Md. Miftah Uddin Choudhury

Justice Md. Miftah Uddin Choudhury was a judge on the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court.

Early life Choudhury was born on 26 July 1955. He completed his bachelor's degree and master's in law.

On 25 January 2011, Choudhury asked the government to explain why the dismissal of Brigadier General Abdullahil Amaan Azmi, son of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam, from the Bangladesh Army on 23 June 2009 would not be declared illegal. Justice Jahangir Hossain who sat in the bench dissented with the verdict.

Choudhury and Justice ANM Bashir Ullah in April 2017 stayed proceedings against former prime minister Khaleda Zia in four "sabotage" cases. In June 2017, Choudhury and Justice ANM Bashir Ullah detained Abdul Baset Majumder, vice-chairman of Bangladesh Bar Council and an Awami League leader, for a few hours after he allegedly misheard the judge and got the police to release a suspect from custody. The suspect, Abdul Kuddus, was detained in an attempted murder case and was an Awami League politician in Chittagong. In October 2017, Choudhury and Justice Zafar Ahmed halting proceedings against Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, general secretary of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, in a vandalism case from 2015. On 28 November 2017, Choudhury and Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman granted bail to professor of law at the University of Dhaka Asif Nazrul in a defamation and a ICT case.

On 7 January 2018, Choudhury and Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman granted bail to Mahmudur Rahman, editor of Amar Desh, in 10 cases.

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha on 17 December 2004 allocated a plot in the third phase of Uttara Model Town (sector 15) to Choudhury. Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha cancelled the allocation which was halted by a High Court bench of Justice Md. Iqbal Kabir and Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed who ordered Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha to accept his payments in August 2019.

He retired on 25 July 2022.