Bangladesh high court clips absolute power of president

The high court here has struck down a provision in a newly enacted ordinance, clipping the absolute powers of the country's president in the appointment of higher court judges, justice ministry officials said Friday.A three-member bench scrapped section 9(4) of the newly declared ordinance that vests absolute powers in the ... ...of state in the matter of appointing judges of the higher judiciary.One of the division judges also called the ordinance illegal and unconstitutional.Court petitioner Idrisur Rahman said that the issue had to be finally resolved by the Supreme Court as it involved interpretations of the constitution.

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