The Honourable
Ashish Ranjan Das
আশিস রঞ্জন দাশ
Justice of the High Court Division of Bangladesh
Assumed office
14 June 2012
Personal details
Born (1958-01-29) 29 January 1958
NationalityBangladeshi
Alma materUniversity of Dhaka
ProfessionJudge

Ashish Ranjan Das (born 29 January 1958) is a Bangladeshi justice of the High Court Division. He was appointed in 2012.[1]

Early life

Das was born on 29 January 1958.[2] He completed bachelors and masters of law from the University of Dhaka.[3][2]

Career

Das was appointed a judge in the District Munsiff Court on 20 April 1983.[2]

On 24 February 2000, Das through promotion became a District and Session Court Judge.[2]

In September 2007, Das sent one man to seven years imprisonment for throwing acid on a woman and her child.[4]

In July 2008, Das was the Satkhira District and sessions judge.[5] In July 2008, he sent the Officer in Charge of Patkelghata police station, Kazi Mizanur Rahman, to jail on charges of killing his wife.[6]

On 14 June 2012, Das was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court.[2] He had been serving as the secretary to the Law and Justice Division under the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.[7] On 1 November 2012, Das and Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury summoned the Officer in Charge of Kachua Police Station, Md Monjur for failing to prevent the extrajudicial punishment, canning of a woman under sharia law, in his area by a village arbitration committee.[8] He and Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury also summoned the Officer in Charge of Ujirpur Police Station, Liton Pandey, for failure to prevent an attack on a school headmaster.[9]

On 9 June 2014, Das was made a permanent judge of the High Court Division.[10]

Das and Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury in 2017 issued a verdict declaring certain sections of Mobile Court Act 2009 illegal.[11] The verdict was appealed by Motahar Hossain Sazu, the Deputy Attorney General of Bangladesh.[11]

On 18 October 2016, Das and Justice M Enayetur Rahim ordered the transfer of Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, Upazila Nirbahi Officer of Sakhipur Upazila, and Mohammad Maksudul Alam, Officer in Charge of Sakhipur Police Station outside of Dhaka Division.[12] They passed the order to ensure a fair investigation into the two for sending an 8th grade student to two years imprisonment.[12] The order was later stayed by Justice Hasan Foez Siddique of the Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Annual Report 2014" (PDF). Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 June 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Home : Supreme Court of Bangladesh". www.supremecourt.gov.bd. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  3. ↑ "Honorable Secretary: Ashish Ranjan Das". Law and Justice Division. Archived from the original on 29 March 2018.
  4. ↑ "One gets 14-yr RI for acid violence". The Daily Star. 19 September 2007. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  5. ↑ "'Vote for Sundarbans, Cox's Bazar'". The Daily Star. 13 July 2008. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  6. ↑ "Former OC sent to jail in wife murder case". The Daily Star. 8 July 2008. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  7. ↑ "Law and Our Rights". The Daily Star. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  8. ↑ "HC summons Kachua OC". The Daily Star. 1 November 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  9. ↑ "HC summons Ujirpur OC". The Daily Star. 1 November 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  10. ↑ "5 HC judges regularised". Prothom Alo. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  11. 1 2 "Writ filed against HC order over mobile court". Risingbd.com. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  12. 1 2 3 "Tangail Schoolboy: SC stays HC verdict on UNO's transfer". The Daily Star. 27 October 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2022.


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