It ordered district judges on Tuesday to submit lists of such cases to the Supreme Court registrar general within 30 days. The registrar general will forward the lists to the apex court’s committee to supervise lower courts. The number of cases pending disposal in the Supreme Court and subordinate courts in Bangladesh is around 3.57 million, Law Minister Anisul Huq told parliament on Monday. The cases include 20,442 in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, 516,652 in the High Court division, and over 3 million in the lower courts. As the trial court rejected his petition for bail, he moved the High Court.

Source: bd News24 February 26, 2019 16:52 UTC