Attorney General Mahbubey Alam has said seeking the court’s opinion to suspend jail sentence of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and release her from jail is not mandatory for the government.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam urges the chief justice to take action against the pro-BNP lawyers who made chaos in the courtroom forcing the Appellate Division judges to leave the room.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam instructs the deputy attorney generals and assistant attorney generals who were appointed before 2017 to resign from their offices.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam tells the Supreme Court that life imprisonment means jail sentence until the natural death of the convict as per the relevant provisions of the Penal Code.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam says the parliamentary membership of Sultan Mansur will not be cancelled as he neither resigned from the party nor voted against the party.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam yesterday said he still stands by his statement that “judiciary has seen degradation”.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam yesterday said it will not be difficult for the government to bring Tarique Rahman, BNP's senior vice chairman who is a convict in the August 21 grenade attack cases, back to the country.

The unseemly remarks on the apex court's judges made by former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha in his recently published autobiography have damaged the image of the judiciary, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said yesterday, terming Sinha's comments “unacceptable”.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam once again receives death threat allegedly for his role in the trials of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in different cases.

Quick steps will be taken for hearing Khaleda Zia’s appeal against her conviction in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam says.

The election to Bangladesh Bar Council, a statutory body regulating the country’s lawyers, is scheduled to be held on May 14 to elect its 14 executive members.

BNP acting Chairperson Tarique Rahman is not a citizen of Bangladesh as he has no passport, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam says.

Law minister Anisul Huq requests Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain to launch an inquiry into allegation of irregularities against some High Court judges and Supreme Court officials brought by the Attorney General Mahbubey Alam.

Citing irregularities in the judicial and administrative functions of the Supreme Court's High Court Division, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam yesterday said the “judiciary had seen degradation” in the last few years, and the image of the HC had changed.

A large number of court officials and employees are “involved in corruption”, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam says.

Bangladesh’s highest law officer, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam has once again received death threat, this time via letters saying he would be blown by grenades.

The government will file a petition with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court by the end of this month seeking review of its verdict that scrapped the 16th amendment to the constitution empowering parliament to remove SC judges for incapacity or misconduct.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam has received a death threat through a letter sent by one who described himself as an expelled Awami League leader.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam says all the three judges of the special High Court bench, currently pronouncing judgment on death reference and jail appeals in BDR carnage case, are unanimous on sentencing in the verdict.

Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha's resignation has relieved the judiciary of a burden, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said yesterday.