SCBA pleas for withdrawal of case against SC lawyers
Friday, 1 May 2009
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Thursday submitted separate applications to the minister for law and home affairs for taking appropriate steps to withdraw the two sedition cases against its members over vandalism on the SC premises in November 2006, reports UNB.
The SCBA considered the cases filed during the previous BNP-led alliance government -- one by the SC court keeper and another by Barrister Omar Sadat, son-in-law of fugitive-convict BNP leader and former minister Shajahan Siraj, as politically motivated and intended to harass.
Both the cases are now pending with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrates Court.
On November 30 in 2006, violence erupted on the SC premises as the then Chief Justice Syed JR Mudassir Husain had stayed the proceedings of three writ petitions minutes before a High Court division bench was to issue rule on one writ challenging the legality of the then President Iajuddin Ahmed's takeover as the chief adviser to the caretaker government.
The SCBA considered the cases filed during the previous BNP-led alliance government -- one by the SC court keeper and another by Barrister Omar Sadat, son-in-law of fugitive-convict BNP leader and former minister Shajahan Siraj, as politically motivated and intended to harass.
Both the cases are now pending with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrates Court.
On November 30 in 2006, violence erupted on the SC premises as the then Chief Justice Syed JR Mudassir Husain had stayed the proceedings of three writ petitions minutes before a High Court division bench was to issue rule on one writ challenging the legality of the then President Iajuddin Ahmed's takeover as the chief adviser to the caretaker government.