S.M. Mozibur Rahman (born 12 June 1955) is a Bangladeshi justice of the

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. He was appointed in 2015.

Early life

Rahman was born on 12 July 1966. He completed a bachelors of arts and another bachelors of law.

Career

Rahman joined as a district Munsif on 22 February 1984. On 9 May 2007, Rahman was promoted to District Judge. On 12 February 2015, Rahman was made an additional judge of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court. In January 2017, Rahman and Justice Zinat Ara granted anticipatory bail to Afsan Chowdhury, professor of

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, in case filed

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. over a Facebook post. Rahman became a permanent judge of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court on 8 February 2017. In November 2018, Rahman and Justice A. K. M. Asaduzzaman granted bail to former Prime Minister

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in an arson case filed in Comilla in January 2015. Rahman and Justice A. K. M. Asaduzzaman granted bail to the editor of Amar Desh online,

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, in a case over making derogatory remarks about Prime Minister

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and

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ( bn, শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান; 17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), often shortened as Sheikh Mujib or Mujib and widely known as Bangabandhu (meaning ''Friend of Bengal''), was a Bengalis, Beng ...

. Rahman and Justice A. K. M. Asaduzzaman granted bail to former Awami League member of parliament

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on 14 March 2019 in the 2013 Faruk Ahmed murder case. On 8 March 2020, Rahman and Justice A. K. M. Asaduzzaman cancelled the bail to G.K. Shamim, a well known contractor. In November 2021, Rahman was removed from a bench overseeing corruption cases by the chief justice after getting into an argument with fellow Justice

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. He was replaced by Justice A. K. M. Zahirul Huq. In January 2022, Rahman and Justice Md. Habibul Gani refused to grant bail to sister of journalist Kanak Sarwar in a

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case.

References

Living people 1955 births Supreme Court of Bangladesh justices {{Bangladesh-bio-stub