Md. Ruhul Quddus

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The Honourable
Md. Ruhul Quddus
মোঃ রুহুল কুদ্দুস
Justice of the High Court Division of Bangladesh
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 November 2010
Personal details
Born (1962-12-07) 7 December 1962 (age 62)
NationalityBangladeshi
Alma mater University of Rajshahi
Profession Judge

Md. Ruhul Quddus (born 7 December 1962) is a Bangladeshi justice of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.

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Early life

Ruhul Quddus was born on 7 December 1962. [1]

Career

Ruhul Quddus completed his B.A. LL.B. and M.S.S. at University of Rajshahi. [2] [1] He was elected the General Secretary of the Rajshahi University Central Students Union. [1] A case of murder was filed against him and others in November 1988 on the charge of killing a leader of the Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Islamist political party Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, at the university. [3]

Ruhul Quddus started working as a lawyer on 19 April 1993 and became a member of the Bangladesh Bar Council. [1] On 29 September 1996, he became a lawyer of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court. [1]

On 15 January 2009, Ruhul Quddus became a lawyer of the Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court. [1] He served as an advisor to Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust and Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rajshahi. [1]

In April 2010, the government sought to remove Ruhul Quddus from among those accused in the murder case, and appointed him an Additional Judge to the High Court Division. [3] In an unprecedented move, Chief Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim declined to swear him in. [4] [5] Four months later, Ruhul Quddus was dropped from the murder case. [3] Despite protests along party lines against Ruhul Quddus' appointment, citing his "controversial past", the next Chief Justice, A.B.M. Khairul Haque, administered the oath of office to him in November. [6] [7]

Ruhul Quddus was appointed Judge to the High Court Division in October 2012. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Home : Supreme Court of Bangladesh". www.supremecourt.gov.bd. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  2. 1 2 "Annual Report 2016" (PDF). Supreme Court of Bangladesh. p. 47. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 "HC frees Ruhul Quddus of charges". The Daily Star. 24 August 2010.
  4. ↑ Sarkar, Ashutosh (19 April 2010). "Rare absence of SC judges marks oath". The Daily Star.
  5. ↑ Quadir, Fahimul. "Countries at the Crossroads 2011: Bangladesh". Freedom House .
  6. ↑ Sarkar, Ashutosh (5 November 2010). "Oath of 2 angers pro-BNP lawyers". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
  7. ↑ Bari, M. Ehteshamul (2016). "Supersession of the Senior-Most Judges in Bangladesh in Appointing the Chief Justice and the Other Judges of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court: A Convenient Means to a Politicized Bench". San Diego International Law Journal. 18 (33): 47. SSRN   2920380.


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