Judges’ death: HC, Appellate Division closed Monday

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha announced the holiday after placing a wreath on the coffin of Justice Bazlur Rahman at the Supreme Court premises following his namaz-e-janaza. Bazlur, a judge of the Appellate Division, had been suffering from cancer and breathed his last on Sunday in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University hospital. “We also lost Justice JN Deb Choudhury last month. I declare both the divisions of the Supreme Court [High Court and Appellate Division] closed today [Monday] in honour of their departed souls,” the chief justice said. Having enrolled as an advocate of the District Court and the High Court in 1984 and 1987, respectively, Bazlur was elevated as an additional judge of the High Court in 2001 and was appointed as a judge of the same division in 2009. He was appointed as a judge at the Appellate Division in February last year. With his death, the number of Appellate Division judges now stands at eight. Earlier, Justice Jyotirmoy Narayan Deb Choudhury, who was a judge in the High Court, also died of cancer on December 15 in Square Hospital. He was appointed as an additional judge at the High Court in February last year.