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Procession on SC Premises

Pro-BNP-Jamaat lawyers defy ban

Also deny Tuesday's consensus with pro-AL lawyers about not staging protest there

Staff Correspondent
A group of pro-BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami lawyers brought out a procession on the Supreme Court premises yesterday, ignoring the previous day's decision of not holding such programmes there and defying a 2005 High Court prohibition.
Around 1:00pm, they paraded around the SC building and ended up on the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) premises, voicing their support for BNP's indefinite blockade to resist the "onesided" January 5 election.
Chief Justice Md Muzammel
Hossain termed the demonstration there "unfortunate", SC Registrar AKM Shamsul Islam told The Daily Star.
In May 2005, the High Court banned all kinds of agitation on the SC or any court premises and boycott of court, he said, adding that such demonstrations were also prohibited by the Supreme Court rules.
"I think that the lawyers, who are holding rallies and brining out processions on the Supreme Court premises, are aware of the 2005 High Court order and the Supreme Court rules," said the registrar.
In a suo motu rule on May 23, 2005, the HC prohibited gathering, picketing and laying siege to the entrance of any court, and boycott of and abstention from court on the basis of the decision of any bar association, or Bangladesh Bar Council.
It also banned activities interfering in the judicial work or operations of any court or hindering access of any person to court. In addition, lawyers were barred
from circulating leaflets, putting up banners or giving statements or publishing them in any way through the press or any other media.
On Tuesday, some prominent SC lawyers loyal to both ruling and opposition parties met the chief justice at his SC office and unanimously agreed not to hold any rally there to protect the sanctity and image of the country's highest court.
They came up with the decision after the chief justice
and other SC judges expressed concern over entry of outsiders into the court premises and attack on some lawyers on December 29 last year, when they were rallying at the SC's main gate in support of BNP's "march for democracy.
SCBA President AJ Mohammad Ali, a pro-BNP lawyer who was present at the meeting with the chief justice, told reporters yesterday that there had been no consensus among the lawyers about observing any
"peaceful programme enforced by the opposition".
SC Registrar Shamsul termed Ali’s statement “ridiculous", while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam thinks that Ali denied the fact about the consensus under the pressure from BNPand Jamaat.
Yesterday’s demonstration of the pro-BNP-Jamaat lawyers is a clear violation of the 2005 HC order and the SC rules, the attorney general told The Daily Star.