DHAKA, Dec 05, 2019 (BSS) – Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs
Minister Anisul Huq today said it appears from BNP lawyers’ Thursday’s
unprecedented chaos inside courtroom at Appellate Division that the party
does not have any respect for rule of law.
“I strongly condemn the contemptuous behavior inside courtroom by BNP
lawyers and some of their supporters those came from outside and attempt to
create anarchy during hearing on Khaleda Zia’s bail plea at the Appellate
Division of the Supreme Court,” the law minister said at a press briefing
this afternoon at his Gulshan residence.
Anisul said it was also seen in past that whenever any court order,
judgement goes against them, BNP lawyers and their outsider supporters try to
create chaotic situation in court.
Earlier in the morning, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC)
adjourned till December 12 the hearing on bail plea filed by BNP chairperson
Begum Khaleda Zia in Zia Charitable Trust graft case. The apex court passed
the allowing a time plea of the state.
“Let this matter appear in the list on December 12, 2019, for hearing,”
said a six-member apex court bench headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud
Hossain, asking Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) vice
chancellor to submit the report by December 11.
But right after apex court’s order, adjourning the bail hearing,
counsels of Khaleda Zia along with pro-BNP lawyers started chanting political
slogans, slandering court, creating a chaotic situation inside the courtroom.
“It appears from such activities that BNP does not have any respect for
rule of law, they do not have any loyalty towards supreme constitutional
institutions of the country and no state institution is safe from them,” he
added.
The minister further said the government would not let anyone to insult
any state institution and would bound to take action against those who would
commit such unruly acts.