S. M. Emdadul Hoque

Hoque was born on 7 November 1963.[1] He completed his bachelor's degree and masters in law from the University of Rajshahi.[1]

Hoque started working as a district court lawyer on 7 October 1990.[1]

On 26 November 1992, Hoque became a lawyer of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court.[1]

Hoque was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court on 23 August 2004.[1] He became a permanent judge on 23 August 2006.[1]

Hoque along with 18 other judges opposed a High Court Division judgement that ordered the government to confirm the appointment of 10 judges denied by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government in July 2008.[2]

On 27 August 2009, Hoque and Justice A. F. M. Abdur Rahman acquitted Member of Parliament Joynal Hazari on an arms case filed in 2001.[3]

In December 2010, Hoque and Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam issued an order confirming that Gulshan Club would have to pay income tax to National Board of Revenue after the club filed a petition saying it did not need to file taxes as it was a non-profit organization.[4]

Hoque and Justice S.M. Mozibur Rahman issued an order for the trial against seven Rapid Action Battalion officials to proceed in August 2016 for the Talsara Darbar Sharif robbery case.[5]

Hoque and Justice Bhishmadev Chakraborty on 14 December 2020 squashed the convictions against all the convicts, five sentenced to death, of the 2002 Netrokona rape case.[6]