Law Minister Anisul Huq on Tuesday said Deputy Attorney General Imran Ahmed Bhuiyan has breached discipline by making statements before the press about a letter that the government lawyer claimed was being prepared by the attorney general's office in relation to Prof Muhammad Yunus.
Anisul made the remarks while replying to a question from journalists after attending a discussion organised by the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) on the proposed cyber security law at the Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka.
“He [DAG Imran] is employed by the Attorney General's Office. If he wants to speak to reporters, he should either resign and speak or obtain permission from the Attorney General's Office. He did not do any of them,” the minister said.
Asked if any action would be taken against him, the law minister said, "We will look into it.”
DAG Bhuiyan on Monday called a press briefing where he claimed that he refused to sign a statement allegedly prepared by the Attorney General’s Office in protest against the statement of world leaders in support of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.
“More than 160 global leaders gave a statement in an open letter to the prime minister. I believe that Dr Yunus has been subjected to judicial harassment. The Attorney General’s Office has decided to provide a counter statement and a directive was issued to sign the statement prepared by the office of the AG through a WhatsApp group of lawyers,” he told reporters.
“But I will not sign as I believe that the trial proceeding of the case against Dr Yunus could be handled in other ways,” he added.
On August 28, over 170 global leaders, including more than 100 Nobel laureates, issued an open letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, calling for the suspension of judicial proceedings against Dr Muhammad Yunus.
In the letter, the signatories called the proceeding against the Nobel laureate a “judicial harassment.”
In response, more than 150 notable citizens, including educationists, economists, lawyers, journalists, actors, writers and theatre personalities, published multiple statements calling the statements made by the world leaders a “threat to the nation’s sovereignty” and “interference in the country’s judiciary.”
