Imam Hossain Choudhury

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Imam Hossain Choudhury
ইমাম হোসেন চৌধুরী
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Chief Justice Dacca High Court
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NationalityBangladeshi
ProfessionJudge

Imam Hossain Choudhury was the chief justice of Dhaka High Court of East Pakistan. [1] [2]

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Early life

Choudhury was born in 1905 in Bhatiary, Chittagong District, East Bengal, British India. [3] He graduated from Chittagong Government College. [3]

Career

Choudhury was an additional judge of the High Court in 1951. [4]

In 1960, Justice Imam Hossain Choudhury succeeded Justice Mirza Ali Ispahani as the chief justice of East Pakistan. [5] He praised Rabindranath Tagore at a time when his works were under attack in East Pakistan. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Pakistan Law Reports: Dacca series. Government of East Bengal. 1961.
  2. ↑ Masud, Chowdhury A. T. M. (2005). Reminiscence of Few Decades and Problems of Democracy in Bangladesh. Academic Press and Publishers Library. p. 102. ISBN   978-984-08-0198-5.
  3. 1 2 Khan, Khan Tahawar Ali, ed. (1960). "Imam Hussain, Chowdhury". Biographical Encyclopedia of Pakistan (1960-61 ed.). Lahore: Biographical Research Institute, Pakistan. p. 108. OCLC   01774840.
  4. ↑ Judicature, East Pakistan (Pakistan) High Court of (1951). Report on the Administration of Civil Justice.
  5. ↑ Pakistan Affairs. Information Division, Embassy of Pakistan. 1960.
  6. ↑ Rahamāna, Phajalura (1990). Culture Conflicts in East Pakistan, 1947-1971: A Study in the Attitude of Bengali Muslim Intelligentsia Towards Bengali Literature and Islam. Sejuty Prokashani. p. 145.
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