Bangladeshi 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]
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