Md Jahurul Haque | |
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Commissioner Anti Corruption Commission | |
In office 10 March 2021 –29 October 2024 | |
Appointed by | President of Bangladesh |
President | Mohammad Abdul Hamid |
Chairman Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission | |
In office 31 January 2019 –4 December 2020 | |
Preceded by | Shahjahan Mahmood |
Succeeded by | Shyam Sunder Sikder |
Personal details | |
Born | Madarganj Upazila,Jamalpur District,East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh) | 5 December 1955
Alma mater | University of Rajshahi |
Profession | District and Sessions Judge |
Md Jahurul Haque is a former district and sessions judge who was the commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission [1] and former chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission. [2] [3] He is the former Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge.
Haque was born on 5 December 1955 in Jamalpur district,East Pakistan,Pakistan. [4]
Haque joined as the Munsef of the judicial cadre of Bangladesh Civil Service in 1983. [4]
In 2012,Haque indicted chairman of Ekushey Television Abdus Salam and its managing director Ashraful Alam on tax evasion charges. [5]
On 14 July 2014,Haque ordered the arrest of the top management of Destiny Group. [6] Haque presided over the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court in 2014. [7] He heard the hearing of the case against Muhammad Jasimuddin Rahmani. [7] He also held the hearing against former president Hussain Muhammad Ershad in a corruption case relating to the purchase of Rader in a case from 1992. [8] He placed indictments against Oishee Rahman over the murder of her parents;her father was a police officer and the incident was made adapted in web based TV show titled August 14. [9] [10] He had also sent Roads and Highways Department engineer Abdul Malek to seven years imprisonment. [11] He accepted charges against Moudud Ahmed,Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician,and Monjur Ahmed,his brother,on charges of land grab in Gulshan. [12]
In 2014,Haque retired as a sessions judge. [4]
Haque had served as the legal and licensing commissioner of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC). [13] He tried to collect nearly 85 billion taka from telecom operators in back taxes in 2019. [14] [15] [16]
Haque was appointed chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on 31 January 2019 replacing Dr. Shahjahan Mahmood. [17] [18] During his term,Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission blocked the official website of Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 2018 during national elections. [19] During his term,the ownership of cellphone towers was shifted from cellphone companies to independent contractors under a decision to not allow cell phone operators to own towers. [20] [21]
Haque was appointed as the commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission on 10 March 2021 with the rank of a judge of the High Court Division. [22] He considered investigating the additional secretary to the Health Services Division,Kazi Jebunnesa Begum,after she assaulted,Rozina Islam,a journalist of Prothom Alo and filed a case against her under Official Secrecy Act. [23]
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