Md. Ruhul Quddus (born 7 December 1962) is a Bangladeshi 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

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Early life

Ruhul Quddus was born on 7 December 1962.

Career

Ruhul Quddus completed his B.A. LL.B. and M.S.S. at

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 ...

. He was elected the General Secretary of the Rajshahi University Central Students Union. A case of murder was filed against him and others in November 1988 on the charge of killing a leader of the

Islami Chhatra Shibir Bangladesh Islami Chhatrashibir, commonly known as Chhatrashibir or Shibir, is an Islamic student organisation in Bangladesh. It was established in 1977 as the successor to the East Pakistani faction of Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba colloquially known ...

, the student wing of Islamist political party

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, at the university. Ruhul Quddus started working as a lawyer on 19 April 1993 and became a member of the

Bangladesh Bar Council Bangladesh Bar Council () is a statutory autonomous body in Bangladesh, established under the Legal Practitioners and the Bar Council Order, 1972. It is the licensing and Regulatory body for lawyers in Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Bar Council ensu ...

. On 29 September 1996, he became a lawyer of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court. On 15 January 2009, Ruhul Quddus became a lawyer of the Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court. He served as an advisor to

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and

Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rajshahi The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rajshahi is an autonomous organization, mainly responsible for holding two public examinations (Secondary School Certificate (Bangladesh), SSC & Higher Secondary School Certificate, HSC) and als ...

. In April 2010, the government sought to remove Ruhul Quddus from among those accused in the murder case, and appointed him an Additional Judge to the High Court Division. In an unprecedented move, Chief Justice

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declined to swear him in. Four months later, Ruhul Quddus was dropped from the murder case. Despite protests along party lines against Ruhul Quddus' appointment, citing his "controversial past", the next Chief Justice,

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, administered the oath of office to him in November. Ruhul Quddus was appointed Judge to the High Court Division in October 2012.

References

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