A High Court bench yesterday refused to pass any order regarding an altercation between a doctor, a magistrate and a police officer over the possession of a movement pass, the video footage of which went viral on social media yesterday.

The incident occurred when the physician was pressed to show a movement pass amid a "lockdown", despite her identity as a healthcare professional.

Supreme Court lawyer Md Eunus Ali Akond placed the newspaper reports published about the incident before the HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Sardar Md Rashed Jahangir seeking necessary orders on the issue.

He prayed to the court to pass a suo motu (voluntary) order.

The HC bench, however, told the lawyer that he has no locus standi (right to  appear in court) to seek such an order as he is not an aggrieved person.

"We will look into the matter if any aggrieved person comes before us for any order," Justice Enayetur Rahim told Eunus.

The SC lawyer told The Daily Star that he would move a petition before the  HC for an order on the government to conduct an enquiry into the incident and to take necessary action against the magistrate and police.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA), Swadhinata Chikitsak Parishad's Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) and Bangladesh Police Service Association (BPSA) yesterday issued separate statements over the incident.

BMA's President Mostafa Jalal Mohiuddin and its Secretary General Md Ehteshamul Hoque Chowdhury in their statement said the doctors and health workers, as frontliners, are being harassed and disturbed by law enforcers, which is both frightening and disappointing.

BSMMU's Associate Prof Sayeda Shawkat Janny was humiliated when she was at the capital's Elephant Road area on April 18 by being confined to her car after being pressured to prove her identity, despite having a car sticker and hospital gown to validate her profession as a health worker, the BMA leaders said, adding that such conduct from law enforcers was disappointing.

They requested the authorities concerned to find out the people responsible for the incident by conducting an enquiry and punish them accordingly.

Swadhinata Chikitsak Parishad's BSMMU unit in their statement, signed by its Convener Prof Abu Nasar Rizvi and its Member Secretary Ariful Islam Joardar Tito, demanded the BSMMU authorities lodge a complainant against the police personnel responsible.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh Police Service Association (BPSA) President Md Shafiqul Islami and its General Secretary Mohammad Zayedul Alam in their statement said every member of the Bangladesh police was shocked at the "unprofessional  conduct and misbehaviour" of a doctor, who was not on duty.

They strongly demanded that the department concerned  takes appropriate action against the doctor.