Chittagong District Bar Association
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| Formation | 1893 |
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| Headquarters | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Region served | Bangladesh |
Official language | Bengali |
| Website | cdba |
Chittagong District Bar Association is bar association for Chittagong District in Bangladesh.
History
[edit]On 23 March 1893, 17 lawyers established the Chittagong District Bar Association.[1] It is housed inside the historic Chittagong Court Building.[1][2]
The Chittagong District Bar Association decided to close the Chittagong District Court on hartal (strike) days in 1989, making it the only district court in the country to do so.[3][4] In 2005, the Ainjibi Samannoy Parishad, backed by Awami League, won the bar election.[5]
In May 2016, the president of the association, Md. Mujibul Haque, wrote to the Ministry of Law requesting additional judges for the Chittagong District Court.[6] The Ainjibi Oikya Parishad, backed by Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Bangladesh Jammat e Islami, won the most seats in the 2016 bar election.[7] Sammilita Ainjibi Shamannay Parishad, backed by the Awami League, received the second-highest number of seats, followed by the Samomana Ainjibi Sangsad, backed by left-wing political parties.[7]
It signed an agreement for receiving membership dues with Sonali Bank Limited.[8] The Awami League supported Sammilita Ainjibi Shamannay Parishad won the 2022 association election led by Abu Mohammad Hashem.[9]
Following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government, the general secretary of the association, Ashraf Hossain Chowdhury, was appointed public prosecutor of the Chittagong District.[10] He got into an argument with a judge he pleaded for the judge to accept a case by Showaibul Islam, who was injured in protests against the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.[10] The judge had asked the plaintiff to name 126 accused, almost all of whom were unnamed, in the case, which Chowdhury argued was not possible.[10]
After the Murder of Saiful Islam Alif, a member of the association, at the bail hearing of Bangladeshi Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, the association demanded the arrest of all accused in the murder, including 70 lawyers.[11] The association closed the court protesting the murder.[12][13] It established an inquiry committee into the murder.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "History || CDBA". cdba.com.bd. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
- ^ "Ctg court building needs repair to save lives". The Daily Star. 2007-12-12. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
- ^ "Ctg courts remain shut on hartals". The Daily Star. 2013-03-19. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
- ^ "Lawyers' abstention halts trial proceedings in Chittagong courts". Bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
- ^ "AL backed lawyers bag majority posts". The Daily Star. 2005-02-13. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
- ^ "Judge shortage makes Ctg litigants suffer". The Daily Star. 2015-08-16. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
- ^ a b "Kafil Ctg Bar Assoc president, Jahed gen secretary". The Daily Star. 2016-02-12. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
- ^ "Sonali Bank inks deal with Ctg District Bar Association -". The Daily Observer. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
- ^ "Hashem president, Zia Uddin GS in Ctg bar election". The Business Standard. 2022-02-11. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
- ^ a b c "Heated exchange between judge and lawyer halts proceedings in Ctg court". The Business Standard. 2024-10-22. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
- ^ "SC lawyers' team to seek Chinmoy's bail today". The Daily Star. 2025-01-02. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
- ^ "Chittagong lawyers announce court boycott, suspend activities for second day". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
- ^ "Saiful Islam's murder: Court proceedings halted as Chittagong lawyers continue strike". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
- ^ "Lawyer Alif murder: Inquiry committee members seek exemption". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 2025-03-25.