Four judges appointed to the Appellate Division took oath. Chief Justice Syed Refat Ahmed administered the oath to these four judges in the Judges Lounge of the Supreme Court at 10:30 am on Tuesday.
The four judges who took oath are – Zubair Rahman Chowdhury, Justice Syed Mohammad Ziaul Karim, Justice Md. Rezaul Haque and Justice SM Emdadul Haque.
Earlier on Monday, the President appointed four judges of the High Court Division to the Appellate Division.
It is to be noted that six judges of the Appellate Division, including Chief Justice Obaidul Hasan, resigned in the face of the demands of the protestors on August 10 after the fall of the government in the students’ movement. After that, Syed Refat Ahmed, the senior judge of the High Court Division, was made the Chief Justice. The Appellate Division judges again stood at six with the appointment of four more judges on Monday.
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