Md. Ataur Rahman Khan

Md. Ataur Rahman Khan is a judge of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court.^[1][2]

Early life

Khan was born on 1 December 1957.^[3]

Career

Khan joined the district court as a lawyer on 5 March 1984.^[3]

On 27 December 1989, Khan became a lawyer of the High Court Division and on 6 June 1999 he became a lawyer of the Appellate Division.^[3]

Khan was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division on 23 September 2004 and made a permanent judge of the division on 23 August 2006.^[3]

Khan was one of 19 High Court Division judges who opposed a High Court verdict asking the government to reinstate 10 judges.^[4] The ten judges appointment was not confirmed by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government.^[4]

On 29 August 2008, Khan and Justice Nozrul Islam Chowdhury acquitted six of the accused in the Jail Killing case while confirming the jail sentence of one.^[5] The acquitted are A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Abdul Hashem Mridha, Mohammad Bazlul Huda, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Marfat Ali Shah, Syed Faruque Rahman, and Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan.^[5] The court confirmed the death sentence of Moslemuddin.^[5]

In 2009, Khan and Justice Nozrul Islam Chowdhury sentenced three people to life imprisonment for murder who had been acquitted by a lower court on 19 March 1989.^[6]

Khan and Justice AKM Asaduzzaman granted bail to Mahfuz Anam, editor of The Daily Star, in 10 cases in June 2016.^[7]

Khan and Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain halted the suspension order of M. A. Mannan, Mayor of Gazipur, by the Local Government Division in July 2017.^[8] Khan and Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain also stayed the suspension orders of the mayors of Habiganj and Rajshahi.^[9] Khan and Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain summoned Health Secretary Sirajul Haque Khan for failure of the ministry to take action against pharmaceutical companies that produced toxic paracetamol leading to the death of 28 children in 2009.^[10][11] In November 2017, Khan and Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain declared the government travel ban on Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, former member of parliament from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, illegal.^[12] Khan and Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain asked the government to explain why closing Lakehead Grammar School for inspiring religious extremism should not be declared illegal as it harmed the students.^[13] It asked the government to take actions against individuals who have specific allegations against them and not the school as it would be detrimental to the education of the students.^[13]

In January 2018, Khan and Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain refused to hear a petition by lawyer Eunus Ali Akond to asking the government to explain why it had not appointed a successor to Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha after he resigned.^[14]

References

1. BSS, Dhaka (2021-02-27). "9 High Court benches to conduct physical courts from tomorrow". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
2. BanglaNews24.com (2018-01-29). "HC orders to withdraw Lohagara OC: UNO, others apologize for their role". banglanews24.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 2022-07-20.
3. "Home : Supreme Court of Bangladesh". www.supremecourt.gov.bd. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
4. Staff Correspondent (2008-07-28). "19 sitting judges oppose HC rule". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
5. Staff Correspondent (2008-08-29). "Muslem to die; Farook, Shahriar, Huda, Mohiuddin acquitted". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
6. Staff Correspondent (2009-02-11). "HC jails three acquitted by lower court". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
7. Staff Correspondent (2016-06-08). "Star editor gets HC bail in 10 cases". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
8. Staff Correspondent (2017-07-10). "HC stays govt suspension of Gazipur mayor". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
9. Report, Star Online (2017-04-04). "Suspension orders of Rajshahi, Habiganj mayors stayed". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
10. Report, Star Online (2017-08-21). "Toxic Paracetamol: HC summons health secy". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
11. Staff Correspondent (2017-08-24). "Toxic Paracetamol: HC admonishes health secretary". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
12. Staff Correspondent (2017-11-10). "HC declares Alal's oversees travel ban illegal". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
13. Report, Star Online (2017-11-09). "Legality of govt action to shut Lakehead school branches questioned". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
14. Report, Star Online (2018-01-04). "HC refuses to hear writ filed over CJ vacant post". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-07-20.