The incident took place immediately after the HC said that the statements of the opposition leader and Amini, chief of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote
... a political party in Bangladesh. In the 2001 elections the party won 2 out of 300 elected members in an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It has a focus on building an islamic state, and has used the madrassas to gain support...
(IOJ), on the constitution are similar to sedition.
The statements questioned their patriotism and no patriotic person can make such comments on the constitution.
Khaleda at the BNP-sponsored mass hunger strike last month stated that the amended constitution is nothing but Awami League's manifesto which will be thrown away, if BNP returned to power.
Amini reportedly told a meeting in the city's Lalbagh area on July 14 that the recently amended constitution will be thrown into the dustbin. Amar Desh, a Bangla daily, published the comment on the next day.
Based on the Amar Desh report, Shahriar Kabir, a writer-columnist, on July 20 filed the petition with the HC, seeking its directive on the government to take actions against Amini for making the comment.
Pro-BNP and pro-Awami League lawyers locked in a scuffle that continued for about half an hour leading to the throwing of the object, part of a printer, at the judge.
The object, however, did not reach the judges platform. It hit a ceiling fan and then fell on the floor of the courtroom.
The incident took place at one point of chaos inside the courtroom in the afternoon at the bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore.
The judges had summoned Amini to appear before the bench on August 2 to clarify his remark about the charter.
The IOJ leader appeared before the bench Tuesday morning following the court directive to explain his comment on the constitution.
Earlier, Justice Manik and Justice Tagore who were hearing the petition left the ejlash (courtroom) around noon amidst chaos by a sector of pro-BNP lawyers.
When presiding judge of the bench Justice Manik was passing an observation over a comment of
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, BNP chairperson, the BNP lawyers burst out into anger.
The BNP lawyer protested the observation of the presiding judge saying as Khaleda has no involvement in this case so the court can not pass any observation against her.
Since the pro-BNP lawyers did not stop shouting, the judges left the ejlash saying that it will continue passing order after a recess.
Talking to The Daily Star, Shahriar Kabir said the pro-BNP lawyers got furious at the courtroom after they told the court that the opposition leader had said that they would threw away the constitution if returned to power.
He said Amini went one step ahead to show his atrocities saying the constitution should be thrown into dustbin.
Shahriar Kabir expresses his apprehension that the constitution would be set on fire if the atrocities continue.
Shahriar Kabir claimed that he was also attacked in the courtroom during the chaos.
He said one has right to criticise the constitution but can not throw it into dustbin.