The Brickbats Around The Chief Justice

It is a sad situation. It does not become a democracy. And it certainly does wrong to our heritage as a nation. Things ought not to have come to this pass.

- Syed Badrul Ahsan

Justice Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik has just launched a broadside against Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha. He thus joins that disturbingly growing band of people who have seemingly decided that the Chief Justice has committed a grievous wrong, that he must now pay the price. In his assault on the Chief Justice, Justice Manik, who is no more part of the judiciary, having gone into retirement, has questioned whether Justice Sinha himself wrote, in the space of 25 days, all those 400 pages of observations relating to the Appellate Division’s verdict on the 16th amendment to the Constitution. He perhaps thinks it is humanly impossible for an individual to write that long a manuscript in that brief a period.