Dhaka, July 3 -- BNP Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed on Thursday said the fascists and their allies must be ousted from the judiciary first in a bid to ensure the actual independence of the judiciary in the country.

"To make judicial independence truly effective, fascists must be ousted from the lower and upper judiciary," he told reporters in the afternoon after the ninth day of the second round of reform dialogue at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital.

Salahuddin alleged that certain collaborators of fascist forces are still in the lower judiciary, who unlawfully punished political activists, journalists and people from all classes and professions through night court sessions. "We should not protect these fascists (j...