Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque is a judge on the High Court Division of

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Early life

Hoque was born on 28 November 1958. He did his bachelors and masters in law from the University of Dhaka. He did his second masters of law from the University of Essex. He did an MBA from the American International university and PhD from the

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Career

Hoque became a lawyer on the district court on 6 October 1985. On 6 April 1989, Hoque became a lawyer of the High Court Division. Hoque was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division on 18 April 2010. On 15 April 2012, Hoque made a permanent judge of the High Court Division. On 8 January 2015, Hoque's residence in

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was burned down after he and Justice

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had issued a verdict which asked the Government of Bangladesh to not publicize statements by

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, vice-Chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Soon after his verdict, chairman of Ekushey Television, Abdus Salam was arrested for airing a speech of Tarique Rahman. Near the end of the year S. Alam Group bought Ekushey Television. In March 2016, Reza-Ul Hoque squashed a petition to remove Islam as the State religion of Bangladesh which was made in 1988 by the President of Bangladesh, General Hussain Mohammad Ershad, who was facing a popular movement against his dictatorship. Reza-Ul Hoque, Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury, and Justice Md Ashraful Kamal issued a verdict scrapping the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Bangladesh which allowed the government to impeach judges of the Bangladesh Supreme Court on 12 August 2016. Onn 13 December 2017, Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah censured

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and executive magistrate Mohammad Nooruzzaman of

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and additional deputy commissioner Sheikh Morshedul Islam of Lakshmipur District for abuse of power. In August 2019, Hoque, Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury, and Justice

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were sent on forced leave following allegations of corruption. Chowdhurt and Zahirul Haque were suspended for issuing a verdict in favor of MR Trading. Bangladesh Supreme Court asked the three to not perform judicial activities. Since then his judicial activities remained suspended.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoque, Quazi Reza-Ul Living people Bangladeshi judges Supreme Court of Bangladesh justices Bangladeshi lawyers University of Dhaka alumni Alumni of the University of Essex 1958 births People from Feni District