Md. Emdadul Huq is a judge of the

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of the

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Early life

Huq was born on 16 October 1956. He completed his

bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...

in law from the University of Rajshahi.

Career

After Huq graduated, he worked as a lawyer in the Rajshahi District Court on 11 March 1985. On 13 April 1987, Huq became a lawyer of the High Court Division. Huq was appointed a lawyer of the Appellate Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court on 27 February 2001. Huq was appointed an Additional Judge in the High Court Division on 23 August 2004 and was made a permanent judge on 23 August 2006. Huq was one of 19 judges who filed an appeal with the Bangladesh Supreme Court on 28 July 2008 challenging a High Court verdict which ordered the government to appoint 10 permanent judges to the High Court Division whose appointment was not confirmed by the previous Bangladesh Nationalist Party government. On 30 July 2008, Huq and Justice Sharif Uddin Chaklader issued a verdict halting corruption cases against six and granting them bail. The six accused were Syed Abdullah Muhammad Taher, former

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member of parliament,

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, former Bangladesh Nationalist Party member of parliament and owner of

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, Sayeed Hossain Chowdhury, owner of

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, Giridhari Lal Modi, founder of Uttara Group, Syed Galib Ahmed, director of Global Agro Trade (Pvt) Company Limited (GATCO Group), and Syed Tanveer Ahmed, director of Global Agro Trade (Pvt) Company Limited (GATCO Group). On 18 November 2009, Huq and Justice AFM Abdur Rahman issued a '' Sua sponte'' ruling asking Minister of Home Affairs,

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, to explain extrajudicial killings within 48 hours. The verdict was given following a news report on extrajudicial killings. Sahara Khatun denied there had been any extrajudicial killings since her government came to power. He canceled the parliamentary membership of Abdul Kashem, a Jatiya Party politician, for being a loan defaulter. Huq was a commissioner of the 5th

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in 2011. On 6 December 2017, Huq declared the parliamentary membership of

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illegal while his fellow judge on the bench, Justice FRM Nazmul Ahsan, disagreed with the verdict resulting in a split verdict. The case went to Justice Md Abu Zafor Siddique who issued a verdict in favor of Nizam Uddin Hazari. On 12 February 2020, Huq and Justice Md Akram Hossain Chowdhury issued an order asking the government to explain why the detention of Shariat Sarkar should not be declared illegal. He had been detained under

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for saying that he would pay clerics if they could prove singing was forbidden in Islam at a concern in Dhamrai.

References

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