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Sheikh Rezowan Ali is a retired justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court.

Career

In 2000, as the metropolitan sessions judge, Ali was the judge of the Humayun Zahir murder case, who was a director of the United Commercial Bank Limited which was forcibly taken over by Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury Babu.

On 6 November 2002, Ali and Justice Gour Gopal Saha issued a verdict which stated courts must record the reason for allowing additional evidence in an ongoing trial. On 3 July 2003, Ali was made a permanent judge of the High Court Division by President Iajuddin Ahmed.

In September 2008, Ali and Justice Md Rais Uddin rejected the bail petition of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in an extortion case filed by Noor Ali, a businessman, following a petition by her lawyer Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh. The bail petition was contested by the government of Bangladesh.

In January 2009, Ali and Justice Md Rais Uddin asked law enforcement agencies to not harass prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the Niko corruption case and the barge-mounted power plant corruption case.

In May 2010, Ali and Justice Habibul Gani granted bail to Mehnaz Rashid, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Khandaker Abdur Rashid, in a case filed over a bomb attack on Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh. In July 2010, Ali and Ali and Justice Md Habibul Gani halted the murder trial against 11, including justice Md. Ruhul Quddus, over the 1988 murder of a Islami Chhatra Shibir activist at the University of Rajshahi.

In June 2011, Ali and Justice Muhammad Abdul Hafiz granted bail to Abdus Salam Pintu and Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu in a case filed over the 2001 Narayanganj bombing.

References

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2. "Hearing adjourned till Jan 23". The Daily Star. 2000-01-18. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
3. "Fresh arguments in Humayun Zahir Murder Case begin". The Daily Star. 2000-01-17. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
4. Mahmud, Arshad (1999-08-28). "Official accused of storming bank in Bangladesh". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
5. "Law & Our Rights". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
6. "Five additional judges of HC get job confirmation". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
7. "High Court Rejects Hasina's Bail Petition, AL Regrets". VOA. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
8. "Hasina files bail petition in extortion case". The Daily Star. 2008-09-22. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
9. "Govt keenly fights Hasina's bail bid". The Daily Star. 2008-09-25. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
10. "Don't harass Hasina for graft cases". The Daily Star. 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
11. "Mehnaz gets bail". The Daily Star. 2010-05-03. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
12. "Murder case against Ruhul Quddus stayed". The Daily Star. 2010-07-27. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
13. "Salam, Pintu get bail". The Daily Star. 2011-06-08. Retrieved 2023-08-28.

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