The striking Supreme Court judges Thursday called off their court boycott conditionally as they stuck to their demand for legal actions against the vandals who ran riot through the apex court''s precincts on November 30, reports UNB.

Registrar Fazlul Karim said the decision came from a meeting of the judges held in camera this afternoon with Chief Justice Syed JR Mudassir Husain in the chair, after three days of disruption of judicial function.

"Considering the miseries of the people, the judges of both divisions of the Supreme Court would return to their courtrooms from December 10," the SC registrar said.

The highest judiciary of the country remained dysfunctional for the third consecutive day today, with the judges sticking out for apologies by the Supreme Court Bar Association and the Bar Council, a statutory body regulating the lawyers, for the vandalism, following an order of stay from the Chief Justice.

The stay stalled the proceedings of writs challenging legality of the President holding the office of Chief Advisor of the caretaker government.

Minutes before a High Court division bench was going to issue rule on the Public Interest Litigation writ petitions, filed by political leaders of the 14-party combine and some rights groups, the order of stay was issued.

Meanwhile, Sammilita Ainjibi Samonnay Parishad (SASP), a conglomerate of various lawyers fora, in a meeting held in the SC bar hall room condemned the filing of sedition case against some leading lawyers, including Dr Kamal Hossain, M Amir-Ul Islam and Rokanuddin Mahmud, in connection with the November 30 violence.

They demanded immediate withdrawal of the case filed against them terming it false. "It''s a bid to cover up the truth of the incident," the meeting noted.

Presided over by former SCBA president Mahbubey Alam, the meeting urged the boycotting judges to return to their courtrooms for the sake of justice-seekers.

The meeting resolved that if their demands were not met, they, along with justice-seekers, would lay a siege to Bangabhaban on Sunday at 11 am.

Different professional groups, including the teachers of Dhaka University, expressed their solidarity with the programmes of the lawyers.

Deputies (government law officers) of the Attorney General (AG), appointed on ''political considerations'' during the BNP-led 4-party alliance government, today staged a five-hour token hunger strike on the ground floor of the newly constructed multistoried AG building in protest against the November 30 vandalism in the Supreme Court compound.

On the other hand, clerks of lawyers continued sit-in demonstrations against implicating their associates in the sedition case.