Bangladesh: Report on constitution amendment bill placed

<p>The parliamentary standing committee report on the much-talked-about "The Constitution (Sixteenth Amendment) Bill, 2014" has been placed in the Jatiya Sangsad.</p><p>Committee Chairman Suranjit Sengupta placed the report before the House on Sunday with a proposal to pass it in an amended form, reports BSS.</p><p>On September 7, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Haque placed the bill in the parliament with a proposal for amending different sections of Article 96 of the constitution regarding impeachment of the Supreme Court judges.</p><p>In the report, significant changes have been made in the preamble of the bill with recommendations to replace sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the Article 96 of the constitution by sections 2, 3 and 4.</p>
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