Attorney General Mahbubey Alam on Tuesday said the ongoing bomb attacks on judges were an attempt to scuttle the war crimes trial and corruption cases against the two sons of Opposition Leader and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.
The top law officer urged judges to continue the trials without any hesitation and said: “We lawyers are with you.” He also appealed to all lawyers to unite against such attacks.
Mahbubey Alam was addressing an assembly arranged by Sammilita Ainjibi Samannoy Parishad, a forum of lawyers backed by the ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance, at the Supreme Court Bar Association building protesting the attacks and countrywide anarchy.
Appellate Division judge Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, who is also a member of the panel dealing with war crimes appeal cases, came under a bomb attack during the opposition-sponsored 60-hour countrywide hartal while an attempt was made to bomb the residence of Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain. Many important documents of the lower court in the capital were also burnt.
Awami League advisory committee member Yusuf Hossain Humaun, the party’s central Law Secretary Abdul Matin Khasru and Abdul Baset Majumdar also addressed the meeting moderated by former SCBA secretary SM Rezaul karim.
Pro-BNP lawyers brought out a procession in support of the hartal on Tuesday.