Baharul Islam Explained

Baharul Islam
Office2:Judge of the Supreme Court of India
Term Start2:4 December 1980
Term End2:12 January 1983
Office:Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Term Start:15 June 1983
Term End:14 June 1989 [1]
Term Start1:3 April 1962
Term End1:20 January 1972
Birth Date:1 March 1918
Party:Indian National Congress[2]
Alma Mater:Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University

Baharul Islam (1 March 1918 – 5 February 1993) was an Indian politician and judge of the Supreme Court of India.[3] [4] He was elected to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India as a member of the Indian National Congress. In 1972 he resigned from the Rajya Sabha to become a judge in the Gauhati High Court after retiring from the role of chief justice of the Gauhati High Court. He was later recalled and made a Judge of the Supreme court. In that position he passed a judgement absolving the then-Chief Minister of Bihar Jagannath Mishra in the urban cooperative bank scandal.[5] He later resigned from the Supreme court to contest elections as a Congress party candidate and was elected back to the Rajya Sabha.[6] [7] [8] [2]

Early life

He was born in the village of Udiana in the district of Kamrup, Assam. Islam attended Gurdon High School in Nalbari, and then Cotton College in Guwahati, as well as Aligarh Muslim University.

Career

Islam enrolled as an advocate of the Assam High Court in 1951 and as an advocate of the Supreme Court in 1958. He later joined the Indian National Congress party in 1956.[2] Islam was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1962 and 1968, which he resigned from in 1972. He was then appointed judge of the then Assam and Nagaland High Court (Now Gauhati High Court) on 20 January 1972. Islam was appointed the acting chief justice of the Gauhati High Court on March 11, 1979 and became chief justice on 7 July 1979. He retired from this role on 1 March 1980.

Islam was later appointed to the Supreme Court of India on 4 December 1980. As retired judges were not usually reappointed, this was unprecedented. He resigned from the Supreme Court on January 12, 1983 to contest from Barpeta, Assam to the Lok Sabha as a Congress party candidate, [9] however as elections in Assam were postponed in the 1984 Indian general election, he was reelected to the Rajya Sabha .

He was a member of the Gauhati High Court Bar Association.[10]

Committees

In 1987 Islam committee was appointed to draft the legislation emphasizing the rights, equal opportunities, and full participation of disabled persons.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rajya Sabsha Members Biographical Sketches 1952–2003 . . 17 March 2020.
  2. Web site: Removal motion against CJI a remarkable piece of skullduggery . . Dhananjay Mahapatra . 23 April 2018 . 17 March 2020.
  3. Web site: Former Judges: Baharul Islam. Supreme Court of India. https://web.archive.org/web/20141017050944/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/48_bislam.htm. 17 October 2014. dead. 20 September 2015. dmy-all.
  4. News: Kalbag, Chaitanya . 31 January 1983 . Ends of Justice . India Today . https://web.archive.org/web/20150922073522/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/justice-baharul-islam-tenders-his-resignation-from-sc-bench-to-president-zail-singh/1/371332.html . 22 September 2015 . live.
  5. Web site: Collegium 2.0 . Asian Age . Sudhansu Ranjan . 3 November 2015 . 17 March 2020.
  6. Web site: Justice Baharul Islam tenders his resignation from SC Bench to President Zail Singh . India Today . Chaitanya Kalbag . 31 July 1983 . 17 March 2020.
  7. Book: M.V. Pylee. Emerging Trends of Indian Polity. 1998. Regency Publications. 978-81-86030-75-2. 50–.
  8. Book: Abhinav Chandrachud. Supreme Whispers: Conversations with Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1980-89. 29 May 2018. Penguin Random House India Private Limited. 978-93-5305-021-4. 183–.
  9. Book: James Manor. Nehru to the Nineties: The Changing Office of Prime Minister in India. 17 March 2020. 1994. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. 978-1-85065-180-2. 112–.
  10. Web site: About Us: Past Presidents of the Association . Gauhati High Court Bar Association . 20 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304235854/http://ghconline.gov.in/Bar/aboutus.html . 4 March 2016 . dead.
  11. Encyclopedia: Bhambhani, Meenu . 2005 . Disability Policy: India . Albrecht, Gary L. . Encyclopedia of Disability, volume 1 . Thousand Oaks, California . Sage Publications . 465–467, page 467 . 978-1-4522-6520-9.