Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Tuesday administered the oath of office to 25 newly appointed additional judges of the High Court Division, raising the total number of High Court judges to 113.
The oath-taking ceremony was held at the Judges鈥� Lounge of the Supreme Court, in the presence of judges from both the High Court and the Appellate Division.
The benches for the new judges will begin functioning from Wednesday, following allocation by the chief justice.
Names of newly appointed judges from the Supreme Court Bar Association are 鈥� Md Anwarul Islam Shahid, Raziuddin Ahmed, Faisal Hasan Arif, Md Asif Hasan, Md Ziaul Haque, Fatema Anowar, Abdur Rahman, Syed Hasan Jobaer and Urmi Rahman.
Names of appointed judges from the lower judiciary are鈥擬d Saiful Islam, additional secretary, law ministry; Md Nurul Islam, Chattogram district and sessions judge; law secretary Sheikh Abu Taher, Supreme Court registrar general and senior district judge Aziz Ahmed Bhuiyan, joint secretary and senior district judge SM Saiful Islam,聽Hobiganj district and sessions judge Jesmin Ara Begum, Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission secretary and district judge Murad-A-Mawla Sohel, Dhaka district and sessions judge Md Zakir Hossain and聽solicitor and senior district judge Md Rafizul Islam.
Names of the judges appointed from the interim government鈥檚 legal team (deputy attorneys general)鈥攁re Dihidar Masum Kabir, Md Monjur Alam, Md Lutfor Rahman, Rezaul Karim, Mahmudul Hasan, AFM Saiful Karim, and SM Iftekhar Uddin Mahamud.
This is the first batch of High Court appointments made through the seven- member Supreme Judicial Appointment Council, which was formed under the Supreme Court Appointment Ordinance, 2025, passed by the interim government.
In October 2024, the interim government appointed for the first time 23 additional HC judges after 12 High Court judges were sent on leave after the Sheikh Hasina regime was ousted following the July uprising.
