Tariq ul Hakim is a retired justice of the
Supreme Court of Bangladesh
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.
Early life
Justice Tariqul Ul Hakim son of a diplomat and third generation High Court Justice in Bangladesh, after his father Justice
Maksum-ul-Hakim former ambassador and justice of the Bangladesh High Court and his maternal grandfather
Justice Amin Ahmed former Chief Justice of East Pakistan.
Hakim completed his legal education, postgraduate law degree from the UK and was called to Bar of England and Wales from
Gray's Inn
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.
Career
In August 2004, Hakim and Justice
Abdul Matin ordered the government to release thousands of prisoners detained without a trial, described in the verdict as a violation of prisoners constitutional rights.
Hakim and Justice
Farah Mahbub granted bail in November 2008 to former Prime Minister
Moudud Ahmed
Moudud Ahmed (; 24 May 1940 – 16 March 2021) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician. He was a standing committee member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Ahmed was elected as a Jatiya Sangsad member five times from the Noakhali-1 and Noak ...
in the Fixed Deposit Receipt embezzlement case. On 15 September 2008, bombs were thrown at the official residence of Hakim in judges' complex in Kakrail, Dhaka.
On 11 October, bombs were thrown at the official residence of another judge, Justice
Sharif Uddin Chaklader, in the complex.
Following which, Justice
Md Imman Ali and Justice
Md Ashfaqul Islam sought an investigative report on the incidents from the government.
In May 2009, Hakim and Justice
Zinat Ara
Zinat Ara (born March 15, 1953) is the third female judge in Bangladesh. She is a former justice of the Appellate Division. She was the third female judge in the High Court Division and the second female judge in the Appellate Division. In 2024, t ...
accepted the petition by former Prime Minister
Khaleda Zia
Begum Khaleda Zia (born August–September 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the prime minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006. She was the first female prime minister of Bangladesh and the second fema ...
challenging the government cancellation of the allocation of her house in
Dhaka Cantonment
Dhaka Cantonment () is a cantonment located in the northern part of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The headquarters of the Bangladesh Army and Air Force are situated within the cantonment. The cantonment is located on the north-east end of Dhaka.
History ...
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The Court adjourned the trial after the government assured it that Zia wouldn't be evicted before the trial started.
Justice
Kamrul Islam Siddiqui and Justice
M. Azizul Haque, from two separate benches, refused to hear the case as they felt "embarrassed".
In June 2010, Hakim and Justice
Soumendra Sarker ordered the government to not torture
Mahmudur Rahman
Mahmudur Rahman (; born 6 July 1953), is the owner and editor of the Bengali daily Amar Desh in Bangladesh also an author, engineer and businessman. A strong critic of the Awami League government since 2008, he has faced over 50 defamation and ...
, editor of
Amar Desh
''Amar Desh'' (; ) is a Bengali-language daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Dhaka since 2004. ''Amar Desh'' provides news about Bangladesh from local and regional perspectives and covers international news. ''Amar Desh'' is considere ...
, in custody.
In June 2012, Hakim was assigned to hearing cases regarding bank loan disputes, appeals to labour court verdicts, and VAT and customs disputes.
In November 2016, Hakim and Justice Md Faruque asked the government to explain why its failure to locate a government doctor of the
Directorate General of Health Services, Muhammed Iqbal Mahmud, should not be declared negligence.
Mahmud was seen in security footage being forcefully loaded into a microbus by seven or eight people in Dhaka.
In June 2017, Mahmud was found in Laxmipur District with his eyes tied nearly eight months after his abduction.
In March 2019, Hakim and Justice
Md Shohrowardi in a verdict ordered the government to not prevent Afroza Abbas, president of
Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal and wife of
Mirza Abbas, from traveling outside of Bangladesh. In July, Hakim and Justice Md Shohrowardi ordered the government to not hinder Imran H. Sarker from travelling outside of Bangladesh. Hakim and Justice Md Shohrowardi ordered the government to take action to prevent H Industries from removing groundwater in
Patiya Upazila
Patiya () is an upazila of Chattogram District in Chattogram Division, Bangladesh.
History
During the British rule, a police station(thana) was established in Patiya in 1845. It was upgraded to an ''upazila'' in 1984. The region saw revolution ...
due to which villagers in the area where unable to access groundwater, whose level had fallen. Hakim and Justice Md Iqbal Kabir questioned why the government order removing Pirojpur's District and Sessions Judge Md Abdul Mannan is not an illegal order.
Mannan was suspended after sending
AKMA Awal, a former member of parliament of the
Awami League
The Awami League, officially known as Bangladesh Awami League, is a major List of political parties in Bangladesh, political party in Bangladesh. The oldest existing political party in the country, the party played the leading role in achievin ...
, and his wife to jail in three corruption case.
Hakim was appointed a judge on the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on 2 September 2020.
He retired on 18 September 2020.
References
1953 births
Living people
Bangladeshi judges
20th-century Bangladeshi lawyers
21st-century Bangladeshi lawyers
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