Amin Ahmed NPk, MBE was a jurist and chief justice of the Dacca High Court during the Pakistan era.
15 Facts About Amin Ahmed
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Amin Ahmed was born on 1 October 1899 in the village of Ahmadpur in Sonagazi, Feni, then part of the Noakhali district of the Bengal Presidency.
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Amin Ahmed was then called to the Gray's Inn and in 1924 became a Barrister-at-Law.
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Amin Ahmed then joined Calcutta University Law College as a professor of law.
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Amin Ahmed was appointed temporary judge of the Presidency Small Causes Court in 1929.
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Amin Ahmed's position was made permanent in 1932 and worked as Kolkata's Chief Rent and Rate Controller of the Premises and Hotels.
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Amin Ahmed served as the President of the Muslim Marriage Registrars' Association, Bengal Veternarary College Committee, and Dhaka Club.
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Amin Ahmed was awarded the title of Member of the Order of the British Empire by the British Government of India, and Hilal-e-Pakistan by the Pakistan Government for his meritorious services.
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Amin Ahmed wrote an autobiography; titled A Peep into the Past.
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Amin Ahmed gave the inaugural speech at the Pakistan Philosophical Congress in 1954.
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Amin Ahmed gave speech on various occasions like the Annual Dinner of the Chittagong District Bar Association in 1964, the inaugural ceremony of the New Dacca High Court Building on 24 March 1968 and the Bar Dinner at Hotel Intercontinental, Dacca on 19 January 1974.
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Amin Ahmed addressed as president, Pakistan United Nations Association on the occasion of its silver jubilee in 1970.
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Amin Ahmed had 6 daughters and one son, Aziz Ahmed.
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Amin Ahmed was the father-in-law of Bangladeshi diplomat Tabarak Husain, who married his daughter Uzra Husain.
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Amin Ahmed's grandchild, Tariq ul Hakim, is a Dhaka High Court justice.