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Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury

Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury is a retired judge of the Bangladesh High Court.[1]

Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury
Justice of the High Court Division of Bangladesh
Personal details
Born (1953-01-09) January 9, 1953 (age 71)
NationalityBangladeshi
ProfessionJudge

Early life

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Chowdhury was born on 9 January 1953 in Sylhet, East Pakistan.[2] completed his law degree, bachelor's, and master's in art from the University of Dhaka.[3]

Career

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On 17 March 1982, Chowdhury became an assistant judge in the judicial service of the Bangladesh Civil Service.[3]

On 1 March 1998, Chowdhury was promoted to district and district and session judge.[3]

On 23 August 2004, Chowdhury was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division.[3]

Chowdhury became a permanent judge on 23 August 2006.[3]

Barrister Rafique Ul Huq shouted and cursed at Chowdhury in a hearing.[4] Chowdhury and Justice Syed AB Mahmudul Huq summoned Rafique following a contempt of court petition against him following the outburst.[4] In March 2009, Chowdhury and Justice Syed AB Mahmudul Huq granted bail to Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky son of Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky in a defamation case filed by ASM Hannan Shah.[5] Chowdhuy and Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed heard a petition challenging the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord filed by a Bengali settler in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and Bangladesh Jammat e Islami lawyer.[6] Chowdhury and Syed AB Mahmudul Huq granted bail 199 students of University of Rajshahi and activists of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir in a case over assaulting a Bangladesh Chhatra League leader.[7] They granted bail to 24 Bangladesh Chhatra League activist in a case over the murder of a leader of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir.[8]

In May 2012, Chowdhury granted anticipatory bail to 30 Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians including Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.[9]

Chowdhury and Justice Md Ashraful Kamal scrapped a provision of the Anti Corruption Commission act which curtailed the independence of the commissioners in 2015.[10] He and Justice Md Ashraful Kamal issued a split verdict challenging the parliamentary membership of Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya who had been convicted in a corruption case.[11] He asked Maya for an explanation while Kamal rejected the petition.[11]

In April 2016, the Bangladesh Supreme Court to issue a verdict on the legality of Dhaka Metropolitan Police collecting information on tenants in Dhaka.[12] In March the court declared the collection legal and dismissed the petition.[13]

In October 2018, Chowdhury gave a split verdict with Justice Ashraful Kamal on a petition challenging the "fictitious" case filed by the government of Bangladesh against politicians of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.[14] Chowdhury sought an explanation from the government why it should not be declared illegal while Kamal said the cases could not be called fictitious and should be properly investigated.[14] Chowdhury and Justice Md Ashraful Kamal asked the government to take action to prevent unnecessary C-sections.[15] Chowdhury and Justice J. B. M. Hassan stopped the recruitment exam of four state owned banks.[16] Chowdhury and Justice Md Ashraful Kamal asked the government to take against members of Bangladesh Police for trading Ya ba in Cox's Bazar District.[17] Chowdhury and Justice Md Ashraful Kamal asked the government to collect taxes from Facebook and Google.[18]

Chowdhury and Justice Md Ashraful Kamal in a verdict recognized Turag river as a living entity and ordered the eviction of encroachers.[19][20] The verdict scrapped a lease by A. K. Azad of Ha-Meem Group on the banks of the river by Gazipur administration and noted river encroachers cannot contest elections.[19] In August 2019, ordered Chowdhury to finish the trial against Shahidul Alam, founder of Drik Gallery who had been arrested for spreading rumours, and which had been halted following a petition.[21] Chowdhury and Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman asked the government not to harass Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.[22]

On 8 January 2020, Chowdhury retired from the High Court Division.[3] He was appointed chairman of Bangladesh Industrial Finance Company Limited by Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar of the High Court Division in January 2021.[23][24]

Chowdhury was appointed chairman of Destiny Group on 1 September 2022 on an order of Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar of the High Court Division.[25]

Bibliography

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  • Maintainability of Writ Petition : An Appraisal[26]

References

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  1. ^ Chowdhury, JusticeMoyeenul Islam (2022-02-05). "Importance of autopsy report in the administration of criminal justice". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  2. ^ "Justice Moyeenul goes on retirement". The New Nation. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury retires today". The Business Standard. 2020-01-08. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  4. ^ a b "Contempt rule on barrister Rafique". The Daily Star. 2009-02-26. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  5. ^ "HC grants bail to Irad Siddiky". The Daily Star. 2009-03-18. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  6. ^ "HC appoints 2 amici curiae on CHT issue". The Daily Star. 2009-10-19. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  7. ^ "HC grants bail to 199 RU Shibir activists". The Daily Star. 2009-03-25. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  8. ^ "HC grants bail to 24 RU BCL men". The Daily Star. 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  9. ^ "Law and Our Rights". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  10. ^ "HC scraps a provision of ACC law". The Daily Star. 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  11. ^ a b "Split order on Maya's legitimacy as MP". The Daily Star. 2015-08-17. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  12. ^ "DMP info collection: SC wants decision on legality by May 31". The Daily Star. 2016-04-07. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  13. ^ "Writ over tenant info collection rejected". jagonews24.com. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  14. ^ a b "HC gives split order on legality of recent 'fictitious' cases". The Independent. Dhaka. Archived from the original on 2018-10-11. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  15. ^ "Formulate policy to tackle unnecessary C-sections: HC". Kaler Kantho (in Bengali). Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  16. ^ "HC postpones recruitment test in state-run banks". Daily Sun. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  17. ^ "HC rule on action against police officers for selling yaba". Bangla Tribune. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  18. ^ "Realise revenues from Google, Facebook: HC". The Daily Star. 2018-04-13. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  19. ^ a b "Land Grabbers Can't Contest Election, Seek Loans, Bangladesh Court Rules". The Wire. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  20. ^ "Text of HC verdict declaring Turag 'juristic person' released". bangladeshpost.net. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  21. ^ "Probe into Shahidul Alam case to remain on hold". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  22. ^ "HC asks govt not to harass Prof Yunus". The Daily Star. 2019-10-29. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  23. ^ "Board of Directors – Bangladesh Industrial Finance Company Limited". Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  24. ^ "Bangladesh Bank high officials harbour financial thugs: HC". New Age. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  25. ^ "Destiny 2000 Ltd board reconstituted with Justice Moyeenul Islam as chairman - National". The Daily Observer. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  26. ^ "Maintainability of Writ Petition : An Appraisal - Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury". www.rokomari.com. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
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