An appeal has been filed in the Appellate Division regarding the High Court’s ruling, which directed the establishment of an independent and separate Supreme Court Secretariat within three months.
Badiul Alam Majumder, secretary of Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (SUJAN), filed the appeal on Monday, seeking to retain the current operations of the Supreme Court Secretariat in light of the High Court’s directive.
The ruling, issued on 2 September of last year, followed a writ petition filed by seven lawyers advocating for the creation of a distinct Secretariat for the Supreme Court.
The full judgment, spanning 185 pages, was made public on 7 April via the Supreme Court’s website.
In response to the High Court’s decision, the interim government issued the “Supreme Court Secretariat Ordinance, 2025” on 30 November, and the Supreme Court Secretariat was inaugurated on 11 December.
Despite opposition from political parties, the “Supreme Court Secretariat (Abolition) Bill” was passed in Parliament on 9 April.
In response, seven lawyers filed a writ petition on 19 April, challenging the legality of the newly passed “Supreme Court Secretariat (Abolition) Act, 2026.”
The petition seeks to have the Act declared unconstitutional, and if the court agrees, the petitioners have asked for a stay on the Secretariat’s operations, which commenced on 11 December last year, until the case is resolved.
The petition names two secretaries from the Ministry of Law as respondents in the case.
Badiul Alam Majumder’s appeal calls for the continuation of the Supreme Court Secretariat’s operations until the case is resolved in the Appellate Division.
