Court Correspondent :
The High Court yesterday suspended Zahirul Islam Palash, Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) of Khulna Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2, from law practice for 30 days for allegedly making derogatory comments about a District Judge.
The High Court bench of Justice JBM Hassan and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil passed the order after hearing of a suo moto (voluntary) contempt of court rule against Advocate Zahirul Islam.
Earlier in the day, Palash appeared before the apex court bench in compliance with a summon and offered an unconditional apology to this court for his acts.
The bench also fixed June 10 for further hearing on the issue and asked Zahir to appear before it on that day in connection with the rule, Deputy Attorney General Kazi Mynul Hassan told the media.
Zahir’s lawyer M Sayed Ahmed Raza told the media that his client cannot appear before any court of Khulna for the next 30 days for moving any case following the High Court order.
On April 3, the apex court bench issued the suomoto rule and summons order against Zahir after Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan sent the issues to this bench for hearing and disposal. The Chief Justice has taken the move after receiving a letter from Judge Tarikul Islam of Khulna Metropolitan Court on March 31.
In the letter, Judge Tarikul described the incident of heated arguments made by Zahir during the hearing of a case in his courtroom and “false and derogatory comments” about the judge outside the courtroom on live video on March 25.