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Md Jahurul Haque

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Md Jahurul Haque
Haque in 2020
Commissioner
Anti Corruption Commission
In office
10 March 2021 – 29 October 2024
Appointed byPresident of Bangladesh
PresidentMohammad Abdul Hamid
Chairman
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission
In office
31 January 2019 – 4 December 2020
Preceded byShahjahan Mahmood
Succeeded byShyam Sunder Sikder
Personal details
Born (1955-12-05) 5 December 1955 (age 69)
Madarganj Upazila, Jamalpur District, East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh)
Alma materUniversity of Rajshahi
ProfessionDistrict and Sessions Judge

Md Jahurul Haque is a former district and sessions judge who was the commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission[1] and former chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.[2][3] He is the former Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge.

Early life

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Haque was born on 5 December 1955 in Jamalpur district, East Pakistan, Pakistan.[4]

Career

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Haque joined as the Munsef of the judicial cadre of Bangladesh Civil Service in 1983.[4]

In 2012, Haque indicted chairman of Ekushey Television Abdus Salam and its managing director Ashraful Alam on tax evasion charges.[5]

On 14 July 2014, Haque ordered the arrest of the top management of Destiny Group.[6] Haque presided over the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court in 2014.[7] He heard the hearing of the case against Muhammad Jasimuddin Rahmani.[7] He also held the hearing against former president Hussain Muhammad Ershad in a corruption case relating to the purchase of Rader in a case from 1992.[8] He placed indictments against Oishee Rahman over the murder of her parents; her father was a police officer and the incident was made adapted in web based TV show titled August 14.[9][10] He had also sent Roads and Highways Department engineer Abdul Malek to seven years imprisonment.[11] He accepted charges against Moudud Ahmed, Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician, and Monjur Ahmed, his brother, on charges of land grab in Gulshan.[12]

In 2014, Haque retired as a sessions judge.[4]

Haque had served as the legal and licensing commissioner of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC).[13] He tried to collect nearly 85 billion taka from telecom operators in back taxes in 2019.[14][15][16]

Haque was appointed chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on 31 January 2019 replacing Dr. Shahjahan Mahmood.[17][18] During his term, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission blocked the official website of Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 2018 during national elections.[19] During his term, the ownership of cellphone towers was shifted from cellphone companies to independent contractors under a decision to not allow cell phone operators to own towers.[20][21]

Haque was appointed as the commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission on 10 March 2021 with the rank of a judge of the High Court Division.[22] He considered investigating the additional secretary to the Health Services Division, Kazi Jebunnesa Begum, after she assaulted, Rozina Islam, a journalist of Prothom Alo and filed a case against her under Official Secrecy Act.[23]

References

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  1. ^ "ACC chairman, commissioners resign: Sources". The Business Standard. 29 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Moinuddin Abdullah joins ACC as new chairman". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  3. ^ "Robi, BL, Teletalk want additional spectrum allocation during shutdown period". The Daily Star. 2020-04-13. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  4. ^ a b c "Moinuddin Abdullah new ACC chairman, Jahurul Haque commissioner". The Business Standard. 2021-03-03. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  5. ^ "ETV chairman, MD indicted". The Daily Star. 2012-06-08. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  6. ^ "Court asks cops to make arrests". The Daily Star. 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  7. ^ a b "Charges against Mufti Jasim accepted". The Daily Star. 2014-10-15. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  8. ^ "Senior special judge's court to now hold trial". The Daily Star. 2014-07-09. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  9. ^ "Oishee, 2 of her friends indicted". The Daily Star. 2014-05-07. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  10. ^ "Police officer, wife murdered in bedroom". Risingbd. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  11. ^ "7yr jail for former RHD engineer". The Daily Star. 2014-04-02. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  12. ^ "Court accepts land grabbing charges against Moudud, brother". The Daily Star. 2014-09-14. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  13. ^ "BTRC to declare all operators eligible for 4G licences". The Daily Star. 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  14. ^ "Govt asks GP to pay Tk 12579.95 cr". The Daily Star. 2019-04-02. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  15. ^ "Grameenphone to pay BTRC Tk 1,000cr today". The Daily Star. 2020-05-19. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  16. ^ "BTRC audit claim unfounded: GP". The Daily Star. 2019-04-17. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  17. ^ "BTRC gets new chairman". The Daily Star. 2019-01-31. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  18. ^ "Shutting down mobile internet or social media?". The Daily Star. 2018-12-24. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  19. ^ "BNP website blocked over 'distasteful' content". The Daily Star. 2018-12-21. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  20. ^ "Four firms deposit Tk 100cr as fees for tower licences". The Daily Star. 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  21. ^ Islam, Muhammad Zahidul (2018-03-29). "BTRC to offer 4 tower company licences". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  22. ^ "Moinuddin Abdullah joins ACC as new chairman". The Financial Express. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  23. ^ "ACC to dig out wealth of addl secy Jebunnesa". businesspostbd.com. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
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