A. K. M. Zahirul Hoque is a justice of the
High Court Division
The High Court Division, Supreme Court of Bangladesh (), popularly known as High Court, is one of the two divisions of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, the other division being the Bangladesh Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Appellate Division. ...
of the
Bangladesh Supreme Court
Supreme Court of Bangladesh () is the highest court of law in the country. It is composed of the High Court Division and the Appellate Division, and was established by Part VI, Chapter I (Article 94) of the Constitution of Bangladesh, adopte ...
. He has been barred from his role following allegations of irregularities.
Early life
Zahirul Hoque was born on 31 January 1959.
He has a bachelors of science and another bachelors in law.
Career
Zahirul Hoque started his legal practice on 7 October 1984 in District Courts.
On 11 July 1990, Zahirul Hoque became a lawyer of the High Court Division and the Bangladesh Supreme Court on 27 December 2002.
Zahirul Hoque was appointed an Additional Judge of the High Court Division on 18 April 2010 by President M Zillur Rahman.
The swearing in ceremony of Zahirul Hoque and 14 other judges was not attended by judges of the Appellate Division in an unprecedented incident. He had previously served as the Additional Attorney General of Bangladesh.
In August, Hoque and Justice
Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain granted bail to
ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon, former state minister, in an extortion case.
Zahirul Hoque was made a permanent judge on 15 April 2012.
In August 2015, Zahirul Hoque and Justice
Mirza Hussain Haider stopped the move to transfer a domestic violence case against an army officer to military court.
They also sought an explanation on why Major General
Mijanur Rahman Khan letter to Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal of Tangail requesting the transfer should not be declared illegal.
In May 2017, Zahirul Hoque and Justice
Salma Masud Chowdhury asked the Officer-in-Charge of Ashulia station of Bangladesh Police to explain why he had handcuffed a student who was receiving treatment at Enam Medical Hospital after falling sick at a protest of students of
Jahangirnagar University
Jahangirnagar University (, abbreviated as JU; initially started as Jahangirnagar Muslim University; ) is a fully residential public university, public research university located in Savar Upazila, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was established in ...
.
Zahirul Hoque and Justice
Obaidul Hassan rejected the bail petition of former Prime Minister
Khaleda Zia
Begum Khaleda Zia (born August–September 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the prime minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006. She was the first female prime minister of Bangladesh and the second fema ...
.
In 2019, Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, after consulting with President Abdul Hamid, suspended Zahirul Hoque, Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury, and Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Haque of the High Court Division. Zahirul Hoque and Chowdhury were suspended for issuing an illegal order to a lower court to give a verdict in favor of MR Trading Company.
References
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Living people
Supreme Court of Bangladesh justices
1959 births