Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on Friday evening claimed that he was not physically ill, completely contradicting a government narrative that he took a month-long leave on grounds of ill health. He said he was quite embarrassed about how a specific political quarter, including some ministers and the prime minister herself, criticised him over one of his rulings. Justice Sinha was referring to the full verdict in the 16th Amendment to the Constitution case. My assumption is that the government has been misled [on the 16th Amendment verdict],” Sinha told reporters. There is no precedence of an acting chief justice or the government interfering in a sitting chief justice’s administration.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 13, 2017 17:15 UTC