Chief Justice of Bangladesh

Chief Justice of Bangladesh
বাংলাদেশের প্রধান বিচারপতি
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Incumbent Syed Refaat Ahmed since 10 August 2024
Supreme Court of Bangladesh
Style	The Honourable
Type	Chief Justice
Status	Presiding Judge
Abbreviation	CJB
Residence	Dhaka, Bangladesh
Seat	Supreme Court of Bangladesh, Ramna, Dhaka
Nominator	The President of Bangladesh
Appointer	President of Bangladesh
Inaugural holder	Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem
Formation	16 December 1972 (1972-12-16)
Salary	৳ 310,000 Monthly (US$ 3,644) ৳ 1,320,000 annually (US$ 42,548)
Website	supremecourt.gov.bd

The Chief Justice of Bangladesh (Bengali: বাংলাদেশের প্রধান বিচারপতি – Bānglādēśhēr Prodhān Bichārpoti) is the chief amongst the judges of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and also head of the whole judicial establishments, including subordinate courts. The chief justice is appointed by the president of Bangladesh. The chief justice sits in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court with other judges to hear and decide cases, presides over meetings of the full Supreme Court to transact business relating to administration of the court, and supervises the discipline of the judges and magistrates of the subordinate courts. Most rules for regulating the practice and procedure of both the Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court (including subordinate courts) including those specified in certain legislative acts, such as the Companies Act 1994 and the Banking Companies Act 1991, are also duly scrutinized and approved in full court meetings presided over by the chief justice. He also distributes judicial business of the High Court Division by constituting different benches to exercise its original, appellate and revisable jurisdictions.

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Administrative control (including the power of creation of post, promotion and grant of leave) and discipline of the judges and magistrates of the subordinate courts is exercised by the president in consultation with the Supreme Court and urgent matters relating thereto are dispensed with in consultation with the chief justice.

List of chief justices of Bangladesh

N	Portrait	Name	Period of office		Appointing president
1		Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem	16 December 1972	5 November 1975	Abu Sayeed Chowdhury
2		Syed A. B. Mahmud Hossain	18 November 1975	31 January 1978	Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem
3		Kemaluddin Hossain	1 February 1978	11 April 1982	Ziaur Rahman
4		Fazle Kaderi Mohammad Abdul Munim	12 April 1982	30 November 1989	Ahsanuddin Chowdhury
5		Badrul Haider Chowdhury	1 December 1989	1 January 1990	Hussain Muhammad Ershad
6		Shahabuddin Ahmed	14 January 1990	31 January 1995
7		M.H. Rahman	1 February 1995	30 April 1995	Abdur Rahman Biswas
8		ATM Afzal	1 May 1995	31 May 1999
9		Mustafa Kamal	1 June 1999	31 December 1999	Shahabuddin Ahmed
10		Latifur Rahman	1 January 2000	28 February 2001
11		Mahmudul Amin Choudhury	1 March 2001	17 June 2002
12		Mainur Reza Chouwdhury	18 June 2002	22 June 2003	Badruddoza Chowdhury
13		Khondokar Mahmud Hasan	23 June 2003	26 January 2004	Iajuddin Ahmed
14		Syed Jillur Rahim Mudasser Husain	27 January 2004	28 February 2007
15		Md. Ruhul Amin	1 March 2007	31 May 2008
16		M M Ruhul Amin	1 June 2008	22 December 2009
17		Md. Tafazzul Islam	23 December 2009	7 February 2010	Zillur Rahman
18		Mohammad Fazlul Karim	8 February 2010	30 September 2010
19		A.B.M. Khairul Haque	1 October 2010	17 May 2011
20		Md. Muzammel Hossain	18 May 2011	16 January 2015
21		Surendra Kumar Sinha	17 January 2015	11 November 2017	Abdul Hamid
21		Md. Abdul Wahhab Miah (Acting)	11 November 2017	2 February 2018
22		Syed Mahmud Hossain	2 February 2018	30 December 2021
23		Hasan Foez Siddique	30 December 2021	25 September 2023
24		Obaidul Hassan	26 September 2023	10 August 2024	Mohammed Shahabuddin
25		Syed Refaat Ahmed	10 August 2024	Incumbent

See also

• Supreme Court of Bangladesh
• Caretaker Government of Bangladesh
• Chief Adviser of Bangladesh

References

• Chief Justice. Banglapedia (National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh)