M Akram Hossain Chowdhury

Chowdhury was born on 25 April 1959.[2] He has a bachelors of art and another in law from the University of Dhaka.[2]

Chowdhury started his legal practice on 26 October 1987 in the district courts and in the High Court on 30 October 1989.[2]

Chowdhury was appointed the Deputy Attorney General of Bangladesh in February 2009.[3]

Chowdhury was appointed to an additional judge of the High Court Division on 12 December 2010 and was made a permanent judge on 10 December 2012 by President Zillur Rahman.[2][4]

In February 2014, Chowdhury and Justice M Enayetur Rahim sentenced three people to life imprisonment over the murder of Commodore Ghulam Rabbani, former managing director of Korean Export Processing Zone, in 2004.[5] Chowdhury and Justice Sayed AB Mahmudul Huq granted one year bail to Helena Pasha of Adflame Pharmaceuticals in an adulteration case in which she was sentenced to ten years imprisonment.[6] In the 1990s a number of children died after consuming contaminated chidlren's paracetamol syrup.[6]

In June 2016, Chowdhury and Justice Md Habibul Gani granted bail to an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League who had been convicted on election rigging during union elections in Hathazari Upazila.[7] Chowdhury and Justice Md Habibul Gani granted bail to Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician Rizvi Ahmed in five different criminal cases.[8]

Justice Md Emdadul Huq and Chowdhury denied bail to folk singer Shariat Boyati in a case over "hurting the religious sentiments" of Muslims.[9]

On 3 October 2022, Chowdhury and Justice Shahed Nuruddin granted bail to a leader of Rajbari District unit of Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Mohila Dal in a defamation case for making derogatory comments about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.[10] He was a member of the Chief Justice Medal selection committee.[11]

In 2023, Chowdhury and Justice Mohammad Ali granted bail to the owner of Rana Plaza, Sohel Rana, in the case over the collapse plaza.[12][13] The bail was canceled in April by Justice Md Abu Jafor Siddique.[12]