4 Panchgarh judges attached to ministry

The Panchagarh District and Sessions Judge, along with three other judges, have been attached as officers to the Law and Justice Division.

Responding to the recent protests by the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement demanding their removal, AFM Golzar Rahman, deputy secretary (Administration-1) of the Law and Justice Division under the law ministry issued separate notifications regarding the transfer, following the president's directive today.

The notifications were published on the ministry's Law and Justice Division website in the evening.

The attached judges are Md Golam Faruk, district and sessions judge, Mehedi Hasan Mandal, chief judicial magistrate, Md Ashrafuzzaman, senior judicial magistrate, and Abu Hena Siddiqui, judicial magistrate.

Under the banner of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, the protesters besieged Panchagarh Judge's Court on Sunday, locking its main gate and staging demonstrations by barricading the Panchagarh-Banglabandha highway for hours demanding the removal of the four judges.

They made the demands over their alleged involvement in corruption in recruiting employees and intimidating leaders of the anti-discrimination student movement.