Khandaker Diliruzzaman is a justice of the

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of the

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Early life

Diliruzzaman was born on 23 March 1973. He has a bachelor's and master's in law from the

University of Rajshahi The University of Rajshahi (), also known as Rajshahi University (RU), is a public research university located in Rajshahi, Bangladesh. It is the second oldest and third largest university in Bangladesh. The university's 59 departments are or ...

Career

Diliruzzaman became an advocate of the District Courts on 12 December 1999. He became a lawyer of the High Court Division on 9 February 2001. Diliruzzaman was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division on 31 March 2018. On 4 September, Diliruzzaman and Justice Md Ruhul Quddus deferred the bail hearing of photographer

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in a case filed under the

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. Both the judges later expressed "embarrassment" at hearing the case and sent it to the chief justice to forward the case to another bench. This surprised the lawyers of Shahidul Alam,

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and

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, since the proceeding had started. In October 2019, Diliruzzaman and Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury asked the government not to harass Nobel Prize winner

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. On 30 May 2020, Diliruzzaman was made a permanent judge of the High Court Division by President

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. On 29 April 2021, Justice

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and Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman refused to hear an anticipatory bail petition of Sayem Sobhan Anvir, managing director of

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. In August, Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Diliruzzaman issued a

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contempt ruling against SM Tanvir Arafat, superintendent of Kushtia District police, for misbehaving with a judicial magistrate during election duty. On 14 December 2021, Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Diliruzzaman removed copyright protection for images of the

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and President

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. Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Diliruzzaman issued an order asking

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, mayor of

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, 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. Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Diliruzzaman issued an order asking

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to explain the custodial death of man in November 2021. Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Diliruzzaman issued a ruling on 7 February 2022 that stayed a lower court verdict cancelling the candidacy of

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in the election for the Bangladesh Film Artistes' Association. In November 2022, Diliruzzaman and Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty upheld the death penalty of three in the "sensational" Himadri Majumder Himu murder case from 2012. In July 2024, Diliruzzaman was appointed to a commission of inquiry into the deaths of protesters participating in the

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References

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