Baharul Islam
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Baharul Islam | |
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| Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
| In office 15 June 1983 – 14 June 1989 [1] | |
| In office 3 April 1962 – 20 January 1972 | |
| Judge of the Supreme Court of India | |
| In office 4 December 1980 – 12 January 1983 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 March 1918 |
| Died | 5 February 1993 (aged 74) |
| Political party | Indian National Congress[2] |
| Alma mater | Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University |
Baharul Islam (1 March 1918 – 5 February 1993) was an Indian politician and judge of the Supreme Court of India.[3][4] He was elected to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India as a member of the Indian National Congress. In 1972 he resigned from the Rajya Sabha to become a judge in the Gauhati High Court after retiring from the role of chief justice of the Gauhati High Court. He was later recalled and made a Judge of the Supreme court. In that position he passed a judgement absolving the then-Chief Minister of Bihar Jagannath Mishra in the urban cooperative bank scandal.[5] He later resigned from the Supreme court to contest elections as a Congress party candidate and was elected back to the Rajya Sabha.[6][7][8][2]
Early life
[edit]He was born in the village of Udiana in the district of Kamrup, Assam. Islam attended Gurdon High School in Nalbari, and then Cotton College in Guwahati, as well as Aligarh Muslim University.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]Islam enrolled as an advocate of the Assam High Court in 1951 and as an advocate of the Supreme Court in 1958. He later joined the Indian National Congress party in 1956.[2] Islam was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1962 and 1968, which he resigned from in 1972. He was then appointed judge of the then Assam and Nagaland High Court (Now Gauhati High Court) on 20 January 1972. Islam was appointed the acting chief justice of the Gauhati High Court on March 11, 1979 and became chief justice on 7 July 1979. He retired from this role on 1 March 1980.
Islam was later appointed to the Supreme Court of India on 4 December 1980. As retired judges were not usually reappointed, this was unprecedented.[citation needed] He resigned from the Supreme Court on January 12, 1983 to contest from Barpeta, Assam to the Lok Sabha as a Congress party candidate, [7][9] however as elections in Assam were postponed in the 1984 Indian general election, he was reelected to the Rajya Sabha .[6][3]
He was a member of the Gauhati High Court Bar Association.[10]
Committees
[edit]In 1987 Islam committee was appointed to draft the legislation emphasizing the rights, equal opportunities, and full participation of disabled persons.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Rajya Sabsha Members Biographical Sketches 1952–2003" (PDF). Rajya Sabha. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ a b c "Removal motion against CJI a remarkable piece of skullduggery". Dhananjay Mahapatra. The Times of India. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ a b "Former Judges: Baharul Islam". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- ^ Kalbag, Chaitanya (31 January 1983). "Ends of Justice". India Today. Archived from the original on 22 September 2015.
- ^ "Collegium 2.0". Sudhansu Ranjan. Asian Age. 3 November 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ a b "Justice Baharul Islam tenders his resignation from SC Bench to President Zail Singh". Chaitanya Kalbag. India Today. 31 July 1983. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ a b M.V. Pylee (1998). Emerging Trends of Indian Polity. Regency Publications. pp. 50–. ISBN 978-81-86030-75-2.
- ^ Abhinav Chandrachud (29 May 2018). Supreme Whispers: Conversations with Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1980-89. Penguin Random House India Private Limited. pp. 183–. ISBN 978-93-5305-021-4.
- ^ James Manor (1994). Nehru to the Nineties: The Changing Office of Prime Minister in India. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. pp. 112–. ISBN 978-1-85065-180-2. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ "About Us: Past Presidents of the Association". Gauhati High Court Bar Association. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- ^ Bhambhani, Meenu (2005). "Disability Policy: India". In Albrecht, Gary L. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Disability, volume 1. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. pp. 465–467, page 467. ISBN 978-1-4522-6520-9.