President of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Abdul Matin Khasru has said legal action will be taken against Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha if the allegations brought against him are found to be true in investigation.
He made the statement while addressing a programme in Comilla on Saturday.
He said: “In a letter, he [chief justice] pleaded to the president seeking leave because of medical issues and now he has verbally said he is not sick.
“Which statement should we believe?”
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Khasru said: “While addressing some programmes, the chief justice said that the judiciary is independent and in some other programmes he said there is no independence of the judiciary.
“He could stick to his words. I want him to get well soon, return to the country and start discharging his duties.”
President Abdul Hamid listed the 11 major allegations, including money laundering, financial scam, corruptions and moral degradation, against the chief justice.
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A notice to this effect, signed by Registrar General of Supreme Court Syed Aminul Islam, titled “Statement of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh regarding the written statement given by Honorable Chief Justice SK Sinha before he went abroad on leave,” was published on the Supreme Court’s website on Saturday.
The statement said that the written statement that Sinha supplied to journalists on Friday night before his departure was confusing and the Supreme Court had issued this statement to clarify the matter.
The chief justice left for Australia on Friday night, issuing a statement to the press that he was not ill and had been embarrassed by the prime minister’s criticism against him.
This article was first published on Bangla Tribune
Thursday, June 04, 2026
