Md Habibur Rahman

Muhammad Habibur Rahman  was a Chief Justice of Bangladesh Supreme Court in 1995. He was the Chief Adviser of the 1996 caretaker government which oversaw the Seventh parliamentary elections in Bangladesh. Rahman began his career as a lecturer in history of Dhaka University in 1952. Later he joined Rajshahi University where he subsequently held the office of Dean of the Faculty of Law (1961) and of Reader in History (1962-64).

He changed his profession in 1964 when he took to law and joined the Dhaka High Court Bar. In his legal career, he held the offices of Assistant Advocate General (1969), Vice President of High Court Bar Association (1972) and member of Bangladesh bar council(1972).

Rahman was an author of seventy books in Bengali on law, language, literature, poetry and religion and five books in English, including two books of verse. On 11 January 2014, at the age of 85, Rahman died at United Hospital, Gulshan, Dhaka.