Debasish Roy Chowdhury

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Debasish Roy Chowdhury is a judge of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court.{{Cite web |title=High Court moved to investigate 50 lower court judges, clerks |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/f4427828792d |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=Plea to probe 50 judges |language=en}}

Career

In December 2023, Roy and Nitai Roy Chowdhury represented Nipun Roy Chowdhury in eight cases including one over the vandalism of official residence of the chief justice during a rally of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.{{Cite web |date=2023-12-04 |title=Nipun Roy Chowdhury gets anticipatory bail in 8 cases |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/crime-justice/news/nipun-roy-chowdhury-gets-anticipatory-bail-8-cases-3485681 |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}

Roy, along with 22 others, were appointed Judges of the High Court Division on 9 October 2024 following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government.{{Cite web |title=23 New Judges Appointed to the High Court Division |url=https://www.rtvonline.com/english/bangladesh/17031 |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=RTV Online |language=en}} He and Justice Farah Mahbub heard a petition filed by Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Secretary General of the Bangladesh Nationalist challenging the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Bangladesh.{{Cite web |date=2024-10-30 |title=HC allows BNP to place arguments |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/hc-allows-bnp-place-arguments-3739921 |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}

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