Md. Emdadul Huq

Md. Emdadul Huq is a judge of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court.

Early life Emdadul Huq was born on 16 October 1956 in Gopalganj District. He completed his bachelor's degree in law from the University of Rajshahi. On 30 July 2008, Emdadul Huq and Justice Sharif Uddin Chaklader issued a verdict halting corruption cases against six accused and granting them bail. The six accused were Syed Abdullah Muhammad Taher, former Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami member of parliament, M. A. Hashem, former Bangladesh Nationalist Party member of parliament and owner of Partex Group, Sayeed Hossain Chowdhury, owner of HRC Group, Giridhari Lal Modi, founder of Uttara Group, Syed Galib Ahmed, director of Global Agro Trade (Pvt) Company Limited (GATCO Group), and Syed Tanveer Ahmed, director of Global Agro Trade (Pvt) Company Limited (GATCO Group). The verdict was given following a news report on extrajudicial killings.

Emdadul Huq was a commissioner of the fifth Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission in 2011.

On 6 December 2017, Emdadul Huq declared the parliamentary membership of Nizam Uddin Hazari illegal while his fellow judge on the bench, Justice FRM Nazmul Ahsan, disagreed with the verdict resulting in a split verdict. The case went to Justice Md Abu Zafor Siddique who issued a verdict in favor of Nizam Uddin Hazari. He had been detained under the Digital Security Act for saying that he would pay clerics if they could prove singing was forbidden in Islam at a concert in Dhamrai.