A. K. M. Zahirul Huq is a Justice of the High Court Division of the

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Early life

Huq was born on 15 February 1971. He did his undergraduate and graduate degree in law from the University of Dhaka.

Career

Huq became a lawyer of the District Courts on 10 October 1995 and the High Court Division on 10 July 1999. Huq became a lawyer of the Appellate Division on 29 March 2018. He was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division on 21 October 2019. In November 2019, Huq and Justice Obaidul Hassan upheld a lower court verdict ordering the seizure of Hong Kong bank accounts of M Morshed Khan, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and his son. Khan was represented by

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and Ajmalul Hossain. In January 2020, Huq and Justice

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granted bail to Matiur Rahman, editor of Prothom Alo, in a case filed over the death of a

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student who died of accidental electrocution at a program of the newspaper. The bench also ordered the government to not harass Matiur Rahman. Huq and Justice Obaidul Hassan granted bail to former

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member of parliament,

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, and his wife in a corruption case. In February 2020, Huq and Justice Obaidul Hassan stopped the corruption case against Abdul Latif Siddique, former Minister of Textiles and Jute, in a corruption case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission. In September, Huq and Justice Obaidul Hassan ordered Aslamul Huq, member of parliament, to stop the construction of his Arisha Economic Zone over allegations that it was encroaching on

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. In December 2020, Huq and Justice Md Moinul Islam Chowdhury passed a verdict in favor of the Anti-Corruption Commission investigating Deputy Attorney General Jannatul Ferdousi Rupa on corruption allegations. In November 2021, Huq and Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder denied bail to actor and producer Nazrul Islam Raz on 180 million BDT money laundering case. In January 2022, Huq and Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder granted bail to the owner of Lakehead Grammar School, Md Khaled Hassan Matin, on allegations of laundering 33 million BDT. Huq and Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder granted bail to Tufan Sarkar, leader of Bangladesh Sramik League, in a 3.3 million BDT money laundering case. In July 2023, Huq and Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain asked lawyers not to refer to them as lords but instead use sir or your honor.

References

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