A court here today placed former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque on a seven-day remand in a case filed over manipulating the Supreme Court verdict on the caretaker government system.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sanaullah passed the order as police produced Khairul before the court with a 10-day remand prayer in the case, sub-inspector Md Zinnat told BSS.
The case was filed with Shahbagh Police Station under Sections 219 and 466 of the Penal Code.
According to the Section 219, whoever, being a public servant, corruptly or maliciously makes or pronounces in any stage of a judicial proceeding, any report, order, verdict or decision which he knows to be contrary to law, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years or with fine or with both.
