Dhaka: Noting that the judiciary came forward in every critical moment of the state, Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on Monday said it will continue to intervene whenever there is any injustice.

‘The judiciary had intervened whenever there was any injustice. It’ll never backtrack from this,’ he said while inaugurating a voluntary blood donation programme on the occasion of the National Mourning Day on the Supreme Court premises.

The event was organised as part of the programmes taken by the judiciary for the first time marking the National Mourning Day.

The chief justice said they delivered verdicts in the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assassination and the jail killing cases. ‘We’ve also scrapped the 8th constitutional amendment which broke the judiciary apart. We’ve also cancelled the 5th and 13th amendments to the constitution,’ he said.

SK Sinha, however, did not make any comment on the annulment to the 16th amendment to the constitution as it is still sub-judiced.

Mentioning that after the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members, the then government issued the Indemnity Ordinance in order to give immunity from legal action to the killers, he said the senior judges had scrapped the black law.

SK Sinha also alleged that many used to refuse to recognise the judiciary as one of the three organs of the state, saying they had never closed this.

In the event, many, including four High Court Division judges, donated blood. Later, the chief justice planted trees.