Law Minister Anisul Huq has said the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) might investigate the allegations brought against Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.
The minister made the statement while talking to the journalists at the secretariat on Sunday.
He said: “The Anti Corruption Commission might investigate the matter as all the allegations brought against the chief justice are under their jurisdiction.”
The law minister said: “The allegations raised against him needs to be investigated. If there is any truth to the allegations, cases will be filed against him and it will be investigated.
“The action against him will be decided based on the findings of the probe, following legal procedure.”
Replying to a query about how Sinha was allowed to leave Bangladesh, he said: “He [Sinha] is still the chief justice. We have to maintain the law while taking action against him.
“He said he will return. We have to believe whatever he had written in the application, so there is no scope to stop him from leaving.”
President Abdul Hamid listed the 11 major allegations, including money laundering, financial scam, corruptions and moral degradation, against the chief justice.
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 Honourable 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.
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
