Mahmudul Hoque is a justice of the

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of the

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Early life

Mahmudul Hoque was born on 13 December 1958. He has a bachelor's of law and master's of art from the

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Career

Mahmudul Hoque became a lawyer in the District Courts on 26 September 1984 and in the High Court Division on 8 January 1987. On 14 June 2012, Mahmudul Hoque was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division. In September, Mahmudul Hoque and Justice Rezaul Hasan dismissed a corruption case against Obaidul Karim, chairman of Orion Group, in which he was accused of brbing former prime minister Khaleda Zia to receive the contract for the Gulistan-Jatrabari flyover. In March 2013, Mahmudul Hoque and Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik refused the bail application of the chairman of Hall-Mark Group in 11 corruption cases. The court also ordered the arrest of officials of Hall-Mark Group and Sonali Bank involved in the scam. Mahmudul Hoque and Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik ordered police to detain Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami activists who forcefully converted

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activists after accusing them of being "Jewish" for supporting the Awami League. The Awami League activists were abducted by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami activists in Dinajpur District and forcefully made to pledge loyalty to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami through a conversion to Islam in a mosque. Mahmudul Hoque and Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik ordered the government to protect religious minorities from targeted attacks by activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and

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. The court also ordered the arrest of those involved in the attack on

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homes and temples in

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. Mahmudul Hoque was made a permanent judge of the High Court Division in June 2014 by President

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along with four other judges. The government choose not to make Justice ABM Altaf Hossain, who became a judge at the same time, permanent. In March 2016, Mahmudul Hoque and Justice Md Ruhul Quddus rejected four petitions against the corruption case against the vice-chairman of the

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, clearing the way for the case to proceed. Tarique Rahman was accused of taking a bribe relating to the 2006 death of Humayun Kabir Sabbir, director of the

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, to protect the accused. In April 2017, Mahmudul Hoque and Justice Farah Mahbub rejected a petition to halt the Cadet Pollen murder case from the five accused.

References

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