Abdus Sattar (president)
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Justice Abdus Sattar |
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| আব্দুস সাত্তার | |
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| President of Bangladesh | |
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In office 30 May 1981 – 24 March 1982 |
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| Preceded by | Ziaur Rahman |
| Succeeded by | A.F.M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury |
| Vice President of Bangladesh | |
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In office June 1977 – May 1981 |
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| Preceded by | Syed Nazrul Islam |
| Succeeded by | Mirza Nurul Huda |
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| Born | 1906 Birbhum, Bengal Presidency, British Raj (now in West Bengal, India) |
| Died | 5 October 1985 Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Alma mater | University of Calcutta |
| Religion | Islam |
Abdus Sattar (Bengali: আব্দুস সাত্তার; 1906–1985) was a Bangladeshi statesman. A leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), he served as the 9th President of Bangladesh from 1981 to 1982, and earlier as the 2nd Vice President of Bangladesh. A jurist by profession, Sattar held numerous constitutional and political offices in British Bengal, East Pakistan and Bangladesh. Sattar is noted as being one of the notable Bengali jurists to have served in the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Sattar was one of the few executive presidents in the country's history. Beset by health problems and old age, his short lived presidency was marked by growing political turmoil and interference from the military. Sattar was overthrown in the 1982 Bangladesh coup d'état.
Sattar was born in 1906 in Birbhum, undivided Bengal, British India. He obtained his LLB and Master of Law from the University of Calcutta and joined the Calcutta High Court Bar. He became a protege of A. K. Fazlul Huq, the first Prime Minister of Bengal. He served in various municipal bodies in Calcutta as an activist for the Krishak Praja Party. In 1950, following the Partition of British India, Sattar moved to Dacca in the Dominion of Pakistan. He joined the Dhaka High Court Bar. He was elected to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in 1955. He served as the Home Minister of Pakistan and Education Minister of Pakistan in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar in 1957. He was appointed as a Justice in the Dhaka High Court, which he served between 1957 and 1968. He also presided over cases in the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
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