The Law Commission of Bangladesh is an independent body, set up through an act passed in the national parliament that reviews laws and recommends reforms when necessary in Bangladesh and is located in

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city i ...

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

. Former chief justice A. B. M. Khairul Haque is the present chairman of the commission.

History

There has a number of temporary law commissions in the history of Bangladesh, the first one being set up in 1974. On 9 September 1996 the first permanent law commission was constituted. The first chairman of the commission was

Fazle Kaderi Mohammad Abdul Munim Fazle Kaderi Mohammad Abdul Munim (known as FKMA Munim; 1 December 1924 – 16 February 2001) was a Bangladeshi jurist served as the 4th Chief Justice of Bangladesh and the former chief of Bangladesh Law Commission. Early life Munim was born on ...

, a former chief justice of Bangladesh. In 2016 it drafted the Liberation War Denial Crimes Act, 2016 which made denying war crimes in the Bangladesh Liberation war a crime.

References

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