Shahabuddin Ahmed Death: How did Shahabuddin Ahmed Die?

How did Shahabuddin Ahmed Die?

Ahmed was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital’s (CMH) intensive care unit (ICU) in February 2022 owing to an aging-related ailment. On March 19, 2022, he died in the Combined Military Hospital.

 

He was admitted to CMH with old age complications. Shahabuddin Ahmed was the sixth CJ of Bangladesh.

He was the chief of the caretaker government after the fall of army dictator HM Ershad and was elected president after the Awami League had been voted to power in 1996.

He was born in Pamal village of Kendua in Netrokona on February 1, 1930.

He entered the University of Dhaka in 1948 after clearing the matriculation and intermediate exams, earning a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1951 and a master’s degree in international relations in 1952.

In 1954, he joined the Pakistani Civil Service and went on to the Lahore Civil Service Academy and the University of Oxford for training.

He served as Gopalganj and Natore’s sub-divisional officer. He served as the Faridpur’s extra deputy commissioner.

He joined the judicial branch in 1960, serving as an extra district and session judge in Dhaka and Barisal, as well as a district and session judge in Comilla and Chittagong.

He worked as a registrar in the High Court of East Pakistan in Dhaka in 1967. On January 29, 1972, he was appointed to the High Court bench.

On February 7, 1980, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Bangladesh’s appeal division.

Shahabuddin was the head of the Commission of Inquiry into the police shooting of students in mid-February 1983, which was created under the Commission of Inquiry Act.

On January 14, 1990, he was named Chief Justice of Bangladesh.

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