Hon'ble Retd. Chief Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed | |
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Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court | |
In office 1 April 2017 –15 March 2018 | |
Nominated by | J. S. Khehar |
Appointed by | Ram Nath Kovind |
Judge of Delhi High Court | |
In office 20 December 2002 –30 March 2017 | |
Nominated by | Gopal Ballav Pattanaik |
Appointed by | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
Personal details | |
Born | Shillong | 16 March 1956
Badar Durrez Ahmed (born 16 March 1956) was an Indian judge. He is former Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court and Judge of Delhi High Court. He has served as Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court twice. Ahmed is presently the Chairman of the Ghalib Institute.[ citation needed ]
Ahmed was born in 1956 in Shillong,Meghalaya,the son of Dr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed who was President of India (24 August 1974 –11 February 1977) [1] by his wife,Abida Begum,a lady from Haldoi. He is related to the royal family of Loharu and to the famous Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.
He is interested in computers and knows several computer programming languages including Assembly,C Basic,Visual Basic and dialects of Dbase (including Clipper) and has written two stand-alone accounting software packages for lawyers:ACT-C and ACT-S. He is a keen sportsman and played Cricket and Football for his school. He was member of the St Stephen's College Tennis Team and played Tennis and Squash for Trinity College,Cambridge,U.K.
Ahmed is married to Saba Durrez Ahmed (born on 2 February 1959),younger daughter of Nawab Sayyid Zulfikar Ali Khan Bahadur,Nawab of Rampur,by his wife Begum Noor Bano. The couple has one daughter and one son. [2]
Born on 16th March,1956 in Shillong (Meghalaya),he studied in St Edmund’s College,Shillong,(1962-1966) and St Columba’s High School,New Delhi (1966-1971). He graduated from St. Stephen’s College,Delhi in 1975 with a BA (Hons) Economics. He completed the Tripos in Economics from Trinity College,Cambridge in 1977 and was a Lecturer in Economics St Stephen's College from 1977 to 1979. [3] He enrolled as an advocate in 1980 and served in the chambers of Siddhartha Shankar Ray from 1980 to 1983. He practised independently between 1983 and 1986,and became a partner in the law firm "Lawyers Associated" in 1986,remaining in that position until 2002.
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