Habibur Rahman Khan
Justice of the High Court Division of Bangladesh
Personal details
Born(1930-01-05)5 January 1930
Died20 October 2015(2015-10-20) (aged 85)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
NationalityBangladeshi
ProfessionJudge

Habibur Rahman Khan (5 January 1930 – 20 October 2015) was a judge of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court and the only chairman of the Truth and Accountability Commission.[1]

Early life

Khan was born on 5 January 1930 in Manikganj District, East Bengal, British India.[2]

Career

Khan led a judicial commission in 1998 that looked at the Shamim Reza Rubel murder in police custody.[3]

Khan was chairman of Bangladesh Press Council in 2006[4] and founder of Manikganj Zilla Samity.[2] He was a former President of Dhaka Bar Association.[2]

In August 2007, clashes broke out between students of the University of Dhaka and Bangladesh Army soldiers stationed on campus and car of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence was burned.[5][6] In the following days protests spread to different districts in which one person was killed and 300 were injured.[5] Khan led a one man commission formed by the government to investigate the incident.[5][7] His investigation found no fault with the actions of the university teachers.[8] Bangladesh Police had detained Dr. Sadrul Amin, President of Dhaka University Teachers' Association and General Secretary of Dhaka University Teachers' Association M. Anwar Hossain.[9] The police also detained Professor Harun-or-Rashid and Professor Dr. Neem Chandra Bhowmik of the University of Dhaka along with 15 students.[6] His final report recommended that the government create a code of conduct for University of Dhaka students, teachers, and staff.[10]

On 30 July 2008, Khan was made the first chairman of the Truth and Accountability Commission.[11] The commission formed by the Fakhruddin Ahmed led Caretaker Government to investigate corruption.[12] The Commission would be declared illegal by the High Court Division.[13][14]

In 2010, Khan was made the leader of a single man commission to investigate government land which have been illegally occupied.[15] He reported the task to be impossible due to the size of the task and the lack of manpower.[15]

Death

Khan died on 20 October 2015 in United Hospital Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 308". archive.thedailystar.net. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Justice Habibur Rahman Khan passes away". www.observerbd.com. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  3. ↑ "Bangladesh top court bars arrest without warrant". Gulf-Times (in Arabic). 2016-05-25. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  4. ↑ "The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 854". archive.thedailystar.net. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  5. 1 2 3 "Bangladesh lifts curfew after peace restored". Reuters. 2007-08-28. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  6. 1 2 Correspondent, Court (2007-12-13). "DU teachers' ordeal drags on as charges framed again". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  7. ↑ "Probe body finds no instigative elements in day 1 incidents". The Daily Star. 2007-09-02. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  8. ↑ Report, Star (2007-09-03). "DU teachers were sincere in resolving crisis". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  9. ↑ "Dhaka University Teachers' Association (Duta) President Sadrul Amin, left, and General Secretary Anwar Hossain, right, were produced before the judicial probe commission of Justice Habibur Rahman Khan". archive.thedailystar.net. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  10. ↑ Liton, Shakhawat (2008-04-02). "Judicial probe body wants code of conduct for DU teachers, students". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  11. ↑ "Justice Habibur Rahman Khan to be Truth Commission chief". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  12. ↑ Staff Correspondent (2008-07-31). "Truth Commission gets chief, members". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  13. ↑ "Tac set free for a month by SC". The Daily Star. 2008-11-17. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  14. ↑ Staff Correspondent (2009-04-02). "PM discloses list of 456 people seeking Tac clemency". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
  15. 1 2 BanglaNews24.com (2010-08-20). "Impossible to run Commission alone: Justice Habibur". banglanews24.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 2022-03-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.