Bhishmadev Chakraborty
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Bhishmadev Chakrabortty (born 2 June 1967) is a Bangladeshi justice of the
High Court Division The High Court Division, Supreme Court of Bangladesh ( bn, হাইকোর্ট ডিভিশন) popularly known as the 'High Court' is one of the two divisions of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, the other division being the Appellate D ...
of the
Bangladesh Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Bangladesh ( bn, বাংলাদেশ সুপ্রীম কোর্ট) is the highest court of law in Bangladesh. It is composed of the High Court Division and the Appellate Division, and was created by Part VI C ...
. He was appointed in 2015.


Early life

Chakrabortty completed his bachelors and masters in law from the University of Dhaka. He enrolled a lawyer of the district court on 11 October 1993.


Career

Chakrabortty became a lawyer of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court on 28 January 1995. On 24 August 2010, Chakrabortty became a lawyer of the Appellate Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. Chakrabortty on 12 February 2015 was appointed a judge on the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. Chakrabortty and Justice Md Ruhul Quddus on 15 December 2015, conformed the 15 year sentence handed down to Osman Gani, former chief conservator of forest, on corruption charges. In October 2016, Chakrabortty and Justice Md Ruhul Quddus issued a verdict that said a rape accused cannot be found only on the basis of lack of medical evidence. On 9 May 2017, Chakrabortty and Justice Md Ruhul Quddus acquitted former President Hussain Mohammad Ershad in a 25 year old corruption case relating to his presidency. Chakrabortty and Justice Md Ruhul Quddus gave the verdict on the
Murder of Biswajit Das Biswajit Das was a 24-year-old tailor in Dhaka, Bangladesh, who was murdered on 9 December 2012 by members of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of the governing Awami League party. On that day there was a nationwide road block ...
, on 6 August 2017. They upheld the verdict of the lower court which had sentenced 8 accused to death.


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