Faisal Mahmud Faizee

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Faisal Mahmud Faizee
Justice of the High Court Division of Bangladesh
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NationalityBangladeshi
Profession Judge

Faisal Mahmud Faizee is a former Justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. [1] He resigned from the court over allegations of having faked his law degree.

Career

On 31 October 2004, Faizee was withdrawn from the High Court Division by Chief Justice Syed JR Mudassir Husain after newspaper reports emerged questioning his law degree. [2] [3] His father sued Bhorer Kagoj and Prothom Alo on contempt of court charges and won. [2] [4]

On 24 April 2005, the Bangladesh Bar Council cancelled the enrolment certificate of Faizee due to his recorded birth date not matching the birth date on his birth certificate. [2] [5] The decision was taken following a meeting of the council led by Barrister Rokanuddin Mahmud. [2] The council also condemned the inclusion of Faizee in the High Court Division bench despite the controversy over his degree. [2] In December 2005, the Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association called for Faizees removal due to disputes over his degree and receiving a reception from Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami activists in Chittagong. [6]

On 15 December 2006, Faizee sentenced former President of Bangladesh, Hussain Mohammad Ershad to two years imprisonment in a corruption case related to the purchase of 520 boats from Japan for relief operations after the 1989 Bangladesh floods. [7]

In 2007, the Supreme Judicial Council was created to investigate the charges against Faizee. [8] [9] The University of Chittagong had cancelled his law degree and those of few others after it found evidence of tampering grade sheets in March. [10] [11] He resigned on 12 July 2007, before conclusion of the investigation. [8]

Faizee is a member of the executive committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. [12]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Justice Faizee's advocate ship certificate cancelled, faces criminal case". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  3. ↑ "A Bangladeshi Judge Withdrawn from HC for Tampering with His Law Certificate - 2004-10-31". ভিওএ (in Bengali). 2004-10-31. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  4. ↑ Staff, C. P. J. (2005-03-21). "BANGLADESH". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  5. ↑ "Judge Faizee's Bar certificate cancelled". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  6. ↑ "SCBA requests President to rescind appointment of Justice Faisal Mahmud Faizee". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  7. ↑ "Ershad gets two-year jail term". DAWN.COM. 2006-12-15. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  8. 1 2 Sakib, Nazmus (13 March 2014). "SC exempts 5 in judge's certificate forgery case". Dhaka Tribune . Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  9. ↑ "SJC probes 4 SC judges in 38 years, Only one SC judge sacked, Two resigned, one found 'not guilty' - 35243.php-04-08". The Daily Observer. Archived from the original on 2023-08-31. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  10. ↑ "Bangladesh judge faces certificate tampering charges". Hindustan Times. 2007-03-28. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  11. ↑ "Judge Faizee skips office". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  12. ↑ "Tarikat in good shape, AL divided, BNP silent". bangladeshpost.net. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
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