Md. Ruhul Quddus

Quddus was born on 7 December 1962.[1]

Quddus completed his B.A. LL.B. and M.S.S. at University of Rajshahi.[2][1] He was elected the General Secretary of the Rajshahi University Central Students Union.[1] A case of murder was filed against him and others in November 1988 on the charge of killing a leader of the Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Islamist political party Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, at the university.[3]

Quddus started working as a lawyer on 19 April 1993 and became a member of the Bangladesh Bar Council.[1] On 29 September 1996, he became a lawyer of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court.[1]

On 15 January 2009, Quddus became a lawyer of the Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court.[1] He served as an advisor to Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust and Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rajshahi.[1]

In April 2010, the government sought to remove Quddus from among those accused in the murder case, and appointed him an Additional Judge to the High Court Division.[3] In an unprecedented move, Chief Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim declined to swear him in.[4][5] Four months later, Quddus was dropped from the murder case.[3] Despite protests along party lines against Quddus' appointment, citing his "controversial past", the next Chief Justice, A.B.M. Khairul Haque, administered the oath of office to him in November.[6][7]

Quddus was appointed Judge to the High Court Division in October 2012.[2]