Md. Riaz Uddin Khan is a 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

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Early life

Khan was born on 15 December 1970. He did his bachelor's and master's at the

University of Dhaka The University of Dhaka (also known as Dhaka University, or DU) is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the oldest university in Bangladesh. The university opened its doors to students on July 1st 1921. Currently i ...

Career

Khan started working as a lawyer at the District Courts on 1 April 1995. He became a lawyer of the High Court Division 29 September 1996. In May 2011, Khan became a lawyer of the Appellate Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. President

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appointed Khan an Additional Judge of the High Court Division on 31 May 2018. In August 2019, Khan and Justice

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ordered

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to not harass four journalists in

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or arrest them in nine cases filed in four separate police stations on charges of

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acts and vandalism filed before the

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. On 30 May 2020, Khan was made a permanent judge of the High Court Division. In November 2020, Khan and Justice Md Habibul Gani granted anticipatory to 120 Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians in 11 cases filed for arsons attack on buses in Dhaka. Khan and Justice Md Habibul Gani granted anticipatory bail to 74 Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians, including Aman Ullah Aman and Mizanur Rahman Minu, in August 2021 in a case filed over attacking police at

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. Khan and Justice Md Habibul Gani stopped a labour law violation case against Dr

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, noble laurate, for six months in December. In January 2023, Khan and Justice Md Salim granted a six-month bail to

Bangladesh Nationalist Party The Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( bn, বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল, Bangladesh Jātīyotābādī Dol; BNP) is a centre-right to right-wing nationalist, political party in Bangladesh and one of the major ...

politicians,

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and

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in a case over clashes between Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists and the police on 7 December 2022. Khan and Justice Md Salim granted anticipatory bail to 25 pro-Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawyers over violence at the Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association. In July 2023, Khan was placed in a special bench to hear formed to hold hearing on old bail petitions at the High Court.

References

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