SC asks Qamrul and Mozammel for fresh explanation

The Supreme Court on Sunday adjourned the hearing until March 27 on the contempt rule against two ministers for their controversial comments about Chief Justice SK Sinha in connection with the war crimes case against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali.

A seven -member bench of the Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice SK Sinha, fixed the fresh date after the hearing on a court order which asked Food Minister Qamrul Islam and Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq to appear before it on the day with their explanations.

Earlier Food Minister Qamrul Islam and Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque demanded resignation of the Chief Justice for his reported remarks that ‘the prosecution is doing politics with the trial of condemned war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali.’

The two ministers made the demand at a roundtable discussion organised by Ekatorrer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee in the city on 5 March.