Justice Wahhab acting CJ during Sinha’s leave

Justice Md Abdul Wahhab Miah, a senior judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, will discharge the responsibility of chief justice during the absence of Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.

Chief Justice Sinha went on a one-month leave from Monday on health grounds.

Confirming the matter, Law Minister Advocate Anisul Huq said that a gazette notification has been issued in this regard.

Surendra Kumar Sinha’s tenure as the chief justice will come to end on January 31, 2018.

The first chief justice from religious minority group faced huge criticism from the leaders and Members of Parliament of the ruling party Awami League following the apex court’s verdict scarping the 16th constitutional amendment which empowered parliament to remove or impeach justices of the Supreme Court.

Ruling party men called for Sinha to step down from his position as he in his opinion brought an example of Pakistan’s Supreme Court which disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding public office on the Panama Papers case.