Serajul Huq (1925 - 28 October 2002) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and former member of parliament in Bangladesh.

Career

Huq was a founding member of the Awami Muslim League and was a close associate and confidant of

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 Bengali politi ...

. He was an organiser of the Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971 and was one of the first persons to cross over to India to seek assistance from the Indian Government against the genocide committed by the Pakistani Army. He was a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and in 1973 was appointed the chief prosecutor for the crimes perpetrated during the 1971 war. Subsequently, in 1996 he was appointed the chief prosecutor in the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman murder case and in the jail killing case where four leaders of the country was killed in the Dhaka Central Jail in 1975.

Family

Huq's was born to Nurul Huda, a police officer and Jaheda Khan, daughter of Yunus Ali Khan and sister of writer and novelist Farid Uddin Khan. His son Anisul Huq is a member of parliament and minister for law, justice and parliamentary affairs of the government of Bangladesh.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Huq, Serajul 1925 births 2002 deaths Awami League politicians 20th-century Bangladeshi lawyers People from Kasba Upazila Recipients of the Independence Day Award