K. M. Zahid Sarwar is a Justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. [1] He is the former Deputy Attorney General of Bangladesh. [2]
Sarwar was born on 1 January 1971. [3] He has a bachelor's and master's in law from the University of Rajshahi. [3]
Sarwar became a lawyer of the district courts and High Court Division on 12 October 1995 and 30 October 1997, respectively. [3]
Sarwar was elected assistant secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association in 2008. [4]
From 9 February 2009 to 2019, Sarwar served as the Deputy Attorney General of Bangladesh. [3] He represented the state in the BDR mutiny trial. [5]
Sarwar became a lawyer of the Appellate Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court on 29 March 2018. [3]
Sarwar was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division on 21 October 2019. [3] [6]
In September 2021, Sarwar and Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam denied bail the managing director of Bashundhara Group, Sayem Sobhan Anvir, in a rape and murder case. [7] Sarwar and Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam granted bail to Jhumon Das who had been detained under a Digital Security Act for making a Facebook post on Mamunul Haque, leader of Hefajat-e-Islam, after he had spent more than six months in pretrial detention. [8] On 19 October 2021, Sarwar was appointed a permanent judge of the High Court Division by President Mohammad Abdul Hamid. [9] In September, Sarwar and Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam in a verdict declared that the lower courts violated the rules by placing Pori Moni in police custody multiple times for questioning. [10] [11] They criticized the conduct of the lower court judges in the case. [12] The magistrates of the lower courts apologized to the High Court bench for their actions. [13]
On 21 April 2022, Sarwar and Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif disposed 1501 cases in one day of hearings. [14]
In January 2023, Sarwar and Justice SM Emdadul Haque denied bail to a man accused in the Kalabagan O-level student rape and murder case. [15] [16]
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