Native Name Lang: | bn |
Office: | Justice of the High Court Division of Bangladesh |
Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
Profession: | Judge |
Md. Nuruzzaman is a justice in the Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court.[1]
Md. Nuruzzaman was born on 1 July 1956.[2]
Md. Nuruzzaman was in the Mukti Bahini and fought in the Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971.
Md. Nuruzzaman started working as a lawyer on 4 September 1983.
In 1987, Md. Nuruzzaman became an advocate in the Bangladesh High Court Division of Supreme Court of Bangladesh.[3]
On 30 June 2009, Md. Nuruzzaman was appointed an Additional Judge of the High Court Division of Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He became a full judge of the High Court Division of Supreme Court of Bangladesh on 6 June 2011.
On 17 September 2016, a bench led by Md. Nuruzzaman and Justice Zafar Ahmed rejected a petition by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia challenging the proceedings of Barapukuria coal scam case.[4]
Md. Nuruzzaman was appointed to the Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission on 6 December 2017.[5]
On 9 October 2018, Md. Nuruzzaman was appointed to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He is the chairperson of the enrollment committee of the Bangladesh Bar Council.[6] [7] In January 2019, he became the chamber judge of the Appellate Division several times.[8] On 19 December 2019, he was appointed the vacation judge by the chief justice.[9] He has been appointed as the Performing Chief Justice of Bangladesh several times.[10]