The Supreme Court (SC) has summoned seven pro-BNP lawyers to appear before the court on January 15 next year over their "slanderous, derogatory and contemptuous" comments against to Appellate Division judges on August 27.
A four-member bench of the Appellate Division of the SC, headed by Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan, passed the order on Wednesday following a contempt of court petition filed by a SC lawyer against them.
The seven lawyers are -- former attorney general AJ Mohammad Ali, Fahima Nasrin Munni, Kayser Kamal, Md Abdul Jabbar Bhuiyan, Md Ruhul Quddus Kazal, Gazi Kamrul Islam Sajal, and Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman. All the lawyers are leaders of the Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum, a platform for pro-BNP lawyers.
SC lawyer Md Nazmul Huda, who is also a leader of the Gaibandha Juba League, on August 29 this year submitted the petition through his lawyer Nahid Sultana Juthi to the apex court praying to it to draw contempt of court proceedings against the seven lawyers and to punish them for their comments about the two SC judges at a press conference held on the Supreme Court Bar Association premises on August 27.
He said that the seven lawyers, despite being officers of the highest rank, showed an ‘audacious display of disobedience and willful disregard to the honourable Appellate Division’ by giving an ultimatum to the chief justice to keep the two judges out of the court in 48 hours.
He said that the scandalous and derogatory comments of the seven lawyers were published and broadcast live on electronic and social media.
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