Nazrul Islam Chowdhury is a retired Justice of the High Court Division of the

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Career

In 2001, Chowdhury was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division. In January 2003, Chowdhury and Justice

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declared the detention of

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, a politician of the

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, who was arrested in December 2002. On 3 July 2003, Chowdhury was appointed a permanent judge of the High Court Division. In May 2004, the Chief Justice nominated Chowdhury to the selection committee formed to pick the commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission. In September 2007, Chowdhury and Justice Ataur Rahman Khan rejected an appeal to squash the MiG-29 fighter planes corruption case against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. In August 2011, Chowdhury and Justice

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expressed embarrassment and unwillingness to hear the bail hearing in a case against 13 lawyers. The lawyers were accused of preventing police from discharging their duties. The lawyers had created chaos in a court room after a judge observed in a hearing against Fazlul Haque Amini that some comments of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia was seditious and quested her patriotism. In February 2016, Chowdhury stopped representing

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, a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami politician who had been accused of committing war crimes in the

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