Misleading Court
Journo complains against 2 lawyers
A veteran journalist lodged a complaint with Bangladesh Bar Council against two lawyers of Dhaka Judges' Court on charge of committing professional misconduct by misleading the court and threatening to kill him by using hired criminals.
The tribunal of the council, the licensing authority of the country's lawyers, yesterday fixed December 10 for the hearing.
Abdur Rahim, former executive editor of The Bangladesh Observer, filed the complaint on July 14 saying that advocates Shamim Ara and Md Jahangir Alam filed a false eviction case on behalf of one Shahjahan Mollah.
Shahjahan, father of Shamim, is a convict in a forgery case in a lower court and is now on bail from the High Court (HC), he said.
Rahim said the eviction case filed with Second Assistant Judge's Court, Dhaka in 2006 showed one Abdul Mannan as an illegal occupier of his house on Road 26 in the city's Gulshan through a false power of attorney.
“As I became a party to the eviction case, the two filed a petition with the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Court-1, Dhaka for staying its proceedings. But the court rejected this petition,” he said.
The two then filed another stay petition, saying they submitted a seperate petition with the HC for quashing the case. Jahangir submitted a certificate to the ACMM Court on December 22, 2009, in this connection, he said.
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