Sardar Md. Rashed Jahangir

Sardar Md. Rashed Jahangir is a Justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court.

Early life Jahangir was born on 5 December 1972. He has an undergrad and master's in Law. The 18 newly appointed judges visited the shrine of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, to pay homage.

On 30 May 2020, Jahangir was made a permanent Judge of the High Court Division. In March 2020, Jahangir and Justice Md Ashraful Kamal issued an order asking the Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to issue a gazette notification describing COVID-19 as a communicable disease under the Communicable Diseases (Prevention, Control and Eradication) Act, 2018 following a petition filed by the Law and Life Foundation. Following which the government issued the gazette notification. Islam was picked up at night by three magistrates and police, tortured in custody, and threatened with execution for writing against the District Commissioner Sultana Pervin.

Jahangir and Justice M Enayetur Rahim upheld a decision by a court in Dhaka to order the Anti-Corruption Commission to frieze the bank accounts and the properties of AKMA Awal, former Awami League member of Parliament, and his wife. Jahangir and Justice M Enayetur Rahim questioned the legality of the allocation of 912 plots in Purbachal New Town Project, located in Gazipur District, given the allegation of irregularities in the allocation. In June 2021, Jahangir and Justice M Enayetur Rahim asked former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to submit her relevant documents proving her birth date after a petition was filed asking the court stop her celebrating her birthday on 15 August which is the National Mourning Day when former President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated. AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon represented Khaleda Zia and opposed the petition.

In March 2022, Jahangir and Justice Syed Md. Ziaul Karim confirmed the death sentence of Kabirul, fugitive son of former member of parliament Karimuddin Vorosha, in the case filed over the murder of his younger brother, Khairul Islam Vorosha, in 2009.

In May 2023, Jahangir and Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar asked Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Laureate and founder of Grameen Bank, to pay 120 million BDT on back taxes on 767.3 million BDT endowments to three of his trusts, Professor Muhammad Yunus Trust, Yunus Centre, and Yunus Family Trust from 2011 to 2014. The tax was imposed by the Deputy Commissioner of Taxes which Yunus challenged at the Tax Appellate Tribunal and lost.