[Dhaka Tribune] 4:40am: The truck disappears from view and all lights on the Supreme Court premises are turned off at once. Only a few of the protesters remain on the street. The coppers have already disappeared from the scene.4:20am: The statue is laid down on the blue pickup truck, which starts moving towards the south side of the premises.
4:10am: Attorney General Mahbubey Alam tells Bangla Tribune that the statue of Lady Justice has been removed by instruction of the Chief Justice.
3:50am: The statue is completely removed from its spot and hoisted up by chain.
3:40am: Dhaka Tribune Photojournalist Mahmud Hossain Opu, who is in front of the Supreme Court, reports that protesters have announced a protest march for 11am that will begin from in front of Raju Bhashkorjo in Dhaka University and march to the Supreme Court.
3:40am: Our Correspondent Manik Miazee reports that Islamist groups are joyfully greeting the removal of the statue. One Islami Oikya Jote
... a political party in Bangladesh. In the 2001 elections the party won 2 out of 300 elected members in an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It has a focus on building an islamic state, and has used the madrassas to gain support...
supporter posted on Facebook saying: "Islami Oikya Jote Vice Chairman Mowlana Abul Hasnat Amini has thanked Prime Minister
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
for removing the idol from the Supreme Court premises.
"He said, the honourable prime minister has kept the promise she made in front of Alims at Ganabhaban."