Md. Ashraful Kamal | |
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 Md. Ashraful Kamal at the Dubai Future Forum (2024) | |
| Justice of the High Court Division of Bangladesh | |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Profession | Judge |
Md. Ashraful Kamal is a Justice in the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. [1] [2]
Ashraful Kamal was born on 3 November 1964. [3] He did his bachelor's degree in law and masters in commerce from the University of Dhaka. [3]
Ashraful Kamal started his legal practice on 30 April 1994. [3] He became a lawyer of the High Court Division on 26 September 1996. [3]
Ashraful Kamal became a lawyer of the Bangladesh Supreme Court on 24 August 2010. [3] He was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division on 12 December. [3]
On 10 December 2012, Ashraful Kamal was made a permanent Judge of the High Court Division. [3]
Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Ashraful Kamal scrapped a provision of the Anti Corruption Commission act which curtailed the independence of the commissioners in 2015. [4] He and Justice Chowdhury issued a split verdict challenging the parliamentary membership of Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya who had been convicted in a corruption case. [5] Chowdhury asked Maya for an explanation while Ashraful Kamal rejected the petition. [5]
In September 2014, Ashraful Kamal, alongside Justice Md. Ashfaqul Islam superseded the trademark rights of a previously existing company over the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) according to international law. [6]
In March 2016, Ashraful Kamal, Justice Naima Haider, and Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque rejected a petition that challenged the making of Islam the state religion of Bangladesh in 1988. [7]
Ashraful Kamal and Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury ordered the government of Bangladesh to collect taxes from Google. [8] In October 2018, Ashraful Kamal gave a split verdict with Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury on a petition challenging the "fictitious" case filed by the Government of Bangladesh against politicians of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party. [9] Chowdhury sought an explanation from the government why it should not be declared illegal while Ashraful Kamal said the cases could not be called fictitious and should be properly investigated. [9]
In February 2019, Ashraful Kamal and Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury issued a 17-point verdict on protecting rivers of Bangladesh such as preventing those involved in illegal occupation of river bank from receiving loans or standing for elections. [10] [11] [12] Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Ashraful Kamal in a verdict recognized Turag river as a living entity and ordered the eviction of encroachers. [13] [14] The verdict scrapped a lease by A. K. Azad of Ha-Meem Group on the banks of the river by Gazipur administration. [13] Ashraful Kamal and Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury asked the government to take action to prevent unnecessary C-sections in June 2019. [15]
In June 2023, Ashraful Kamal upheld the five-year jail sentence of Md Bazlur Rashid, Deputy Inspector General of Prison, 31.4 million BDT corruption case. [16]