Lawyers from across the country including Chattogram District Bar Association demanded immediate transfer of the case of the murder of lawyer Saiful Islam Alif to a speedy trial tribunal.
They urged the government to transfer the gruesome killing case to the speedy trial tribunal so that killers could be brought to justice immediately and ensure justice for the victim's family in the shortest possible time.
The demand was made from several human chains formed in protest of the murder and individually since the lawyer was hacked to death in the port city of Chattogram.
Earlier on Wednesday, Chattogram District Bar Association organised a human chain at the court premises and several Supreme Court lawyers including Supreme Court Bar Association Secretary Ruhul Kuddus Kajol demanded the transfer of the Alif killing case to the speedy trial tribunal.
Besides, Noakhali District Bar Association and other District Bar Associations had earlier demanded to bring the killers under justice and ensure punishment for the perpetrators immediately through the speedy trial tribunal.
Addressing the gathering, Chattogram Bar President Nazim Uddin on Wednesday said that Chimmoy Krishna Das instigated violence before he was sent to jail in a sedition case.
After being placed in a prison van, Chimmoy Das used the police microphone to incite his supporters, triggering a series of violent incidents and Alif was killed in an attack by his supporters near the court premises on November 26.
'We, as an association, are determined not to back down until justice is meted out. Many of those responsible for Alif's murder are still at large. We are urging the authorities to ensure arrest of those involved and transfer of the case to a speedy trial tribunal without delay,' General Secretary of the Association, Muhammad Ashraf Hossain Chowdhury Razzak, said.
'We urge the government to take decisive action against the ISKCON miscreants responsible for this brutal killing,' he said.
Senior Vice-President Mohammad Abdul Quader, Vice-President Md Mahfuzur Rahman and other members of the association also addressed the programme.
A total of six cases were filed so far over the incidents centring the lawyer murder near the court premises in Chattogram city.
Charges in these cases included, among others, obstructing government officers in the course of their duty and vandalism.
Of the six cases, three have been filed by the police, victim families filed two cases, and a businessman filed the other. Altogether 40 people have been arrested in connection with the killing of Saiful.
