The Anti-Corruption Commission lawyer Khurshid Alam will not fight in court on behalf of the Inspection for Factories and Establishments Department in the labor law violation case against Dr Muhammad Yunus.

He took the decision as the Inspection for Factories and Establishments Department appointed prosecutor Adv Syed Haider Ali as its new lawyer.

Lawyer Khurshid Alam told this to media on Monday on the Supreme Court premises.

"I have been doing this case since the beginning. Not only in the labour court, but in the Appellate and High Court Divisions. I want to do the case alone."

Earlier on August 28, 18 staff of Grameen Telecom, who were working before 2006, filed separate cases against Dr Muhammad Yunus for not depositing their due five per cent of total profits in the fund.

Later, the labour court chairman Sheikh Merina Sultana set October 15 and 16 to appear Dr Ybus for explaining the issue.

Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) Inspector Arifuzzaman filed the case against Dr Yunus, Grameen Telecom Managing Director Ashraful Hasan, Board Directors Nurjahan Begum and Md Shahjahan on September 9, 2021, and the court summoned the four to appear before it by October 12, 2021.

According to the case documents, a team of the DIFE went on an inspection to Grameen Telecom and found violations of labour laws like not regularizing 101 staff, not establishing a welfare fund for the labourers and not depositing five per cent of total profits in the fund.