153 and to be Judged by an independent and impartial tribunal.’ On the question of impeachment of Judges, Mr. Islam has drawn our attention to the case of Justice Ramaswami (K.Veeraswami V. Union of India), the Sri Lankan experience, the Malaysian experience and drew our attention that in 30 jurisdictions (62.5%), a disciplinary Executive body and that is Legislature separate decides from both whether the Judges should be removed from office. The most popular model found in 20 jurisdictions (41.7%) is the ad-hoc tribunal, which is formed only when the need arises to consider whether a Judge should be removed. In 10 other jurisdictions (20.8%) the decision is entrusted to a permanent disciplinary council. All learned Amici other than Mr. Ajmalul Hossain have also accepted the submission of Mr. Islam. Dr. Kamal Hossain by referring to an article published in Bombay University Press submits that the American experience in impeaching a Judge has been

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