The Supreme Court has suspended Advocate Eunus Ali Akond for three months from his law practice for making derogatory comments about the country’s judiciary on Facebook.

The court also fined the lawyer Tk25,000 or 15-day imprisonment.

The full bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, passed the order virtually on Monday after the lawyer submitted his corrected unconditional apology.

Advocate Eunus physically appeared before the Appellate Division and court officials helped him join the contempt hearing.

On September 27, the Supreme Court suspended Advocate Eunus Ali Akond from practicing law for two weeks and asked him to explain why punitive action should not be taken against him.

On Sunday, the lawyer submitted his explanation with an unconditional apology and many parts of the explanation were discussed in a long hearing.

However, the seven member full bench of the Supreme Court Appellate Division expressed extreme disappointment over the contempt matter.

Attorney General AM Aminuddin, Bar Secretary Ruhul Kuddus Kajal, Mansurul Haque Chowdhury, Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, Abdul Matin Khasru, Zainul Abedin, AJ Mohammad Ali, and AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon joined the virtual hearing, among many other senior lawyers from the Supreme Court Bar Association.

Senior lawyers, Advocate Zainul Abedin and Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, requested the court to consider the unconditional apology, but also said Eunus’s explanation was not presented in the correct manner.

Eunus Ali Akond applied for two days’ time to submit another petition (explanation), but the court set Monday for judgment.

An Appellate Division bench led by Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain issued the order in a virtual hearing. The Appellate Division also ordered the Bangladesh Telephone Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to remove the derogatory post and block the lawyer’s Facebook account.

In another incident on August 12, the Supreme Court had summoned lawyer Syed Mamun Mahbub for posting derogatory comments about the chief justice on Facebook.

Later, the lawyer appeared before the court with an unconditional apology.

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