Serajul Huq
সিরাজুল হক
Born1925
Died28 October 2002(2002-10-28) (aged 76–77)
NationalityBangladeshi
Other namesBachchu Mia
Political partyBangladesh Awami League
ChildrenAnisul Huq (son)

Serajul Huq (1925 - 28 October 2002)[1] was a Bangladeshi lawyer and former member of parliament in Bangladesh.[2]

Career

Huq was a founding member of the Awami Muslim League and was a close associate and confidant of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He was an organiser of the Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971 and was one of the first persons to cross over to India to seek assistance from the Indian Government against the genocide committed by the Pakistani Army. He was a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh[3] and in 1973 was appointed the chief prosecutor for the crimes perpetrated during the 1971 war. Subsequently, in 1996 he was appointed the chief prosecutor in the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman murder case and in the jail killing case where four leaders of the country was killed in the Dhaka Central Jail in 1975.[1]

Family

Huq's was born to Nurul Huda, a police officer and Jaheda Khan, daughter of Yunus Ali Khan and sister of writer and novelist Farid Uddin Khan. His son Anisul Huq is a member of parliament and minister for law, justice and parliamentary affairs of the government of Bangladesh.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 অ্যাডভোকেট সিরাজুল হকের ১৪তম মৃত্যুবার্ষিকী শুক্রবার. banglanews24.com (in Bengali). 27 October 2016. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  2. ↑ "Honorable Minister". Law and Justice Division. Archived from the original on 2017-09-07. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  3. ↑ "::Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association::". www.bangladeshsupremecourtbar.com. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  4. ↑ "Home" (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2017-09-01. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
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