Nazrul Islam Chowdhury (judge)

Nazrul Islam Chowdhury is a retired justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court.^[1][2]

Nazrul Islam Chowdhury
Justice of the High Court Division of Bangladesh
Incumbent
Assumed office 2001
Personal details
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Profession	Judge

Career

In 2001, Chowdhury was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division.^[3]

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.^[4] On 3 July 2003, Chowdhury was appointed a permanent judge of the High Court Division.^[3]

In May 2004, the Chief Justice nominated Chowdhury to the selection committee formed to pick the commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission.^[5]

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.^[6]

In August 2011, Chowdhury and Justice Anwarul Haque expressed embarrassment and unwillingness to hear the bail hearing in a case against 13 lawyers.^[7] The lawyers were accused of preventing police from discharging their duties.^[7] 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.^[7]

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.^[1]