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Bar body won't meet SC judges if Faizee is present

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) will boycott a conventional courtesy call on the Supreme Court judges today if controversial judge Faisal Mahmud Faizee remains present there.
The court opens today after 44 days of annual vacation. According to a longstanding tradition, the SCBA leaders and members meet the chief justice and all other judges of the Supreme Court and its High Court division.
The SCBA leaders said at a press briefing yesterday that they want to uphold the tradition. “We urge the chief justice and other judges to keep Faizee out of this courtesy call, so that we can maintain this tradition,” SCBA president Advocate Mahbubey Alam said. “Tomorrow morning (this morning) at around 10:30 am, we shall first check if Faizee is there. If he's there, it will not be possible for us to make this courtesy call,” he added.
The SCBA received a letter on October 9 from the Chief Justice's office inviting its leaders to the courtesy meeting. On October 11, the SCBA executive committee at a meeting noted that the controversy over Faizee's LLB certificate and his real age have not been resolved and that the SCBA has been demanding the authorities not to assign Faizee in any judicial works. In such a situation, the meeting decided to request the Chief Justice to take steps to ensure that Faizee is not present at the courtesy meeting. Otherwise, the SCBA will not participate.
The resolution of the meeting was later sent to the chief justice. But the Chief Justice's office had not replied as ofyesterday.
“Our demand about the removal of Faizee from the judiciary stands unchanged,” Mahbubey Alam pointed out.
He added, the SCBA secretary on June 30 wrote to the president to resolve the Faizee controversy. The president's office then forwarded this letter to the Law Ministry to take “appropriate actions as per the law”. But since then, no steps have been taken.
“The government could have resolved the issue easily. The notification through which Faizee's appointment was issued could have been withdrawn to end this matter,” he said.
Mahbubey noted that some BNP-Jamaat leaders under the banner of Datmara Madrasa in Fatikchhari of Chittagong accorded Faizee a reception last month. “At that place, Faizee gave a speech in the manner of a politician,” he added.
Through a directive, the High Court had earlier barred any gathering, procession or other agitation activities in the court premises. When the press asked Mahbubey whether the press conference violates that directive, he replied, “The court did not restrict us from speaking. We are not doing anything in violation of the court verdict. We are doing this to uphold the image of the court.”
On the issue of the militants' bomb attacks on the court, the SCBA leaders said they are concerned about the security on the court premises.
As part of security measures, the SCBA members have decided to wear identity cards so that outsiders can be easily separated from SCBA members.
Mahbubey noted that in the last couple of years they have seen the presence of a rising number of intelligence agency staffs.
“The government is using them to check out who speaks against the government when it should have used them to find out the bombers. This proves that the government is not sincere about arresting the bombers,” he said.
After last year's annual vacation, the SCBA boycotted for the first time the courtesy meeting with the judges, protesting the appointment process of 19 additional high court judges.
Meanwhile, the pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum Supreme Court unit held a meeting saying that in the name of the Bar Association, a quarter has unethically announced a boycott of the courtesy meeting over the issue of ajudge.
“We believe that boycotting all judges centring one judge is ignoring all the judges,” said a statement of the forum, urging the SCBA to withdraw the decision and join today's meeting.