Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Kazi Md. Ejarul Haque Akondo | |
Native Name: | কাজী ইজারুল হক আকন্দো |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Office: | Justice of the High Court Division of Bangladesh |
Term Start: | 14 June 2012 |
Birth Date: | 24 May 1971 |
Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
Parents: | Late Md. Ismail Hossain Akondo (father) Most. Hasina Begum (mother) |
Profession: | Judge |
Alma Mater: | University of Dhaka |
Kazi Md. Ejarul Haque Akondo (born 24 May 1971) is a Bangladeshi justice of the High Court Division. He was appointed in 2012.[1]
Akondo was born on 24 May 1971.[2] He completed his bachelor's and master's from the University of Dhaka.
Akondo started working as a district court lawyer on 1 April 1995.
On 30 October 1997, Akondo became a lawyer of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court.
Akondo was appointed a judge of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court on 14 June 2012. In June 2014, he was made a permanent judge of the High Court Division.[3]
In May 2014, Akondo and Justice Farah Mahbub issued a split verdict on 25 May 2014 on a petition filed by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.[4] The petition called the appointment of Special Judge Basudeb Roy to the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case was illegal. Akondo ordered for the petition to be scrapped while Mahbub ordered a freezing of the trust corruption trial. The chief justice appointed Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque to solve the issue.
On 14 December 2015, Akondo and Justice Farah Mahbub asked the government to explain the legal basis behind the construction of a market near Balda Garden in Wari, Old Dhaka.[5] The order was issued after The Daily Star reported a road beside the garden was leased by Dhaka South City Corporation to Awami League members to build the market.\
In February 2021, Akondo and Justice AKM Asaduzzaman granted bail to a journalist in a case filed under the Digital Security Act by Deputy Commissioner of Kishoreganj District Md Sarwar Murshed Chowdhury.[6] Akondo and Justice Muhammad Abdul Hafiz extended the bail of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia by one year on 28 September 2021.[7]