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S.M. Mozibur Rahman (born 12 June 1955) 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. ...
. He was appointed in 2015.


Early life

Mozibur Rahman was born on 12 July 1966. He completed a bachelor's of arts and another bachelor's of law.


Career

Mozibur Rahman joined as a district munsif on 22 February 1984. On 9 May 2007, Mozibur Rahman was promoted to district judge. On 12 February 2015, Mozibur Rahman was made an additional judge of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court. In January 2017, Mozibur Rahman and Justice Zinat Ara granted anticipatory bail to Afsan Chowdhury, professor of
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, in case filed
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. over a Facebook post. Mozibur Rahman became a permanent judge of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court on 12 February 2017. In November 2018, Mozibur Rahman and Justice A. K. M. Asaduzzaman granted bail to former prime minister
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in an arson case filed in Comilla in January 2015. Mozibur Rahman and Justice A. K. M. Asaduzzaman granted bail to the editor of ''Amar Desh'',
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, in a case over making derogatory remarks about Prime Minister
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and
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. Mozibur Rahman and Justice A. K. M. Asaduzzaman granted bail to former Awami League member of parliament Amanur Rahman Khan Rana on 14 March 2019 in the 2013 Faruk Ahmed murder case. On 8 March 2020, Mozibur Rahman and Justice A. K. M. Asaduzzaman cancelled the bail to G.K. Shamim, a well known contractor. In January 2022, Mozibur Rahman and Justice Md. Habibul Gani refused to grant bail to sister of journalist Kanak Sarwar in a
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case.


References

Living people 1955 births Supreme Court of Bangladesh justices {{Bangladesh-bio-stub