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SC judges set to get hiked salaries soon

Ashutosh Sarkar
The 50 percent increase in the monthly salary of the Supreme Court judges is set to come into effect shortly, as the gazette notification regarding this is expected within a few weeks.
Judges of both the Appellate and High Court divisions will get the increased remunerations as a special allowance from July 1 last year with a retrospective effect, law ministry officials told The Daily Star.
The monthly salary of the chief justice is now Tk 56,000, while an appellate judge receives Tk 53,100 and a High Court judge Tk 49,100. These amounts will double after the government issues the gazette following amendment of a relevant ordinance.
Apart from monthly salaries, the judges get
house rents and medical facilities from the government, according to sources in the SC.
The finance ministry on December 8 last year sent a letter to the law ministry, saying the monthly remunerations of the judges had been raised by 50 percent and asked the law ministry to take steps to amend the Supreme Court Judges (Remuneration and Privileges) Ordinance, 2010 to give effect to the increase, said the sources.
Requesting anonymity, a law ministry high official told The Daily Star on January 3 that the government would issue a gazette notification within a couple of weeks.
Earlier on June 15, 2011, the HC had ordered the government to implement the recommendations of a parliamentary subcommittee on raising the salaries and allowances of judges of the Appellate and High Court divisions.
Six months before that, the parliamentary subcommittee had recommended Tk 1.52 lakh as monthly salary for the chief justice, Tk 1.20 lakh for an appellate judge, andTk 1.08 lakh for an HC judge.
The June 15 order came after two SC lawyers filed a public interest writ petition
with the HC requesting the court to direct the government to implement the parliamentary subcommittee's recommendations.
Manzill Murshid, one of the lawyers, said the SC had stayed the HC verdict for some time following a government petition in late 2011, and also asked the government to file an appeal with it against the HC verdict on getting its
full text.
The government then filed an appeal against the HC verdict, he said, adding that during hearing on the appeal on December 12 last year, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told the SC that the government had taken steps to increase the salary of the judges.
On December 12 last year, the apex court fixed January 30 this year for
further hearing, and after that the government decided to increase the salary by 50 percent, said Manzill.
In April last year, the law ministry had sent a letter to the finance ministry proposing to give an additional 70 percent risk allowance to each of the nine appellate judges on their salaries, but the finance ministry rejected it, said the ministry sources.