Arafat Hasan: While talking to reporters at his office at the Supreme Court, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said that former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has damaged the image of the country’s judiciary with the “adverse comments” he made about the judges of the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division in his book.
The comments made by the former CJ are very much unacceptable, he said, according to a report published by The Daily Star yesterday.
The Attorney General said Justice Sinha has not made it clear why his colleagues in the Appellate Division had refused to sit in the same bench with him for performing judicial functions.
“If the reasons behind the other judges’ refusal to sit in the same bench with Justice SK Sinha are disclosed, foul smell will spread and the image of the judiciary will be tarnished even more,” he alleged, adding, “I don’t know whether such incident has taken place in any other country in the world.”
The reaction came in the aftermath of the publishing of Justice SK Sinha’s autobiography, which came out on September 16. In it, the former Chief Justice, currently in the US, claimed that he stepped down in the face of “intimidation and threats”. Lalitmohan-Dhanabati Memorial Foundation holds the copyright of Justice Sinha’s book titled “A Broken Dream: Rule of Law, Human Rights and Democracy”.