DHAKA: The government has appointed 25 lawyers of the Supreme Court as assistant attorney generals.

The law ministry on Thursday (Oct 19) issued a notification in this regard. 

The new assistant attorney generals are: Mia Sirajul Islam, Anjuman Ara Begum, Najma Afreen, Mafij Uddin, Rokeya Akhter, Md Mizanur Rahman, Abantee Nurul, Mohammad Saiful Alam, Mahfuza Begum Haida, Fatema Rashid, Syeda Sabnab Mustari, Md Towfiq Sajaowar, Kalipodo Mridha, Md Altaf Hossain Amani, Md Hatem Ali, Muhammad Shaheen Mirdha, Ali Akbar Khan, Md Selim Azad, Aleya Khandaker, Marufa Akhter, AKM Alamgir Parvez Bhuiyan, Jayedi Hasan Khan, Muhammad Mahfuzur Rahman, Kazi Bashir Ahmed and Sabina Parveen.

With these new appointments, the numbers of assistant attorney generals now stand at 121. Earlier on June 12, 23 assistant attorney generals were relieved from duty and later the government appointed 27 lawyers.

BDST: 2040 HRS, OCT 19, 2017
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