Sheikh Abdul Awal

Sheikh Abdul Awal is a judge of the High Court Division, Supreme Court of Bangladesh of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.

Early life Abdul Awal was born on 4 June 1960 to Sheikh Yousuff Ali and Saleha Begum. He completed a M.A., M.S.S., and law degree. On 8 October 2008 Abdul Awal and Justice AKM Fazlur Rahman ordered the government not to harass Saifur Rahman. On 17 October 2008, Abdul Awal and Justice Tariq ul Hakim granted bail to Lutfozzaman Babar, former Minister of Home Affairs, who had been sentenced to 17 years imprisonment for illegal possession of weapons by Judge Sayed Jahed Mansur.

On 8 March 2015, Abdul Awal and Justice Abu Taher Md. Saifur Rahman granted bail to an Islamic State recruit and son of a former judge of the High Court Division, Justice Abdus Salam Mamun.

On 3 March 2010, Abdul Awal and Justice Md Iman Ali declared the death penalty under the Women and Children Repression Prevention (Special) Act, 1995 illegal as it did not offer an alternate punishment besides the death penalty, which was against the constitution of Bangladesh. The verdict was delivered following a petition filed by Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust and Sukur Ali, a convicted murder and rapist sentenced to death under the act. Abdul Awal and Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty granted bail to Shahidul Alam.

Abdul Awal and Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty accepted the bail plea of two former inspector generals of police, Ashraful Huda and Shahudul Haque, on 21 January 2019 for their involvement in the 2004 Dhaka grenade attack.