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Bar Council poll

SCBA demands probe into irregularities

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 01 September 2015

Staff Reporter :
The Supreme Court Bar Association [SCBA] has demanded immediate cancellation of election result of the Bar Council raising allegations of ‘irregularities’ and partiality by country’s top law official Attorney General Mahbubey Alam.
“Out of 5,800 legal voters of SCBA, only 3,407 voters were enlisted in the voter list of Bar Council election. That means, 1,597 voters have been deleted from the list. It’s totally illegal. Of the deleted voters, there are former Attorney General Hasan Arif and Mahamudul Islam,” Barrister Mahbubuddin Khokon, General Secretary of SCBA, said at a Press conference held at Shafiur Rahman Auditorium in the Supreme Court on Monday.
Mahbubuddin Khokon also demanded to the Chief Justice for carrying out an impartial probe under the auspices of a Supreme Court justice about the ‘irregularities’ in the voter list and holding a new election of Bar Council.
In a written statement Mahbubuddin Khokon, who was also a general secretary candidate of pro BNP-led panel in the recently held Bar Council election, said, “There are 19, 842 members in Dhaka SCBA. But only 12, 425 members have been included in the voter list of Bar Council. They kept out 7,704 members from the voter list. Not only that, about 50/60 lawyers of country’s 81 bar associations were not included in the voter list.”  
Two other candidates of Bar Council election Advocate Sanaullah Mia and advocate Mohsin Mia, among others, were present at the press conference.
Refuting the allegation, Bar Council Chairman Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said the pro-BNP lawyers have raised such accusation after their defeat in the bar council election.
The ruling party Awami League-backed Sammilita Ainjibi Samannay Parishad Panel has unofficially won the ten posts out of 14 in the Bangladesh Bar Council election held on Wednesday. On the other hand, the pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Parishad Panel got the other four posts in the Bar Council.
AL-backed panel includes Barrister M Amir-ul Islam, Abdul Baset Majumdar, Rokon Uddin Mahmud, Abdul Matin Khasru and Parimal Chandra Guha, among others. Besides, the BNP-supported panel includes Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, AJ Mohammad Ali, AM Mahbub Uddin (Khokon) and Sanaullah Mia, among others.
Some 43,302 lawyers cast their votes to elect the 14-member executive body out of 61 contestants, Bar Council Assistant Director Nazmul Ahsan said.