Nazrul Islam Chowdhury | |
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Justice of the High Court Division of Bangladesh | |
Assumed office 2001 | |
Personal details | |
Nationality | Bangladeshi |
Profession | Judge |
Nazrul Islam Chowdhury is a retired Justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court.[1][2]
In 2001, Chowdhury was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division.[3]
In January 2003, Chowdhury and Justice M A Aziz declared the detention of Tofail Ahmed, a politician of the Awami League, who was arrested in December 2002.[4] On 3 July 2003, Chowdhury was appointed a permanent judge of the High Court Division.[3]
In May 2004, the Chief Justice nominated Chowdhury to the selection committee formed to pick the commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission.[5]
In September 2007, Chowdhury and Justice Ataur Rahman Khan rejected an appeal to squash the MiG-29 fighter planes corruption case against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.[6]
In August 2011, Chowdhury and Justice Anwarul Haque expressed embarrassment and unwillingness to hear the bail hearing in a case against 13 lawyers.[7] The lawyers were accused of preventing police from discharging their duties.[7] The lawyers had created chaos in a court room after a judge observed in a hearing against Fazlul Haque Amini that some comments of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia was seditious and quested her patriotism.[7]
In February 2016, Chowdhury stopped representing Mir Quasem Ali, a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami politician who had been accused of committing war crimes in the Bangladesh Liberation War.[1]