To avert violence, additional police will be deployed.

While pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum (JAF) blamed the pro-Awami League (AL) lawyers for Thursday's vandalism on the SC premises, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) alleged the vandalism was also a pre-planned event of the "writ petition staying conspiracy."

The forum announced agitation programme to shut down all kinds of SC activities from today until a contempt rule is issued and proper legal actions taken against those "who misguided and instigated lawyers to create anarchy on the court premises after the court order on Thursday in an act tantamount to contempt of court."

On the other hand, the SCBA also begins indefinite boycott of Chief Justice Syed JR Mudassir Husain's court from today in a bid to force him to resign, saying he has lost his neutrality and breached his oath of upholding the constitution by staying the writ petitions minutes before the handing down of ruling, "nakedly involving himself in a conspiracy" to re-elect the BNP-led four-party alliance "through a blue-print election."

The SCBA lawyers will gather at the SC around 9:00am today.

The JAF, meanwhile, will hold a rally around 1:15pm and will announce their next programme later. The JAF will also demonstrate at courts across the country today.

The immediate past government raised the retirement age limit of judges by two years to ensure Justice Mudassir remains chief justice during the caretaker government regime to accomplish their conspiracies, the SCBA leaders alleged at a meeting at the association's hall room.

"To avoid the aftermath of the stay order, the political leaders, who were involved in the conspiracy of getting the stay orders signed secretly by the chief justice, got further violence done by hired goons," said SCBA leader Abdul Mannan Khan.

Former SCBA president Mahbubey Alam claimed Khondkar Mahbubuddin Ahmed's statement about closing the SC proves they were closely involved with the process of the chief justice's passing of the stay order and the following vandalism.

Asking the judges not to sit in a court under the chief justice, he urged the Appellate Division judges to form benches and continue SC activities.

The SCBA leaders demanded arrest of Mahbubuddin and former law minister Moudud Ahmed for their involvement in getting the stay order and thus tainting the image of the SC. They also demanded withdrawal of BNP leaders' and lawyers' statement blaming SCBA leaders and senior jurists for Thursday's vandalism, saying they would otherwise take legal steps against them.

With the SCBA Vice-president Mizanur Rahman in the chair, former SCBA president Ozair Farooq, former general secretary Enayetur Rahim, Ali Haider Khan, Subrata Chowdhury, KM Saifuddin and Abdul Baset Majumder also addressed the meeting.

Meanwhile, at a press conference, JAF threatened not to let any court activities go on at the SC until a contempt rule is issued against those responsible for Thursday's vandalism.

Moudud Ahmed, Mahbubuddin and former state minister for law Shahjahan Omar said the attorney general (AG) did the right thing by rushing to the chief justice and got the stay order as the court did not pay heed to his repeated appeals for forming a larger bench to hear the petitions of such a significant case.

"As the highest law officer of the country, he rightly performed his duty," said Moudud.

He said they are in the bloc of the caretaker government but they (pro-AL leaders) are against it. "It is normal that we would move for the chief adviser of the caretaker government since we're in his bloc," he added.

Asked why they are defending the AG, Moudud replied: "It is because both he and we are working to uphold the constitution."

Opposing Dr Kamal Hossain's terming the chief justice's stay order as unprecedented, Mahbubuddin, who broke down in tears at a stage, put examples of two stay orders delivered immediately before the verdict. "The chief justice has the jurisdiction of staying any case at any stage," he added.

"The false remarks the pro-Awami League lawyers have made regarding the constitutional and legal functions of the chief justice and the attorney general are tantamount to contempt of court," said Mahbubuddin.

About carrying the chief justice's stay orders by the AG himself like a "messenger", he said, "It was due to time constraint."

Former telecommunications minister Aminul Huq, BNP Law Secretary Zainul Abedin, JAF Member-Secretary Shah Khasruzzaman, government law officers and public prosecutors were present at the press conference.