Английская Википедия:Baharul Islam

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Justice Baharul Islam in Beijing, China, participating in the Forum for Safeguarding World Peace. (June 1985)

Baharul Islam (1 March 1918 – 5 February 1993) was an Indian politician and judge of the Supreme Court of India. 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 he retired as chief justice of the Gauhati High Court. He was recalled and made a Judge of the Supreme court. He gave a Judgement in the case absolving the then Congress Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra in the urban cooperative bank scandal. Later, he resigned from the Supreme court to contest elections as a Congress party candidate and was elected to the Rajya Sabha.

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Justice Baharul Islam at Hungary as a Member of Parliament in September 1985.

Early life

He was born in the village of Udiana PS Rangia in district of Kamrup, Assam.

Islam was educated at Gurdon High School in Nalbari, District Kamrup, Assam, and Cotton College in Guwahati, as well as Aligarh Muslim University.

Career

Islam enrolled as an advocate of the Assam High Court in 1951 and as an advocate of the Supreme Court in 1958. He joined the Indian National Congress party in 1956 and was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1962. He was relected to a second term in 1968. He resigned from the Rajya Sabha in 1972 and was appointed judge of the then Assam and Nagaland High Court (Now Gauhati High Court) on 20 January 1972 . He was appointed acting chief justice of the Gauhati High Court on March 11, 1979 and became the chief justice of the Gauhati High Court on 7 July 1979, he retired on 1 March 1980. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of India on 4 December 1980 which was unprecedented,Шаблон:Cn as a retired judge is normally not appointed to the Supreme court, and further, he could retire after only fifteen months. He resigned from the Supreme Court on January 12, 1983 to contest from Barpeta, Assam to the Lok Sabha as a Congress party candidate, however as elections in Assam were postponed in the 1984 Indian general election, he was elected as a Rajya Sabha .

He was a member of, but did not serve as the president of the Gauhati High Court Bar Association.

Committees

In 1987 Islam committee was appointed to draft the legislation emphasizing the rights, equal opportunities, and full participation of disabled persons.