High Court judge Md Akhtaruzzaman has tendered his resignation to the president, Mohammad Shahabuddin, amid a Supreme Judicial Council inquiry into his alleged misconduct.
A notification posted on the Supreme Court website on Sunday said that Justice Md Akhtaruzzaman, who was under a Supreme Judicial Council inquiry, submitted his signed resignation to the president through the chief justice.
On August 26, the Supreme Judicial Council concluded the final hearing concerning Justice Md Akhtaruzzaman and the council was scheduled to hold its final hearing on September 2 regarding a separate misconduct allegation against another High Court judge, Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar.
The council launched a full investigation into Justice Akhtaruzzaman in March 2025.
Akharuzzaman, judge of a Dhaka special court, was familiar for his verdicts in two Anti-Corruption Commission cases linked to Ziaur Rahman Orphanage Trust and Ziaur Rahman Charitable Trust, in which Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia was jailed for varying terms in 2018.聽 He was later elevated as a High Court judge.
Both Justice Khurshid and Justice Akhtaruzzaman are among 12 High Court judges who were temporarily barred from judicial duties by chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on October 21, 2024.
The decision followed student-led protests demanding action against their alleged judicial bias.
Three other judges 鈥� Justice Naima Haider, Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice SM Maniruzzaman 鈥� remain under SJC review.
Nine judges from the original list of 12 have been removed, resigned, or not retained through the SJC inquiry. Of them, Justice Khizir Hayat and Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman were removed, Justice Shahed Nuruddin, Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice AKM Zahirul Hoque resigned, and Justice Md Ataur Rahman Khan and Justice Ashish Ranjan Das retired during the inquiry.
The jobs of Justice SM Maud Hossain Dolan and Justice Md Aminul Islam were not regularised by the interim government.
