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Pro-BNP Lawyers

Court boycott across country

Staff Correspondent
Pro-BNP lawyers yesterday boycotted courts across the country, including the Supreme Court, for about two and a half hours, protesting the government's action that foiled their rally on the SC premises on Saturday.
Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi
Court boycott
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Forum, a platform of pro-BNP lawyers, observed the court boycott programme from 10:30am to 1:00pm yesterday.
All the judges of the Appellate Division of the SC and most of the judges of its High Court Division sat in the courtrooms on time and discharged their judicial functions almost normally, though the presence of lawyers was poor.
Some judges of the HC Division did not sit in the courtrooms in the morning due to the absence of lawyers, court sources said.
Leaders and activists of the Ainjibi Forum staged a demonstration on the court premises to protest at not being allowed to hold the rally on the SC premises where BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was scheduled to attend as the chief guest.
During the boycott programme, the forum leaders locked the gate of the SC building in front of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) office, restricting the lawyers' entry into the court building.
However, Ainjibi Forum leader and Supreme Court Bar Association president Khandker Mahbub Hossain attended the Appellate Division to move a case in the morning.
Khandker Mahbub said he went to the apex court before the start of the court boycott programme.
He moved a petition that prayed to the Appellate Division to allow advocate Tajul Islam to place arguments on behalf of war crimes convict Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman during the hearing of his appeal against the death penalty awarded by the International Crimes Tribunal-2.
The apex court rejected the petition.
latiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum Secretary General AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, who is also secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association, said the lawyers spontaneously boycotted courts across the country in protest at Saturday's government's action.
The judges of Dhaka court ran their judicial functions as usual. Even the president of Dhaka Bar Association Mohsin Mian, also an Ainjibi Forum leader, moved cases before a court.