Abdul Wahhab Miya (born 11 November 1951) is a Bangladeshi jurist. He was appointed as acting

Chief Justice of Bangladesh The chief justice of Bangladesh ( bn, বাংলাদেশের প্রধান বিচারপতি — ) is the chief amongst the judges of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and also head of the whole judicial establishments, includ ...

when former Chief Justice

Surendra Kumar Sinha Surendra Kumar Sinha (born 1 February 1951), commonly known as SK Sinha is a Bangladeshi lawyer and jurist who served as the 21st Chief Justice of Bangladesh. He resigned from the position in November 2017 amid the 16th amendment verdict controve ...

left.

Career

Miya was listed as a High Court Division judge in 1976. Justice Miah was appointed an additional judge to the High Court Division on 24 October 1999 and became permanent Judge in 2001. He was elevated to the Appellate Division on 23 February 2011. He was made acting

when former Chief Justice

left. He resigned from his post on 2 February 2018 though he was set to retire on Nov 10, 2018. Currently he is working at

North South University North South University ( bn, নর্থ সাউথ বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, also known as NSU) is a private university based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Its business school is the first Bangladeshi university to receive Americ ...

as a Law Faculty and at

BRAC University BRAC University ( bn, ব্র্যাক বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, also known as BracU) is a private research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was established in 2001 as a branch of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed's BRAC un ...

as an Adjunct Faculty.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Miah, Md. Abdul Wahhab Living people 20th-century Bangladeshi judges Supreme Court of Bangladesh justices Chief Justices of Bangladesh 1951 births 21st-century Bangladeshi judges People from Jamalpur District