Senior lawyer Advocate Muhammad Shishir Monir has accused the government of committing serious contempt of court by dissolving the Supreme Court Secretariat and transferring its officials. He made the remarks on Wednesday while speaking to journalists in front of the Supreme Court’s annex building. Monir stated that the Secretariat was established under the directive of the highest court and that the matter remains under judicial consideration. He announced plans to file a contempt petition against those responsible on the following day.

The controversy follows a government order issued on Tuesday that dissolved the Supreme Court Secretariat and reassigned its senior secretary and 15 other officials to the Ministry of Law. The order, issued by the Law and Justice Division under presidential authority, stated that the officials were attached to the ministry until further notice. The Secretariat had been inaugurated on December 11, 2025, by then Chief Justice Dr. Syed Refaat Ahmed in the Supreme Court’s Administrative Building-4, in the presence of interim government legal adviser Dr. Asif Nazrul.