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SC Bar asks 19 new addl judges to stand down

Lawyers boycott courts across country

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
The Supreme Court Bar Association yesterday asked the 19 newly appointed additional judges of the High Court (HC) to stand down voluntarily and protested the chief justice's swearing them into office ignoring their reservations about the fresh appointees.
The lawyers also boycotted both divisions of the Supreme Court yesterday in line with a decision of Sammilita Ainjibi Samannay Parishad, an association of lawyers, protesting the appointment of judges on what it said were political grounds. The lawyers also boycotted courts across the country.
The Bar at an emergency general meeting unanimously adopted a resolution which also asked Chief Justice Syed JR Mudassir Husain not to give the controversial appointees bench.
The appointment of 19 additional judges has triggered resentment among lawyers who described the recruitment as the worst-case example of political motives. The Bar at an emergency requisition meeting on Monday resolved that the judges whom the lawyers called unqualified should not be addressed as "My Lord" which should be replaced by a new term in consultation with the association.
Their appointment breached the principles of integrity, honesty and professional efficiency, the Bar alleged in yesterday's resolution, adding the government wants to hold sway over the judiciary, handpicking persons, including party cadres, for the court.
It observed when protests are raging across the country after the grenade attack on an Awami League (AL) rally and the attempt to assassinate Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina on Saturday that left 20 including AL's Women's
Affairs Secretary Ivy Rahman killed and 300 AL leaders and activists wounded, the government had the judges appointed and sworn into office in an 'unprecedented hurry'.
The meeting also condemned the killing of Ivy Rahman.
The boycotting lawyers in procession went to courts that sat at 2:00pm and urged the judges to adjourn proceedings. Some judges obliged the lawyers and got down from the bench. The agitating lawyers also bang the doors and windows of some judges' chambers.
The fresh appointees include a daughter and nephews of a former minister and BNP lawmakers, while another was a leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir, an Islamic student organisation patronised by coalition partner Jamaat-e-Islami.
Another new judge, defeated in the last election to the Supreme Court Bar Association, contested it on the BNP slate. Besides, some leaders of ruling BNP's lawyers' wing, the Jatiyatabadi Lawyers' Forum, are among the new appointees.
The BNP-led coalition government appointed the 19 in a fourth recruitment, taking the number of judges appointed to the High Court to 45 since 2002.