Debasish Roy Chowdhury is a judge of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court and son of MP and minister Nitai Roy Chowdhury.[1]
Career
In December 2023, Roy and Nitai Roy Chowdhury represented Nipun Roy Chowdhury in eight cases including one over the vandalism of official residence of the chief justice during a rally of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.[2]
Roy, along with 22 others, were appointed Judges of the High Court Division on 9 October 2024 following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government.[3] He and Justice Farah Mahbub heard a petition filed by Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Secretary General of the Bangladesh Nationalist challenging the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Bangladesh.[4]
References
- ↑"High Court moved to investigate 50 lower court judges, clerks". Plea to probe 50 judges. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
- ↑"Nipun Roy Chowdhury gets anticipatory bail in 8 cases". The Daily Star. 2023-12-04. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
- ↑"23 New Judges Appointed to the High Court Division". RTV Online. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
- ↑"HC allows BNP to place arguments". The Daily Star. 2024-10-30. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
- Living people
- Bangladeshi lawyers
- Supreme Court of Bangladesh justices
- People from Magura District
- University of Dhaka alumni