M Ashraful Kamal

Kamal was born on 3 November 1964.[3] He did his bachelor's degree in law and masters in commerce from the University of Dhaka.[3]

Kamal started his legal practice on 30 April 1994.[3] He became a lawyer of the High Court Division on 26 September 1996.[3]

Kamal became a lawyer of the Bangladesh Supreme Court on 24 August 2010.[3] He was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division on 12 December.[3]

On 10 December 2012, Kamal was made a permanent Judge of the High Court Division.[3]

Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Kamal scrapped a provision of the Anti Corruption Commission act which curtailed the independence of the commissioners in 2015.[4] He and Justice Chowdhury issued a split verdict challenging the parliamentary membership of Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya who had been convicted in a corruption case.[5] Chowdhury asked Maya for an explanation while Kamal rejected the petition.[5]

In March 2016, Kamal, Justice Naima Haider, and Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque rejected a petition that challenged the making of Islam the state religion of Bangladesh in 1988.[6]

Kamal and Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury ordered the government of Bangladesh to collect taxes from Google.[7] In October 2018, Kamal gave a split verdict with Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury on a petition challenging the "fictitious" case filed by the Government of Bangladesh against politicians of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.[8] Chowdhury sought an explanation from the government why it should not be declared illegal while Kamal said the cases could not be called fictitious and should be properly investigated.[8]

In February 2019, Kamal and Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury issued a 17-point verdict on protecting rivers of Bangladesh such as preventing those involved in illegal occupation of river bank from receiving loans or standing for elections.[9] Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Kamal in a verdict recognized Turag river as a living entity and ordered the eviction of encroachers.[10][11] The verdict scrapped a lease by A. K. Azad of Ha-Meem Group on the banks of the river by Gazipur administration.[10] Kamal and Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury asked the government to take action to prevent unnecessary C-sections in June 2019.[12]

In June 2023, Kamal upheld the five-year jail sentence of Md Bazlur Rashid, Deputy Inspector General of Prison, 31.4 million BDT corruption case.[13]