Dhaka, July 28 - The Bangladesh capital, which is used to myriad street protests, witnessed an unprecedented demonstration Monday by over a hundred lower court judges.

Arriving in several buses, they staged a vociferous rally in front of the Law Ministry at the Central Secretariat saying they had not been consulted before the government decided to bifurcate the law ministry that employs them.

Organised under the banner of the Bangladesh Judicial Service Association, they had no passes and had sought no prior appointment. They protested when the guards tried to frisk them, citing security rules.

A large posse of police and the elite Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) confronted them.

The judges allege that the Law Secretary Kazi Habibul Awal called the force to 'humiliate' them.

Now they want his removal.

'That is our main demand,' association secretary general, district judge Mohammed Shahjahan, told New Age newspaper.