Adv Razzaq files case against an IOJ faction leader
Monday, 17 March 2008
FE Report
Barrister Abdur Razzaq, senior advocate of the Supreme Court (SC), filed a civil suit in the city court claiming a compensation of Tk 1.0 billion (100 crore) from Mesbahur Rahman Chowdhury, the so-called chairman of a break-away faction of the Islami Oikko Jote (IOJ).
On February 16 last Chowdhury hurt Razzaq's reputation by alleging that he had been involved in war crimes in 1971.
In his petition before the court Razzaq has asserted that he was called to the Bar by the Society of Lincoln's Inn in 1980. Thereafter he was trained as a Barrister in the chambers of Sir Michael Havers QC who was the Attorney General of the British government during the first government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and also in the Chambers of Lord Rawlinson QC. Thereafter he practised independently at the Bar of England and Wales for a period of three years.
In the recent past he has been interviewed by BBC World, Al-Jazeera. BBC Bangla Service and other television networks.
Razzaq has also asserted in the petition that for the last 22 years he has been practising in the High Court and the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and no one has made such an allegation against him.
Barrister Abdur Razzaq, senior advocate of the Supreme Court (SC), filed a civil suit in the city court claiming a compensation of Tk 1.0 billion (100 crore) from Mesbahur Rahman Chowdhury, the so-called chairman of a break-away faction of the Islami Oikko Jote (IOJ).
On February 16 last Chowdhury hurt Razzaq's reputation by alleging that he had been involved in war crimes in 1971.
In his petition before the court Razzaq has asserted that he was called to the Bar by the Society of Lincoln's Inn in 1980. Thereafter he was trained as a Barrister in the chambers of Sir Michael Havers QC who was the Attorney General of the British government during the first government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and also in the Chambers of Lord Rawlinson QC. Thereafter he practised independently at the Bar of England and Wales for a period of three years.
In the recent past he has been interviewed by BBC World, Al-Jazeera. BBC Bangla Service and other television networks.
Razzaq has also asserted in the petition that for the last 22 years he has been practising in the High Court and the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and no one has made such an allegation against him.