Tafazzal Hossain Khan
Senior Supreme Court lawyer, a former minister and former High Court judge Tafazzal Hossain Khan, popularly known as TH Khan, died at a hospital in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur on Sunday afternoon.
He was 102.
TH Khan’s elder son and SC lawyer Afzal H Khan told New Age that his father died at 5:00pm at the Bangladesh Specialised Hospital at Shyamoli, where he was admitted on Sunday morning with pneumonia.
Supreme Court Bar Association’s secretary Ruhul Quddus Kazal told New Age that he came to know from the chief justice that the High Court would not sit for Monday while the Appellate Division would keep its proceedings suspended after holding morning sessions, to mourn the death of the revered lawyer.
Kazal said that his namaz-e-janaza would be held at 11:30am on the Supreme Court Bar Association’s premises on Monday.
Chief justice Hasan Foez Siddique expressed condolence for the death of TH Khan, his bereaved family member, and prayed his eternal peace.
Afzal, also a former news editor of the Daily Star, said that his father would be buried at his village in Mymensingh’s Haluaghat on Monday afternoon.
TH Khan served as High Court judge from 1969 to 1971.
He was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1979 and was appointed as minister on November 15, 1981, and given the charges of the ministries for law, education, religion, land and revenue and sport.
He was arrested in 1986 and detained for 15 days for opposing the general election under the regime of military dictator HM Ershad.
TH Khan was elected as a judge for the International War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda in 1995.
He was elected president of the Supreme Court Bar Association twice in 1977-78 and 1995-1996.
He formed Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum in 1991 and he was Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s vice chairman until his death.
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