The Namaz-e-Janaza of former Secretary of Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association (1984-85) and former Supreme Court (SC) judge Justice Abu Sayeed Ahmed was held on the apex court premises on Saturday.
The former judge died at his residence in capital’s Wari at around 1:30pm on Friday. He was 82.
His Namaz-e-Janaza was held on the Supreme Court premises after Juhr prayer which was joined by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, judges of both the divisions of the Supreme Court, Attorney General and President of the Supreme Court Bar Association AM Amin Uddin, Secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association Barrister Ruhul Quddus Kajal, senior lawyers and former and current officials of various levels of the Supreme Court Bar.
After the janaza, the chief justice and Supreme Court Bar Association leaders paid homage to the deceased by placing a wreath at his coffin.
Barrister Masud Ahmed Sayeed Shibli, former Treasurer of the Supreme Court Bar, also the son of Justice Abu Sayeed Ahmed, told BSS that his father was suffering from various diseases due to old age.
Justice Abu Sayeed Ahmed, was buried in the family graveyard at his home in Kaliganj, Gazipur, after the last janaza after Maghrib prayer on Saturday.
Supreme Court Bar Secretary Barrister Ruhul Quddus Kajal gave an account of the career of Justice Abu Sayeed Ahmed and conducted the pre-janaza prayers in the manner of the Supreme Court Bar.
Justice Abu Sayeed Ahmed was born on 23 August in 1938 in an aristocratic Muslim family in Dhaka.
He completed SSC in 1954, HSC in 1956, BA from Dhaka College in 1958 and LLB in 1961 from City Law College.
He started his legal career in Dhaka Bar in 1963 and started his practice in the High Court in 1966.
He was a judge of the High Court Division from 1992 and retired as a Judge of the Appellate Division in 2002-2003.
