The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president and secretary yesterday strongly protested the search incident at the Nayapaltan chamber of Abdur Razzaq, principal counsel for the detained Jamaat leaders, by policemen on Monday.

SCBA president Khandaker Mahbub Hossain and its secretary Md Badruddoza in a statement also expressed serious concern over comments made by policemen during the search.

Two plainclothes policemen entered Razzaq's chamber at about 12:00noon on Monday and started searching the room, saying they had information that bombs are made there.

This amounts to a threat to the lawyers doing their jobs, the SCBA leaders said.

The lawyers don't support the offences but take the responsibility to prove whether the accused are guilty or innocent on the basis of evidence and documents, they observed.