Badar Durrez Ahmed

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.

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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