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Bdnews24.com, Dhaka

The government will install four more special judge's courts to quicken the trials of high-profile graft suspects, officials have said.

The planned courts will start working next week and the judges for the courts have also been finalised, the officials at the Law Ministry said.

Lawyers for the Anticorruption Commission have indicated that cases involving two former prime ministers, Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina, could be tried in the new courts.

The officials with the Law Ministry's justice department said special judge of Jamalpur Tanjina Ismail, judge of Chittagong administrative tribunal AKM Arifur Rahman, divisional special judge of Barisal Khandakar Kamaluzzaman and Public Safety Act tribunal judge in Khulna AKM Siarjul Islam will take charge of the new courts.

bdnews24.com correspondents in those districts have said that the judges had been given farewell.

Supreme Court registrar Iktedar Ahmed confirmed to bdnews24.com that chief justice M Ruhul Amin had already approved the new appointments.

"The Law Ministry will issue a circular on the matter," he said.

On assuming power in mid-January, the interim government installed five special judges' courts on the Jatiya Sangsad premises in May to try the high-profile graft suspects that include politicians, former or incumbent bureaucrats and businessmen.