Nazrul Islam Chowdhury (judge)
{{Short description|Bangladeshi judge}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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| name = Nazrul Islam Chowdhury
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| native_name_lang = bn
| office = Justice of the High Court Division of Bangladesh
| term_start = 2001
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| nationality = Bangladeshi
| profession = Judge
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Nazrul Islam Chowdhury is a retired justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court.{{Cite news |date=2017-10-04 |title=Law minister bins 'speculations' |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/ailment-or-pressure-1471279 |access-date=2023-09-01 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}
Career
In 2001, Chowdhury was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division.{{Cite news |date=3 July 2003 |title=Five additional judges of HC get job confirmation |url=https://archive.thedailystar.net/2003/07/03/d3070301044.htm |access-date=1 September 2023 |work=The Daily Star}}
In January 2003, Chowdhury and Justice M A Aziz declared the detention of Tofail Ahmed, a politician of the Awami League, who was arrested in December 2002.{{Cite news |date=2003-01-15 |title=Detention of Tofail, Saleem Illegal: HC |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/detention-of-tofail-saleem-illegal-hc |access-date=2023-09-01 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}} 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.{{Cite news |date=16 May 2004 |title=Law & Our Rights: Selection body formed for anti-graft commission |url=https://archive.thedailystar.net/law/2004/05/02/week.htm |access-date=1 September 2023 |work=The Daily Star}}
In September 2007, Chowdhury and Justice Ataur Rahman Khan rejected an appeal to quash the MiG-29 fighter planes corruption case against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.{{Cite news |date=2007-09-07 |title=HC rejects appeal to quash MiG case |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-3001 |access-date=2023-09-01 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}
In August 2011, Chowdhury and Justice Anwarul Haque expressed embarrassment and unwillingness to hear the bail hearing in a case against 13 lawyers.{{Cite news |date=6 August 2011 |title=Law and Our Rights: Judge embarrassed to hear 'banned' lawyers' bail plea |url=https://archive.thedailystar.net/law/2011/08/01/week.htm |access-date=1 September 2023 |work=The Daily Star}} 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 Mir Quasem Ali, a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami politician who had been accused of committing war crimes in the Bangladesh Liberation War.{{cite news |last1=Shaon |first1=Ashif Islam |title=Retired judge quits as Mir Quasem counsel |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/bangladesh-others/120702/retired-judge-quits-as-mir-quasem-counsel |access-date=1 September 2023 |work=Dhaka Tribune |date=15 February 2015}}
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