The Supreme Judicial Council headed by the chief justice has not found any proof of allegations of misconduct against Justice Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan, a judge of the High Court, law ministry sources said yesterday.
The allegations were raised against Mizanur after he distributed copies of a report, published in the daily Inqilab on February 17, among the judges of the High Court and the Supreme Court.
The report termed slain Ahmed Rajib Haidar, an activist of Gonojagoron Moncho, a murtad (deviated from Islam) citing his alleged blog posts.
The Moncho was set up to demand the highest punishment for all war criminals during the Liberation War.
Rajib was hacked to death near his Palash Nagar home in the capital's Pallabi on February 15.
Yesterday, the three-member judicial council sent a short report to the law ministry to forward it to the president, a high official of the law ministry told The Daily Star.
The ministry will also send the report to the Prime Minister's Office to forward it to the Bangabhaban, he said.
The official, however, declined to give details of the report.
Contacted, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed said he did not get any report from the judicial council although he was in office till 3:00pm yesterday.
Supreme Court Registrar AKM Shamsul Islam, however, said his office sent the report to the law secretary by an official messenger at around noon yesterday.
On February 25, the then president Zillur Rahman ordered Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain to constitute the Supreme Judicial Council to investigate the allegations against Justice Mizanur.

The two other members of the council are Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and Justice MA Wahhab Miah, judges of the SC.

On February 28, the council issued a notice asking Mizanur to explain the allegations against him.
He responded to the notice on March 14, according to SC sources.
This is the second such council to probe allegations against an HC judge.
Mizanur was appointed additional HC judge on July 29, 2002, and his job was confirmed after two years during the rule of the BNP-led alliance.
In 2004, HC additional judge Syed Shahidur Rahman was removed from office on the basis of the first ever judicial council's probe into a judge's misconduct, and its recommendations.
Shahidur was charged with taking Tk 50,000 in bribe to fix bail for an accused in a women repression case.