THE district and sessions judge of Narayanganj, Abul Mansur Ahmed, on Tuesday brought a contempt of court proceeding against four lawyers for creating anarchy in the court premises.
   The copy of the order was sent to the secretary of the law, justice and parliamentary affairs ministry and registrar of the Bangladesh Supreme Court.
   According to the copy of the court order, when judge Mansur took his seat in the court room on Sunday, general secretary of the Narayanganj District Bar Association Sakhawat Hussain Khan restrained him from conducting the court proceedings. But the judge did not bring the matter to notice.
   The next day, Sakhawat, who is also a BNP leader, and three other lawyers, Bari Bhuiyan, Humayun Kabir and Mahbubur Rahman Masum, again interrupted him. The lawyers shouted against the judge, saying that he delivered some controversial verdicts in recent days. They threatened to boycott the judge if he did not leave the court immediately.
   The judge adjourned hearing for the day to avoid any untoward incident, fixed new date for the cases and left for his chamber in the court.

AT LEAST 50 people, including women and children, were injured in a clash between two groups of people at village Alampur under Baniachong upazila in Habiganj on Tuesday.
   The police said a conflict between Abdul Mannan and Sabaj Mia of the village was on for the last few days following beating up of a pet monkey of Mannan by the latter.
   Later, a committee was formed to arbitrate the matter. But at one stage of arbitration the two groups engaged in altercation and locked in the clash that injured 50.
   On information, the Habiganj and Baniachong police went to the spot and brought the situation under control.
   Of the injured, 32 were sent to Habiganj Sadar Hospital. Two of the injured.

A MUNSHIGANJ court Tuesday sentenced a person to life-term imprisonment for raping a minor girl about two years ago.
   According to the prosecution, Fazlel Haque of village Bahirmoch in Patuakhali raped a seven-year-old girl of Md Milan Sardar of village Rarikhal under Srinagar upazila on March 27, 2004 when she went to a market to buy rice. Later, local people found the girl with bleeding from her private parts.
   Munshiganj Women and Children Repression Control Tribunal judge Ali Mansur handed down the verdict.
   A BSS report from Jessore adds: A district court on the same day sentenced 12 persons to 10 years of imprisonment for committing robbery in 1999. The court also fined Tk 5,000 each, in default, to suffer six months more in jail.
   The convicts are Musa Gazi, Enamul Haque, Sabarat Mollah, Niran Ali, Yeasin Ali, Delwar Gazi, Rafiqul Islam, Hafizur Rahman, Masud Mollah, Akram Mollah, Yousuf Sardar and Siraj. Of them, only two, Siraj and Yeasin, are in the custody.
   The prosecution said on the night of June 12, 1999, the convicts entered the house of one Ikram Hossain at village Subharara under Abhainagar upazila of the district and looted valuables.
   Ikram filed a case and after investigation, the police filed charge sheet accusing 13 persons.
   Additional district and sessions judge Abdul Mannan Khan, however, acquitted the rest accused, Mababubur Rahman, as he was found innocent.