The Appellate Division has announced that it will hear the review petition regarding its verdict that declared the 16th amendment to the constitution, which gave the power to parliament to remove judges, as illegal.
The hearing on the review petition will be held in the last week of October.
A three-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed made the announcement on Thursday.
Writ petitioner Advocate Manzill Murshid presented the petition before the court for hearing.
The 16th amendment, made on September 17 in 2014, had abolished the chief justice led Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) and restored parliament's power to remove the judges. But some Supreme Court lawyers challenged the decision November 5, 2014.
The High Court issued a rule on the amendment on November 9, 2014. Later, the HC declared the amendment illegal on the basis of the view of the majority followed by a hearing on May 5, 2016.
The government appealed against the HC verdict in 2017.
An Appellate Division full bench led by the former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha heard the appeal, and delivered the verdict on July 3, 2017, rejecting the appeal and upholding the HC verdict and released the full text of the verdict on August 1 in 2017.
The state made a review application against that judgment.
