Lawyers in need to get up to Tk 75,000 interest-free for 3yrs

Staff Correspondent

Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) will provide Tk 30,000 to maximum Tk 75,000 as loans without any interest for three years to its lawyers in need, in order to tackle the ongoing crisis due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Around SCBA 3,000 members who have applied for the loans will be given the money through their bank accounts by this week, said SCBA President Advocate AM Amin Uddin.

The lawyers who have become SCBA members before 2000 will be given Tk 75,000 each; those between 2000-2007 will be given Tk 50,000 each; and those between 2008 and 2013 will be given Tk 40,000 each, the SCBA president furhter said.

He said lawyers who will be given the loan have been asked to refund the money to SCBA fund in five installments by December 2022.

Otherwise, they will have to refund the money with interest, he said.