Khaleda's writ petition won't be sent to CJ

A High Court bench yesterday rejected a petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for sending to the Chief Justice her earlier writ petition challenging a government notice that asked her to leave the cantonment house.
Justice Md Imman Ali and Justice Obaidul Hasan of the bench, in which Khaleda apprehended that she will not get justice, fixed May 4 for hearing the writ petition filed by her in May last year.
Khaleda yesterday submitted a fresh petition through her lawyers to this bench for sending the writ petition to the Chief Justice for referring it to another bench.
The judges on Sunday had to urge the senior lawyers to save them and the image of the Supreme Court, as a group of pro-BNP lawyers the same day created "an unprecedented chaos" during the proceedings of the writ petition in their bench.
The bench, however, yesterday said that the petitioner (Khaleda) can move an appeal by May 4 to the Chief Justice for fixing any other bench for hearing the petition.
It passed the order after hearing arguments for about 40 minutes from Khaleda's counsel Moudud Ahmed and Attorney General Mahbubey Alam in the jam-packed courtroom.
Moudud Ahmed told the court that his client is apprehending that she will not get justice from this bench, as this bench heard her petition hurriedly.
This bench earlier on Sunday threatened the petitioner's lawyers of arrest by the police, he said, adding that it (bench) the same day rejected a prayer of Khaleda Zia for adjournment on hearing the writ petition endorsing the arguments of the attorney general.
Mahbubey Alam countered the arguments of Moudud saying that the judges of the bench did not make any such comment on Sunday that proved that the judges were influenced.
The Chief Justice has referred the writ petition to this bench for hearing, and the bench should not return the petition back to the Chief Justice, he said.
The attorney general said some pro-BNP lawyers created the chaos to damage the court's proceedings and environment that forced the judges to give the warning of arrest.
A large number of lawyers from both sides were present in the courtroom during the hearing.