Roof-Top Constn on SCBA Bldg
Some lawyers stop police from enforcing HC order
A section of lawyers of the Supreme Court yesterday obstructed police who went there to stop construction on the roof of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) office building.
A police team went to the SCBA building around 11:30am to prevent erecting rooms on the 50-year old building as per a High Court directive, according to some lawyers.
The pro-BNP lawyers then brought out a procession on the SCBA premises protesting entry of police and chanted slogans against the judges of HC, who passed the order.
An HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain on March 6 issued a suo moto order directing Public Works Department (PWD) to immediately stop the construction.
It also issued a rule upon the authorities concerned of government and SCBA president and secretary to explain why the construction should not be declared illegal.
The order came following a report of The Daily Star headlined "SCBA erecting rooms on old building 'illegally'".
Dr Belal Hossain Joy, a SC lawyer, placed the report seeking an HC directive to stop the construction.
SCBA President Khandker Mahbub Hossain told reporters that police entered the SCBA premises illegally and without permission from the chief justice or him.
Police cannot interfere with the SCBA's constriction, which is now a subjudice matter, he said.
SCBA Secretary Bodruddoza Badal told The Daily Star that they have already finished the construction of structures, and there is no effectiveness of the HC order.
PWD's Chief Engineer Dewan Mohamad Yamin, however, said a team of PWD yesterday stopped the work of vertical extension of SCBA building.
"We stopped the construction works following the High Court order," he said.
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