Both pro-government and pro-opposition lawyers yesterday assured the chief justice of not holding any rallies, processions and meetings on Supreme Court premises from now.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam yesterday told the Dhaka Tribune that the lawyers could hold their programmes in the Supreme Court Bar Association building and bring out processions parading only through the Mazar gate of the High Court.
The issue of hunger strike, however, did not come up in the meeting with Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain. The attorney general was present at the meeting.
The chief justice had called upon the attorney general, present and former SCBA presidents and secretaries, and other senior lawyers for the meeting at 2pm.
Appellate Division judges Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, Justice Abdul Wahhab Miah, Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana, Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, Justice Md Imman Ali and Justice Hasan Foez Siddique, SCBA President AJ Mohammad Ali, acting secretary ABM Rafiqul Islam Raza, former presidents Abdul Baset Majumder, Habibul Islam Bhuiya and AFM Mesbahuddin, former secretaries SM Rezaul Karim and Bodruddoza Badal, former attorney general AF Hassan Ariff, and senior lawyers Anisul Huq and Yusuf Hossain Humayun were present in the meeting.
SM Rezaul Karim said the chief justice had expressed his concern over Sunday’s political violence on Supreme Court premises and asked for assistance of lawyers so no such unwanted incidents took place in future.
On Sunday, pro-Awami League men attacked pro-BNP lawyers, storming into the Supreme Court compound.
