Ashish Ranjan Das

Das was born on 29 January 1958.[2] He completed bachelors and masters of law from the University of Dhaka.[3][2]

Das was appointed a judge in the District Munsiff Court on 20 April 1983.[2]

On 24 February 2000, Das through promotion became a District and Session Court Judge.[2]

In September 2007, Das sent one man to seven years imprisonment for throwing acid on a woman and her child.[4]

In July 2008, Das was the Satkhira District and sessions judge.[5] In July 2008, he sent the Officer in Charge of Patkelghata police station, Kazi Mizanur Rahman, to jail on charges of killing his wife.[6]

On 14 June 2012, Das was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court.[2] He had been serving as the secretary to the Law and Justice Division under the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.[7] On 1 November 2012, Das and Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury summoned the Officer in Charge of Kachua Police Station, Md Monjur for failing to prevent the extrajudicial punishment, canning of a woman under sharia law, in his area by a village arbitration committee.[8] He and Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury also summoned the Officer in Charge of Ujirpur Police Station, Liton Pandey, for failure to prevent an attack on a school headmaster.[9]

On 9 June 2014, Das was made a permanent judge of the High Court Division.[10]

Das and Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury in 2017 issued a verdict declaring certain sections of Mobile Court Act 2009 illegal.[11] The verdict was appealed by Motahar Hossain Sazu, the Deputy Attorney General of Bangladesh.[11]

On 18 October 2016, Das and Justice M Enayetur Rahim ordered the transfer of Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, Upazila Nirbahi Officer of Sakhipur Upazila, and Mohammad Maksudul Alam, Officer in Charge of Sakhipur Police Station outside of Dhaka Division.[12] They passed the order to ensure a fair investigation into the two for sending an 8th grade student to two years imprisonment.[12] The order was later stayed by Justice Hasan Foez Siddique of the Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court.[12]