Nazrul Islam Chowdhury (judge)

In 2001, Chowdhury was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division.[3]

In January 2003, Chowdhury and Justice M A Aziz declared the detention of Tofail Ahmed, a politician of the Awami League, who was arrested in December 2002.[4] On 3 July 2003, Chowdhury was appointed a permanent judge of the High Court Division.[3]

In May 2004, the Chief Justice nominated Chowdhury to the selection committee formed to pick the commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission.[5]

In September 2007, Chowdhury and Justice Ataur Rahman Khan rejected an appeal to squash the MiG-29 fighter planes corruption case against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.[6]

In August 2011, Chowdhury and Justice Anwarul Haque expressed embarrassment and unwillingness to hear the bail hearing in a case against 13 lawyers.[7] The lawyers were accused of preventing police from discharging their duties.[7] The lawyers had created chaos in a court room after a judge observed in a hearing against Fazlul Haque Amini that some comments of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia was seditious and quested her patriotism.[7]

In February 2016, Chowdhury stopped representing Mir Quasem Ali, a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami politician who had been accused of committing war crimes in the Bangladesh Liberation War.[1]