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SC Bar waves black flags against Faizee

Staff Correspondent
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) yesterday staged a sit-in and black flag demonstrations along the chief justice's (CJ) path to the Supreme Court Building protesting Judge Faisal Mahmud Faizee's continuing judicial work.
More than 50 lawyers took part in the demonstrations that started at 9:00am and went on for an hour at the main entrance to the Supreme Court. SCBA President Mahbubey Alam addressed the lawyers' gathering. Alleging that the CJ is ignoring the SCBA agitation, he said, "The chief justice has gone deaf and dumb."
Citing Dr Badruddoza Chowdhury's removal from the presidency, Alam said the president can be removed and so can be the parliament speaker through impeachment.
"Whereas, the chief justice cannot be removed without the consent of supreme judicial council," he said adding, "When such is the case, we wonder on whose advice and why [CJ] is he still allowing Faizee to sit on the bench?"
"We are still patient. We hope the chief justice will soon open his ears and eyes. We don't want him to get harassed," he observed.
Referring to High Court Additional Judge Faizee's alleged certificate tampering, the SCBA president said "None but Prime Minister Khaleda Zia aroused the controversy. It is she who appointed the 19 judges, and of them, one did not have proper certificate. She should immediately withdraw the judge [Faizee] and uphold the dignity of the judiciary.
"You [PM] can however still appoint him as a minister or an ambassador or whatever you want," he added.
Barrister Shawkat Ali noted, "The
chief justice once withdrew Faizee from the bench. But he has been again given a bench. This is simply immoral. He is the chief justice of the country, he should have the least conscience."
Former SCBA president Ozaer Faruk said, "During the Ershad regime, artist Quamrul Hasan drew a cartoon that described the nation as languishing in the clutches of an utterly shameless person. Now we can say the judiciary is in the grip of yet another shameless person."
"Faizee does not deserve to get any bench, be it morally or legally," he added.
Drawing attention of the chief justice Faruk said, "If you think that you will be able to run the Supreme Court following the dictates of the government, you are wrong."
After the sit-in, the lawyers brought out a black flag procession that paraded the Supreme Court premises.
In the afternoon, pro-BNP lawyers under the banner of Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Jote held a meeting at the Bar Building to protest the SCBA's black flag procession.
BNP Central Law Secretary Advocate Jainul Abedin speaking at the meeting said that by staging such demonstrations the Bar association is destroying the image of the Supreme Court.