Md. Atabullah

Md. Atabullah is a Justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. He is a former District Sessions judge.^[1]

Atabullah was born on 1 November 1963 in Bhanua, Gazipur District, East Pakistan, Pakistan.^[2] He completed his SSC from Gazipur Cantonment Board High School and HSC from Dhaka College.^[2] He did his bachelor's and master's in law from the University of Dhaka in 1985 and 1987, respectively.^[2]

Atabullah joined the judicial branch of the Bangladesh Civil Service as an assistant judge on 15 February 1988.^[2]

Atabullah served as the deputy director of the Judicial Administration Training Institute.^[2] He worked in the DANIDA-JATI Project as deputy director.^[2]

In November 2018, Narsingdi District and session judge Atabullah sent Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician Khairul Kabir Khokon to jail in connection with two sabotage cases.^[3]

Dhaka Metropolitan Judge Atabullah rejected the bail petition of a police sub-inspector who had framed a man with Ya ba drugs with two police informants.^[4] He was made an additional judge of the High Court Division on 31 July 2022 along with 10 others.^{[2] [5]} He and the newly appointed judges met with President Mohammad Abdul Hamid after their appointment.^[6] In September, Atabullah and Justice Md Rezaul Hasan issued a suo moto ruling on the lynch mob killing of Taslima Begum Renu, a single mother who had gone to Badda to admit her children to a school there, on suspicion of being a kidnapper.^[7] The bench called for exemplary punishment for all involved in the lynch mob killing.^[7]