Badar Durrez Ahmed

Badar Durrez Ahmed (born 16 March 1956 at Shillong) is an Indian Judge. He is former Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court and Judge of Delhi High Court. He has served as Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court for two times.

Hon'ble Retd. Chief Justice

Badar Durrez Ahmed
Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court
In office
1 April 2017 – 15 March 2018
Nominated byJ. S. Khehar
Appointed byRam Nath Kovind
Judge of Delhi High Court
In office
20 December 2002 – 30 March 2017
Nominated byGopal Ballav Pattanaik
Appointed byA. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Personal details
Born (1956-03-16) 16 March 1956
Shillong

Early and personal life

Ahmed was born in 1956, the son of Dr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed who was President of India (24 August 1974 – 11 February 1977)[1] by his wife, Abida Begum, a lady from Haldoi. His family is related to the royal family of Loharu and to the famous Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.

Ahmed is married to Saba Begum (born on 2 February 1959), younger daughter of Nawab Sayyid Zulfikar Ali Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Rampur, by his first wife Begum Noor Bano, a politician belonging to the Congress Party. The couple has one daughter and one son.[2]

Ahmad is presently the Secretary of the Ghalib Institute.

Career

Earlier he was a Lecturer in Economics St Stephen's Coll, Delhi Univ 1977-1979. he enrolled as an Advocate in 1980 and served in the chambers of Siddhartha Shankar Ray from 1980 to 1983. He practised independently between 1983 and 1986, and became a partner in the law firm "Lawyers Associated" in 1986, remaining in that position until 2000.

In 2002, Badar Durrez was appointed a Judge of the Delhi High Court.[3] He served in that position for fifteen years, before being appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir. He served as Chief Justice from 1 April 2017 to 16 March 2018 and retired in the latter date.

During his eleven month tenure as Chief Justice of The State of Jammu and Kashmir, he delivered a landmark judgment wherein he acquitted the accused Subhash Chander Sharma, who was sentenced to death under section 302 RPC and 498A RPC by the Sessions Judge, Jammu. Subhash Chander Sharma was pleading his own case in the High Court. The Judgment was dictated in open court on the same day. The link of the case is here

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References
  1. http://presidentofindia.nic.in/formerpresidents.html Archived 10 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, p.4
  2. Christopher Buyers, March 2004 - February 2011, p.5
  3. delhihighcourt.nic.in



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