Former Chief Justice Kemaluddin Hossain died of cancer at United Hospital early Wednesday. He was 90.
The former chief justice breathed his last at the hospital at 4:55am, the duty officer of the hospital told, reports UNB.
His namaz-e-janaza will be held on the Supreme Court premises and at the Gulshan Azad mosque, and he will be buried at the city’s Banani graveyard.
Justice Kemaluddin was chief justice of the country from 1978 to 1982.
He was also the first chairman of the Law Commission.
