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Mohi Uddin Shamim
Mohi Uddin Shamim
Justice of the High Court Division of Bangladesh
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 April 1995
Personal details
Born	May 19, 1970 (age 54)
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Alma mater	University of Dhaka, University of Wolverhampton
Profession	Judge

Mohi Uddin Shamim is a Justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court.^[1]

Early life

Shamim was born on 19 May 1970.^[2] He has a bachelor's and master's in law from the University of Dhaka.^[2] He did a second bachelor of law from the University of Wolverhampton.^[2] He finished a Bar Vocational Course at the University of Northumbria.^[2] He is registered at Lincoln's Inn.^[2]

Career

Shamim became a lawyer of the District Courts on 1 April 1995.^[2]

Shamim became a High Court Division lawyer on 20 April 2005.^[2]

Shamim was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division on 31 May 2018.^[2] After his appointment, he and 17 new judges visited the mausoleum of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Tungipara.^[3] In October, Shamim issued a dissent verdict rejecting the bail petition of Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, founder of Gonoshasthaya Kendra, while his co-judge on the bench, Justice Muhammad Abdul Hafiz, granted four weeks anticipatory bail in the extortion case.^[4] The case was then sent to the chief justice to be assigned to a different bench.^[4] Shamim and Justice Muhammad Abdul Hafiz granted bail to barrister Mainul Hosein in two defamation cases related to his comments on journalist Masuda Bhatti.^[5]

Shamim was made a permanent Judge of the High Court Division on 30 May 2020 by President Md Abdul Hamid.^[6]^[7]

Shmam and Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder granted bail to the member of parliament from Bogra-2 and Jatiya Party politician, Shariful Islam Jinnah, in a corruption case.^[8] In April, Shamim and Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam summoned the District Commissioners of Dhaka and surrounding district over their failure to reduce air pollution.^[9] In August 2021, Shamim and Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder criticized the Anti-Corruption Commission for its failure to complete probes on time.^[10]

In February 2022, Shamim and Justice ASM Abdul Mobin rejected petitions challenging the Digital Security Act cases against journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol allowing the cases to proceed.^[11] Shamim and Justice ASM Abdul Mobin granted bail to Dipti Rani Das, a juvenile college student from Dinajpur District, who had been jailed under the Digital Security Act for hurting religious comments through a Facebook comment.^[12]

In May 2023, Shamim and Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah rejected the application of Robi Axiata challenging a lower court verdict which allowed the former CEO of Robi Axiata Mahtab Uddin Ahmed to proceed with his lawsuit over an unfair dismissal and compensation.^[13]