Official facing contempt charge becomes judge
Staff Correspondent
Senior Assistant Secretary in the law ministry Mohammad Harunur Rashid, who has been facing contempt charge for distorting the High Court directive on the separation of judiciary since November 2004, has become joint district judge at the Dhaka District Court.Legal experts termed the promotion undesirable. "There is no legal limitation that an officer facing contempt charge cannot be promoted to another post. But it is an undesirable and embarrassing situation," Justice Gholam Rabbani, former judge of the Supreme Court Appellate Division, told The Daily Star yesterday. The Supreme Court on November 29, 2004 issued the contempt rule upon nine officials including Harunur Rashid.
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