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld its previous orders scrapping the High Court verdicts that acquitted eight people, mostly BNP

The Supreme Court has upheld a previous HC order that stayed the suspension of Gazipur City Corporation mayor MA Mannan over criminal charges.

The Supreme Court sentences an activist of a banned militant outfit to imprisonment until death in two cases filed over bomb attack at a Laxmipur court in 2005.

The Supreme Court today cancels the High Court order that had granted bail to BNP leader Mahtab Uddin Minar in Feni’s Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque murder case.

The Supreme Court upholds 13 years’ jail for Relief and Disaster Management Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya.