The copies of the complaint against Joint District Judge Atiqur Rahman will also be sent to the chief justice, the law minister and the law secretary, said Al Mahmud, general secretary of the bar council.

The decision in this regard was taken at a meeting of the bar council held on June 12 with its President Meer Iqbal in the chair.

Speakers at the meeting also said that the Pabna District Bar Council also brought similar charges against Judge Atiqur Rahman when he was serving in Pabna district earlier.

When contacted, Judge Atiqur Rahman refuted the allegations, saying that the lawyers are angry at him as he dismissed a Tk 10 crore defamation suit filed by the lawyers against the deputy commissioner.

In this regard, the council leaders said they had filed a petition with the district judge's court, praying for transfer of the case from Rahman's court as they feared they would not get justice.

But Judge Rahman dismissed the case despite the district judge's instruction to transfer it to another court, they said.

Regarding similar corruption charges brought by the lawyers in Pabna, Judge Rahman said the Pabna Bar Council went against him because he had a misunderstanding with a senior lawyer.