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JS body to talk judge appointments, president's amnesty

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A parliamentary body has decided to discuss the presidential amnesty granted to a person sentenced to death for murder, the appointment of 19 additional judges to the High Court and the judicial commission probe report on the August 21 grenade attack.
The parliamentary standing committee on the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs at a meeting on Thursday took the decision following demands raised by the committee members from the main opposition Awami League.
The committee chairman has already instructed the parliament secretariat to incorporate the issues in the agenda for its next meeting,
sources said.
President Iajuddin Ahmed last month granted amnesty to Mohiuddin Jintu, who was given the death penalty 23 years ago in a double murder case. Jintu claims himself as the founder president of the ruling BNP's Sweden chapter.
Interestingly, Jintu, an expatriate living in Sweden, surrendered at the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court in Dhaka on January 3 this year after evading arrest for more than two decades and got the amnesty within ten days.
Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Dhaka Motiur Rahman in 1982 sentenced Jintu to death for murdering businessmen Abdul Khaleq Rana and Firoz Al Mamun of Demra
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in the same year. The judgement was delivered in absentia.
The second issue to be discussed at the parliamentary body meeting is the appointment of 19 additional judges to the High Court that evoked controversy, sparking severe criticism from the lawyers and the opposition parties.
They termed the appointment 'political' and the Supreme Court Bar Association started a movement demanding cancellation of the appointment. One of the judges was withdrawn last year after he was accused of tampering with his LLB results.
The parliamentary body would also discuss the much talked about judicial inquiry commission report on the August 21grenade attack on an Awami League rally in the capital that killed 23 and injured over 200.
The government formed a one-member probe commission comprising a High Court judge who submitted a report pointing fingers to a neighbouring country for the attack. The government however did not make the report public.
Talking to The Daily Star yesterday, Committee Chairman Khandakar Mahbub Uddin Ahmed said, "We will discuss the issues as those were raised for discussions."
Awami League lawmaker and committee member Suranjit Sengupta on Thursday's meeting demanded discussions on the issues. "We want to have the explanations of the law ministry about the presidential amnesty to a convict of double murder."
"We also want to know the fate of the judicial inquiry commission report on August 21 grenade attack. The law minister earlier said the report will be made public, but he did not keep his word," said the opposition lawmaker.