The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has upheld the ruling of the High Court by declaring the Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitution to be returned to the Parliament to take the power to remove judges.
A 7-judge appellate bench headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha gave the verdict on Monday morning.
The other judges of the bench are Abdul Otahhab Mia, Nazmun Ara Sultana, Saitad Mahmud Hossain, Mohammad Iman Ali, Hasan Fatz Siddiqui and Mirza Hossain Hadar.
Earlier, the Appellate Division kept the Awaiting (CAV) for Raat after the hearing on June 1.
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution was brought on September 17, 2014 to take the power to remove the judges to the Parliament. Later, on November 5 of the same year, 9 lawyers of the Supreme Court filed a writ petition in the High Court, and the High Court issued a ruling on November 9 of the same year.
After hearing the ruling, the High Court canceled the 16th Amendment based on the majority opinion on May 5 last year. The state party later appealed against the ruling and the Supreme Court upheld the appeal on Monday and the High Court has upheld the appeal.