Md. Kamrul Hossain Mollah | |
|---|---|
| Justice of theHigh Court Division of Bangladesh | |
| Assumed office 22 February 1984 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1960-01-01)January 1, 1960 (age 65) |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Alma mater | University of Dhaka |
| Profession | Judge |
Md. Kamrul Hossain Molla is a Justice of theHigh Court Division of theBangladesh 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 theUniversity of Dhaka.[3]
Mollah joined the judicial branch of theBangladesh 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 ofJamaat-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 ofBangladesh Nationalist Party in a case over a bombing of a bus on 25 January 2015 inMirpur Thana.[5]
In May 2016, Mollah issued arrest warrants against formerPrime MinisterKhaleda Zia and 27 others in theZia Orphanage corruption case andZia Charitable Trust corruption case.[6]
In April 2017, Mollah, as the Judge of the Senior Special Judge's Court, issued an arrest warrant Mayor ofComilla City CorporationMonirul Haque Sakku in a case filed by theAnti Corruption Commission.[7] He found formerPresident of Bangladesh,Hussain Mohammad Ershad, two former chiefs ofBangladesh Air Force,Momtaz Uddin Ahmed andSultan 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 PresidentMd Abdul Hamid.[11][12]
Mollah and Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah ordered theBangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to removeAll the Prime Minister's Men report byAl 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 theChildren Act, 2013 and ordered his withdrawal.[14] In October 2021, Mollah and JusticeMd 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]