Badar Durrez Ahmed (born 16 March 1956) was an Indian judge. He is former Chief Justice of

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and

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. He has served as Acting Chief Justice of

twice. Ahmed is presently the Chairman of the Ghalib Institute.

Early and personal life

Ahmed was born in 1956 in

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, the son of Dr.

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (13 May 1905 – 11 February 1977) was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the President of India from 1974 to 1977. Born in Delhi, Ahmed studied in Delhi and Cambridge and was called to the bar from the Inner ...

who was

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(24 August 1974 – 11 February 1977) by his wife, Abida Begum, a lady from Haldoi. He is related to the royal family of

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and to the famous Urdu poet

Mirza Ghalib Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (27 December 179715 February 1869), commonly known as Mirza Ghalib, was an Indian poet. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets in the Urdu language, he also produced a significant body of work in Persian. Ghali ...

. Ahmed is married to Saba Begum (born on 2 February 1959), younger daughter of Nawab Sayyid Zulfikar Ali Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Rampur, by his wife Begum Noor Bano. The couple has one daughter and one son.

Career

Born on 16th March, 1956 in Shillong (Meghalaya), he studied in St Edmund’s College, Shillong, (1962-1966) and St Columba’s High School, New Delhi (1966-1971). He graduated from

St. Stephen’s College, Delhi St. Stephen's College is a constituent college of Delhi University. It awards both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Established in 1881, it is one of the oldest liberal arts and sciences colleges in India. The college has an acceptance r ...

in 1975 with a BA (Hons) Economics. He completed the Tripos in Economics from

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in 1977 and was a Lecturer in Economics St Stephen's College from 1977 to 1979. He enrolled as an advocate in 1980 and served in the chambers of

Siddhartha Shankar Ray Siddhartha Shankar Ray (20 October 1920 – 6 November 2010) was an Indian lawyer, diplomat and Indian National Congress politician from West Bengal. In his political career he held a number of offices, including Chief Minister of West Bengal ( ...

from 1980 to 1983. He practised independently between 1983 and 1986, and became a partner in the law firm "Lawyers Associated" in 1986, remaining in that position until 2002. In 2002, Badar Durrez Ahmed was appointed a judge of the

.delhihighcourt.nic.in He served in that position for fifteen years, before being appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir. He served as Chief Justice from 1 April 2017 to 16 March 2018 and retired after the latter date. During his eleven-month tenure as Chief Justice of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, he delivered a landmark judgment wherein he acquitted the accused Subhash Chander Sharma, who was sentenced to death under section 302 RPC and 498A RPC by the Sessions Judge, Jammu. Subhash Chander Sharma was pleading his own case in the High Court
The judgment
was dictated in open court on the same day.

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JUDGMENTS, Badar Durrez Ahmed
Living people Judges of the Delhi High Court 20th-century Indian judges Indian Sunni Muslims 1956 births People from Shillong Faculty of Law, University of Delhi alumni {{india-law-bio-stub