<span style="color: #222222;">Bangladesh's first non-Muslim chief justice S K Sinha has sought political asylum in Canada, reported the newspaper Corriere Canadese published in Canada on Tuesday and other newspapers in Dhaka today. <br />'' <br />'' Justice Sinha had earlier sought asylum in the US in 2017 but he did not get any favourable response there.<br />'' <br />'' He had left the country in October 2017  for Australia a few months before his due date of retirement in January 2018. <br />'' <br />'' A day after his departure, the SC had issued a statement citing charges of money laundering, graft and moral turpitude against him. A Dhaka court has fixed August 28 for the submission of the probe report against Justice S.K.Sinha and eleven others.<br />'' <br />'' He later sent his resignation from abroad which was accepted by the President on November 14, 2017.<br />'' <br />'' In his autobiography published last year, Justice S.K. Sinha claimed that he stepped down as Chief Justice due to intimidation and threats. The allegations have been denied by the government.<br />'' <br />'' He had become the Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Bangladesh in January 2015. In September 2017 SC bench headed by him had given a judgement striking down the 16th constitutional amendment of Bangladesh which gave power to the parliament to remove justices of the Supreme Court.<br />'' <br />'' The judgment created tension between him and the government.  </span><br />'' <br />''