CJ's house-arrest a sheer lie: AG

Mentioning that Chief Justice (CJ) SK Sinha has recently visited Dhakeshwari Temple and Australian High Commission in Dhaka, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam on Friday said those who are claiming that he has been kept under house arrest are lying, report agencies.

"They're spreading a blatant falsehood. There should be a limit to lies," he said while talking to reporters after offering Juma prayers at a mosque at Ghoradour in Louhajang upazila of Munshiganj.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has set a rare example by standing by the Rohingya refugees who fled into Bangladesh following persecution in Rakhine state of Myanmar by its military forces, said the chief law officer of the state.

Meanwhile, Police have obstructed the BNP-backed leaders of Supreme Court Bar Association from going to the official residence of Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, now on sick leave, to see him.

They stopped two cars carrying the pro-BNP lawyers' leaders at Matsya Bhaban intersection when they were en route to the chief justice's home at Hare Road on Friday afternoon.

The association's general secretary AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon told the news agency that police also forced them out of the cars.

"When we told the police we were going to the chief justice's house to enquire about his health, they said we couldn't see him. We returned to the Supreme Court later," he said.

He said they would organise a press conference at 11:00 am today (Saturday) over the police obstruction.

A leader of the Bar Association said its vice-president Umme Kulsum Rekha and member Ayesha Akter were among four to five lawyers, who went to see the chief justice and gathered in front of the house before 5:00 pm.

Some other leaders of the association, headed by its president Zainul Abedin, also started for the chief justice's house from the Supreme Court at the time.