Jahangir Hossain

Jahangir Hossain is a Justice of Appellate Division, Supreme Court of Bangladesh.

He was born on 31 December 1959 in Noakhali District, East Pakistan, Pakistan. He finished his LL.B and Masters in Commerce from the University of Dhaka.

In 1986, Hossain started worked as an advocate at the District and Session Judge’s Court. In 1991, he started working as an advocate at the Bangladesh High Court. He worked as a special public prosecutor in Dhaka. He notably prosecuted the murder of the first President of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. On 18 April 2010, he was appointed as an Additional Judge on the Bangladesh High Court bench. On 5 January 2012, he and Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury, sentenced a university teacher to 6 months in jail over a Facebook post on which he wished the death of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. On 15 April 2012, his appointed was made permanent. On 29 August 2012, he was appointed as a judge to the International Crimes Tribunal-1 of the International Crimes Tribunal. He faced some controversy after Skype conversation where Chairman of Tribunal, Justice Mohammad Nizamul Huq, made disparaging comments about Hossain and called him corrupt, were leaked to the media.