Md. Kamrul Hossain Mollah | |
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Justice of the High Court Division of Bangladesh | |
Assumed office 22 February 1984 | |
Personal details | |
Born | January 1, 1960 |
Nationality | Bangladeshi |
Alma mater | University of Dhaka |
Profession | Judge |
Md. Kamrul Hossain Molla is a Justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. [1] [2]
Mollah was born on 1 January 1960 in Parulia, Palash Upazila, Narsingdi District, East Pakistan, Pakistan. [3] He did his bachelor's and master's in law from the University of Dhaka. [3]
Mollah joined the judicial branch of the Bangladesh Civil Service on 22 February 1984 as a Munsif. [3]
On 5 May 1997, Mollah was promoted to Joint Sessions Judge. [3] He was promoted to Additional District Judge on 12 January 2004. [3]
In May 2008, as Judge of the judge of the special tribunal court, Molla sentenced to two members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh to life imprisonment in an explosives case. [4] On 28 April 2009, Molla was promoted to District and Sessions Judge. [3] He was made a senior District Judge on 28 April 2014. [3] In June 2015, as Metropolitan Sessions Judges Court, he issued arrest warrants against 33 politicians of Bangladesh Nationalist Party in a case over a bombing of a bus on 25 January 2015 in Mirpur Thana. [5]
In May 2016, Mollah issued arrest warrants against former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and 27 others in the Zia Orphanage corruption case and Zia Charitable Trust corruption case. [6]
In April 2017, Mollah, as the Judge of the Senior Special Judge's Court, issued an arrest warrant Mayor of Comilla City Corporation Monirul Haque Sakku in a case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission. [7] He found former President of Bangladesh, Hussain Mohammad Ershad, two former chiefs of Bangladesh Air Force, Momtaz Uddin Ahmed and Sultan Mahmud and AKM Musa, director of United Trading innocent in a 1992 corruption case related defence equipment purchase. [8]
On 31 May 2018, Mollah was appointed an Additional Judge of the High Court Division. [3] [9] After his appointment, Mollah and 17 other judges went to Gopalganj to pay tribute to the founding president of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. [10]
Mollah was made a permanent judge of the High Court Division on 30 May 2020 by President Md Abdul Hamid. [11] [12]
Mollah and Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah ordered the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to remove All the Prime Minister's Men report by Al Jazeera from online sites. [13] In June 2021, Mollah and Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah criticised Judicial Magistrate Enayet Ullah for not granting bail in underage accused in a rape case violating the Children Act, 2013 and ordered his withdrawal. [14] In October 2021, Mollah and Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Mia stayed for three months a government allocation of protected forest land, 700 acre in Cox's Bazar, for construction of the Bangladesh Civil Service Academy. [15]