DHAKA: The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on Monday (July 03) on the appeal filed by the government against a High Court judgment that declared the 16th amendment to the Constitution illegal.

A seven-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha, will deliver the verdict.

Earlier on June 02, the SC bench finished hearing the appeal and kept the case on CAV (pending for verdict any day).

The case came in the cause list of the Supreme Court published on Sunday (July 02). In the cause list, it was seen that the number of the case in No.1 for Monday’s list.

The 16th amendment had empowered Parliament to dismiss Supreme Court judges.

The “Constitution (16th Amendment) Bill-2014” was passed in the Parliament on September 17 in 2014.

Two months later, nine Supreme Court lawyers filed a writ petition with the High Court to have the amendment declared illegal and unconstitutional.

Following their petition, the High Court on May 5 in 2016 declared the amendment illegal. Later, the government challenged the verdict through an appeal filed on January 4 this year.

BDST: 1730 HRS, JULY 02, 2017
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