Justice Mustafa Kamal
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The Honourable Mustafa Kamal |
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| মোস্তফা কামাল | |
Justice Mustafa Kamal - former Chief Justice of Bangladesh
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| Chief Justice of Bangladesh | |
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In office 1 June 1999 – 31 December 1999 |
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| Preceded by | A. T. M. Afzal |
| Succeeded by | Latifur Rahman |
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| Born | 9 May 1933 Domar, Rangpur District, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Died | 5 January 2015 (aged 81–82) Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Resting place | Azimpur Graveyard |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Children |
Nashid Kamal Naeela Kamal Nazeefa Kamal |
| Father | Abbasuddin Ahmed |
| Relatives |
Mustafa Zaman Abbasi (brother) Ferdausi Rahman (sister) |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Jurist |
| Website | justicemustafakamal |
Mustafa Kamal (9 May 1933 – 5 January 2015) was the 10th Chief Justice of Bangladesh. His landmark judgment was on the Masdar Hossain case, widely known as the ‘separation of judiciary', which was a milestone in the quest for separation of power between the judiciary and the executive of the state. Kamal was a pioneer of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in Bangladesh, and is considered by many as the 'father of ADR' in Bangladesh.
Mustafa Kamal was born on 9 May 1933 in the village of Domar in Rangpur District of the Bengal Presidency in British India (now in Bangladesh). He was named by the national poet of Bangladesh Kazi Nazrul Islam after the Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Kamal's father, Abbasuddin Ahmed, was a legendary Bengali renaissance singer and composer. Mustafa Kamal's younger brother, Mustafa Zaman Abbasi, is a musicologist and writer, and his younger sister, Ferdausi Rahman, is a legendary playback singer and vocalist.
Kamal spent his early childhood in the village of Balarampur of Cooch Behar - a princely state during the British Raj and now a district of West Bengal, India. Later, he was moved to the district town of Cooch Behar and attended schools from there. He was shifted with his family to Dhaka, the capital of erstwhile East Pakistan in 1947.
Justice Mustafa Kamal’s formal education started in Cooch Behar’s Jenkins School, when he got admitted in class three in 1940. Established in 1861, Jenkins School was one of the most reputed schools in the [Bengal Presidency]. He continued studying in that school until 1946, when he was transferred to Kolkata and was admitted in class nine in Ballygunge Govt. High School. Kamal had to return to his previous Cooch Behar school later in the same year for there was a communal riot in Kolkata in the month of August. He completed class nine from Jenkins School, and in January 1947, got re-admitted to Ballygunge Govt. High School in class ten. This time again, he could not finish the class in Ballygunge due to the partition of India. In August 1947, Abbasuddin Ahmed, Mustafa Kamal’s father, opted to migrate to Dhaka – the capital of East Pakistan. Before the partition was finalized, Kamal, for a brief period of time, took classes in Jenkins School. Finally in the later part of 1947, he moved to Dhaka along with his family, and got admitted in the Dhaka Collegiate School to finish class ten.
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