An assistant commissioner was stand-released yesterday after punishing a senior lawyer through a mobile court over a trifling matter on Tuesday.

The lawyer is Binod Bihari, 60, a member of the Dinajpur Bar Association.

The incident at the Upazila Land Office of Birganj has triggered widespread rage among the lawyers in Dinajpur.

The incident took place around 11:30am on Tuesday at the office of Biroda Rani Roy, AC-land of Birganj.

Binod said he had gone to the land office to take part in the hearing of a case against his client Md Saheb Ali.

Introducing himself, he entered the office room of the AC-land and sought her permission to sit in a chair. But the assistant commissioner asked him to get out of her office, he alleged.

The lawyer said he introduced himself again and sought her permission to take part in the hearing on behalf of his client.

But the assistant commissioner allegedly acted even more rudely and asked him to get out of her office despite repeated requests from his client. At one stage, the assistant commissioner allegedly said she would not hear the case if the lawyer did not leave.

The elderly lawyer said he remained in the office room as he thought leaving would be further embarrassing for him. At this stage, the assistant commissioner, also an executive magistrate, conducted a mobile court against the lawyer and fined him Tk 500.

The mobile court in the verdict said the lawyer would have to go to jail for a day if he failed to pay the fine.

Binod said he paid the fine and came out of the office to share the incident with fellow lawyers of the district Bar. His colleagues informed the matter to JS Whip Iqbalur Rahim, lawmaker from Dinajpur-3 constituency, and Deputy Commissioner Mir Khairul Alam.

The AC-land also verbally insulted Binod, said Advocate Nurul Islam, who was present there as the lawyer of Khairul Islam, against whom Saheb Ali was fighting the case.