Md Mostafizur Rahman 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 ...
.
Early life
Mostafizur Rahman was born on 13 February 1959.
He has a Bachelor of 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
Mostafizur Rahman became a lawyer in the district court on 26 September 1984.
Mostafizur Rahman joined the judicial branch of the
Bangladesh Civil Service
Bangladesh Civil Service (), popularly known by its acronym BCS, is the civil service of Bangladesh. Civil service in the Indian subcontinent originated from the Imperial Civil Service which was the elite higher civil service of the British Empir ...
on 15 January 1985 as a munsif.
On 8 September 2011, Mostafizur Rahman was promoted to district judge.
Mostafizur Rahman was alleviated to an additional judge of the High Court Division on 31 May 2018.
In September, Mostafizur Rahman and Justice Borhanuddin ordered the government of Bangladesh to provide first class division status to photographer
Shahidul Alam
Shahidul Alam (born 1955) is a Bangladeshi media institution builder, a photojournalist, public speaker, storyteller, writer, blogger, curator, and educationist.
Alam founded Drik Picture Library in 1989, Pathshala in 1998, the Chobi Mela Inter ...
in prison.
Mostafizur Rahman and Justice M Enayetur Rahim doubled the sentence of former prime minister Khaleda Zia from five to ten years in the
Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case. In July 2019, Mostafizur Rahman and Justice M Enayetur Rahim ordered judges of the lower court not to add doctor or barrister before their name when writing the verdict calling its usage an example of “
superiority complex
A superiority complex is a defense mechanism that develops over time to help a person cope with feelings of inferiority. The term was coined by Alfred Adler (1870–1937) in the early 1900s, as part of his school of individual psychology.
Indivi ...
”. On 8 August 2019, Mostafizur Rahman and
Sheikh Md. Zakir Hossain denied bail to Aysha Siddika Minni who had been arrested on charges of being involved in the murder of her husband, Rifat Sharif.
President
Md Abdul Hamid made Mostafizur Rahman a permanent judge of the High Court Division on 30 May 2020. On 10 December 2020, Mostafizur Rahman and Justice
M Enayetur Rahim
M Enayetur Rahim is a retired justice on the Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court. Earlier, he was justice of the High Court Division, Bangladesh Supreme Court. He also served as the chairman of the International Crimes Tribunal 1. He i ...
granted bail to Dilip Khalko, a convicted rapist, after he married the victim, who was his cousin and 14 when she became pregnant after rape. Mostafizur Rahman and Justice M Enayetur Rahim questioned why
Md Muksodur Rahman Patwary, secretary of the
Ministry of Land
The Ministry of Land (; ''Bhūmi mantraṇālaẏa'') is the government ministry of Bangladesh responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on lands, cadastre and other subjects which come under its purview.
Agencies
* Land Appea ...
, was still holding his office after he admitted illegally using government cars, hiding car loan information and withdrawing 50 thousand BDT as car allowance, and defended himself by saying other government officials were doing the same.
Mostafizur Rahman and Justice M Enayetur Rahim granted bail to cartoonist
Ahmed Kabir Kishore
Ahmed Kabir Kishore (; born 30 May 1974) is a Bangladeshi cartoonist. He was accused of drawing cartoons and held in pre-trial detention in Bangladesh under the country's infamous Digital Security Act for 10 months since May 2, 2020. Cartoonists ...
in March 2021 after ten months in pretrial detention in a
Digital Security Act
The Digital Security Act, 2018, was a digital security law in Bangladesh. This act was passed with the aim of preventing the spread of racism, sectarianism, extremism, terrorist propaganda, and hatred against religious or ethnic minorities throug ...
case.
He co-accused writer
Mushtaq Ahmed died in custody.
On 26 August 2021, Mostafizur Rahman and
M Enayetur Rahim
M Enayetur Rahim is a retired justice on the Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court. Earlier, he was justice of the High Court Division, Bangladesh Supreme Court. He also served as the chairman of the International Crimes Tribunal 1. He i ...
in a verdict declared that the
Anti-Corruption Commission does not have the authority to freeze suspect's assets or bank accounts without the explicit authorization of the courts.
The verdict was given in a petition filed by a pharmacy owner in
Cox's Bazar District
Cox's Bazar District () is a district in the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh.
It is named after Cox's Bazar town. It is located south of Chittagong. Cox's Bazar is also known by the names ''Panowa'' ("yellow flower") and ''Palongkee''. T ...
whose accounts in
Social Islami Bank Limited were frozen on the orders of Md Sharif Uddin, assistant director of the Anti-Corruption Commission in Chittagong.
In September 2021, Mostafizur Rahman and Justice M Enayetur Rahim suspended the bail of deputy inspector general Partha Gopal Banik and criticized Special Judge Court-5's Judge Md Iqbal Hossain for granting a secret bail to Banik, who had arrested with 8 million BDT from his home. It sought an explanation from the judge. Mostafizur Rahman and Justice M Enayetur Rahim rejected a petition that called for the Bangladesh High Court to direct the government to protect private phone conversations from being intercepted and recorded illegally on 29 September 2021. In November, Mostafizur Rahman and Justice M Enayetur Rahim ordered the killing of elephants in Bangladesh and stop encroachment on elephant habitats.
References
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Living people
Supreme Court of Bangladesh justices
1959 births