Five lawyers were placed on a three-day remand by a Dhaka Court on Saturday in connection with a case filed over the Saturdays Supreme Court Bar Association election violence.
Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Haider passed the order after Abul Kalam Azad, Investigation Officer and Inspector of Detective Branch (DB) of police produced them before the court seeking a five-day remand for questioning.
A team of DB on Saturday morning arrested the five lawyers for their alleged involvement with the chaos and violence during the vote counting of the 2024-25 election of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA).
The lawyers who will face interrogation are Adv Kazi Bashir Ahmed, Adv Tushar, Adv Tariqul, Adv Sumon, and Adv Usman.
All are the first information (FIR)-listed accused of the case filed with the Shahbagh Police Station regarding the attack.
Earlier, the vote counting in the two-day SCBA election was halted Saturday morning following an altercation due to alleged interference of a group of outsiders on behalf of a candidate.
The outsiders attacked some lawyers who were present at the polling centre in the SCBA auditorium as the votes were scheduled to be counted there. A lawyer suffered injuries and other lawyers, including candidates and members of the election subcommittee, left the SCBA premises amid a tense situation.
