Zulfiqer Haider, the chief metropolitan magistrate of Dhaka, informed the lawyers about the development, Dhaka Bar Association’s President Iqbal Hossain said following daylong demonstrations on the court premises. The association discussed the issue after the lawyer, Rubel Ahmed Bhuiyan, filed a complaint. Lawyers block the entrance to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Old Dhaka in protest against the alleged detention of 'detaining' one of their colleagues, Dec 23, 2020. The protesting lawyers marched into the courts of Asaduzzaman and several other judges and began demanding justice for Rubel. The lawyers then went on to lock the magistrate’s court and the collapsible gate of the old CMM Court building.

Source: bd News24 December 23, 2020 18:22 UTC