Shamim Hasnain
{{Short description|Bangladeshi judge}}
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| name = Shamim Hasnain
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| office = Justice of the High Court Division of Bangladesh
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| profession = Judge
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Shamim Hasnain is a retired justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court.{{Cite web |date=2008-10-21 |title=Hearing on petition to vacate HC order today |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-59680 |access-date=2023-10-14 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}
Career
In September 2003, Hasnain and Justice M. A. Matin rejected a contempt of court suit filed by Magistrate Khandker Fatema Begum against United News of Bangladesh, Bhorer Kagoj, and The Daily Star.{{Cite web |title=Contempt plea rejected |url=https://archive.thedailystar.net/law/2004/05/01/week.htm |access-date=2023-10-14 |work=The Daily Star}} The news organizations had reported that the magistrate saluted Mirza Abbas, minister for housing and public works, when he entered her court room as an accused in a defamation case.
Hasnain and Justice Mir Hasmat Ali declared the Voluntary Disclosure of Information Ordinance-2008 which created the Truth and Accountability Commission illegal in November 2008.{{Cite web |date=2008-11-14 |title=Truth Commission not legal |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-63260 |access-date=2023-10-14 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}} The Truth and Accountability Commission was established on 30 July 2008 by the Fakhruddin Ahmed led caretaker government to increase the speed of corruption cases.{{Cite web |title=Bangladesh: Truth and Accountability Commission Declared Illegal |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2008-12-15/bangladesh-truth-and-accountability-commission-declared-illegal/ |access-date=2022-03-28 |website=Library of Congress}}{{Cite news |date=2008-04-04 |title=The Truth Commission |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-30625 |access-date=2022-03-28 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Faisal |first=Farhad |date=2008-03-28 |title=Truth commission |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-29525 |access-date=2022-03-28 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}} The caretaker government had arrested numerous politicians including former prime ministers Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia on corruption charges.{{Cite web |last=Ali |first=AMM Shawkat |title=Truth Commission |url=https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Truth_Commission |access-date=2022-03-28 |website=Banglapedia}} The commission was made up of a former judge of Bangladesh Supreme Court Justice Habibur Rahman Khan, retired comptroller and auditor general of Bangladesh Asif Ali, and a retired major general, Manzur Rashid Chowdhury, from the Bangladesh Army.{{Cite news |date=2008-07-31 |title=Truth Commission gets chief, members |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-48283 |access-date=2022-03-28 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}} Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina disclosed the names of 456 people who had confessed to the commission in April 2009.{{Cite news |date=2009-04-02 |title=PM discloses list of 456 people seeking Tac clemency |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-82377 |access-date=2022-10-04 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}
In January 2009, Hasnain and Justice Mir Hasmat Ali declared illegal rules of the University of Dhaka that prevented madrassah students for admission to seven departments of the university.{{Cite news |title=Law and Our Rights |url=https://archive.thedailystar.net/law/2009/01/04/week.htm |access-date=2023-10-14 |work=The Daily Star}}{{Cite news |date=2009-01-21 |title=Admission rules of 7 DU depts illegal |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-72241 |access-date=2023-10-14 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}
Hasnain and Justice MR Hasan granted bail to Bangladesh Jamaat-e Islami leaders in a case filed over assaulting police officers during a clash between the party and police in April 2011.{{Cite news |date=2011-04-08 |title=Jamaat leaders granted bail |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-180967 |access-date=2023-10-14 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}
Hasnain was a defense witness for Salauddin Quader Chowdhury appeal against his conviction for war crimes during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 2017.{{Cite news |date=2015-10-20 |title=SQ Chy petitions for Pak witnesses |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/sq-chy-petitions-pak-witnesses-159823 |access-date=2023-10-14 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}} His mother, Zinnat Ara Begum, had written a statement in favor of Chowdhury at his initial trial.{{Cite news |last=Sarkar |first=Ashutosh |date=2013-10-28 |title=SQ Chowdhury likely to file appeal with SC today |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/sq-chowdhury-likely-to-file-appeal-with-sc-today |access-date=2023-10-14 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}
Hasnain retired in April 2017.{{Cite news |last=Sarkar |first=Ashutosh |date=2017-06-11 |title=Deaths, retirement make it worse |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/deaths-retirement-make-it-worse-1418500 |access-date=2023-10-14 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}
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