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Report highlights gap in Supreme Court asset-disclosure rules

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A Daily Star report published on 3 October 2026 says Bangladesh has not introduced a binding mechanism for Supreme Court judges to publish asset declarations, despite a Judiciary Reform Commission recommendation.

Transparency International Bangladesh urged annual disclosure to strengthen accountability. Lawyers quoted in the report also raised privacy and security considerations. This is a debate about disclosure rules, not a finding of wrongdoing by individual judges.

Source: The Daily Star, 3 October 2026

File photo: Bangladesh Parliament, 2018. Context image, not this event. Gary Todd / Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Resized and displayed with a card crop.

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