Faizee is likely to explain his position before Attorney General AF Hassan Ariff, ex-officio chairman of the council, at 11:30am.

Sources said the Bar Council, lawyers' regulatory body that issues enrolment certificate for legal practice, will also discuss similar allegations against some other lawyers.

Chief Justice Syed JR Mudassir Husain withdrew Faizee from the bench on Sunday in the wake of the allegation and lawyers' threat to boycott his court. He also thrust full responsibility of the bench upon Justice Ali Asgar Khan, Faizee's senior judge in the bench, as Asgar declined to sit with him in the court.

Two major dailies reported that Justice Faizee, one of the 19 additional judges whose appointment on August 23 drew sharp criticism, had tampered with his marks-sheet of LLB degree obtained from Chittagong Law College in 1989. An enquiry committee of Chittagong University has unearthed the fraud.

President of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Rokanuddin Mahmud, meanwhile, protested Law Minister Moudud Ahmed's Tuesday's comment that questioned why Rokan did not notice the certificate tampering when Faizee was his junior.

A senior lawyer does not need to check the certificate when he appoints a junior lawyer, the SCBA leader explained.

"Did his (Moudud) senior lawyer check his certificate when he worked as a junior lawyer? Or did he check the certificate of his junior when he appointed them?" Rokanuddin asked.