Khandaker Diliruzzaman is a justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court.
Khandaker Diliruzzaman | |
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Justice of the High Court Division of Bangladesh | |
Personal details | |
Born | March 23, 1973 |
Nationality | Bangladeshi |
Profession | Judge |
Early life
Diliruzzaman was born on 23 March 1973.[1] He has a bachelor's and master's in law from the University of Rajshahi.[1]
Career
Diliruzzaman became an advocate of the District Courts on 12 December 1999.[1] He became a lawyer of the High Court Division on 9 February 2001.[1]
Diliruzzaman was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division on 31 March 2018.[1] On 4 September, Diliruzzaman and Justice Md Ruhul Quddus deferred the bail hearing of photographer Shahidul Alam in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology Act, 2006.[2] Both the judges later expressed "embarrassment" at hearing the case and sent it to the chief justice to forward the case to another bench.[3] This surprised the lawyers of Shahidul Alam, Shahdeen Malik and Sara Hossain, since the proceeding had started.[3]
In October 2019, Diliruzzaman and Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury asked the government not to harass Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.[4]
On 30 May 2020, Diliruzzaman was made a permanent judge of the High Court Division by President Mohammad Abdul Hamid.[5]
On 29 April 2021, Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman refused to hear an anticipatory bail petition of Sayem Sobhan Anvir, managing director of Bashundhara Group.[6] In August, Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Diliruzzaman issued a sua sponte contempt ruling against SM Tanvir Arafat, superintendent of Kushtia District police, for misbehaving with a judicial magistrate during election duty.[7][8] On 14 December 2021, Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Diliruzzaman removed copyright protection for images of the Bangladesh Liberation War and President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.[9] Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Diliruzzaman issued an order asking Zahangir Alam, mayor of Gazipur, why contempt of court proceedings should not begin against him for not obeying a 2018 court order that asked him not to disturb the property of the petitioner, Ashraf Uddin Ahmed.[10] Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Diliruzzaman issued an order asking Rangpur Metropolitan Police to explain the custodial death of man in November 2021.[11]
Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Diliruzzaman issued a ruling on 7 February 2022 that stayed a lower court verdict cancelling the candidacy of Zayed Khan in the election for the Bangladesh Film Artistes' Association.[12] In November 2022, Diliruzzaman and Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty upheld the death penalty of three in the "sensational" Himadri Majumder Himu murder case from 2012.[13]
In July 2024, Diliruzzaman was appointed to a commission of inquiry into the deaths of protesters participating in the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement.[14]
References
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