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{{Short description|former Judge of the Supreme Court of India}}
{{for|the Indian theater actor|Baharul Islam (actor)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = Justice
| name = Justice Baharul Islam
| image = [[File:Justice Baharul Islam 7.jpg|frameless|159x159px]]
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|office1 = [[Member of Parliament]], [[Rajya Sabha]]
|term_start1 = 3 April 1962
|term_end1 = 20 January 1972
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| office2 = [[Supreme Court of India|Justice of the Supreme Court of India]]
| term_start2 = 4 December 1980
| term_end2 = 12 January 1983
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|office3 = [[Member of Parliament]], [[Rajya Sabha]]
|term_start3 = 15 June 1983
|term_end3 = 14 June 1989 <ref>{{cite web | url=https://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/b.pdf | title=Rajya Sabsha Members Biographical Sketches 1952–2003 | publisher=[[Rajya Sabha]] | access-date=17 March 2020}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth date|1918|3|1|df=y}}
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| death_date= {{death date and age|1993|2|5|1918|3|1|df=y}}
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| nationality = Indian
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| party = [[Indian National Congress]]<ref name="Skull">{{cite web | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/removal-motion-against-cji-a-remarkable-piece-of-skullduggery/articleshow/63873859.cms | title=Removal motion against CJI a remarkable piece of skullduggery | publisher=[[The Times of India]] | work=Dhananjay Mahapatra | date=23 April 2018 | access-date=17 March 2020}}</ref>
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| children =Mubina Islam, Nazrul Islam, Rumi Islam, Ruby Islam, Inamul Islam
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| alma_mater = [[Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University]]
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[[File:Justice Baharul Islam.jpg|thumb|Justice Baharul Islam giving speech at Gauhati High Court.]]

Justice '''Baharul Islam''' (1918-1993) was an Indian politician and judge of the Supreme Court of India.<ref name="SC-Bio">{{Cite web|title=Former Judges: Baharul Islam|publisher=Supreme Court of India|url=http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/48_bislam.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017050944/http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/48_bislam.htm|archive-date=17 October 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=20 September 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|author=Kalbag, Chaitanya |date=31 January 1983 |title=Ends of Justice |newspaper=India Today |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/justice-baharul-islam-tenders-his-resignation-from-sc-bench-to-president-zail-singh/1/371332.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922073522/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/justice-baharul-islam-tenders-his-resignation-from-sc-bench-to-president-zail-singh/1/371332.html |archive-date=22 September 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> He was elected to the [[Rajya Sabha]], upper house of the [[Parliament of India]] as a member of the [[Indian National Congress]] and in 1972 he resigned from the Rajya Sabha to become a judge in the [[Gauhati High Court]] after he retired as chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court he was recalled and made a Judge of the Supreme court. He gave a Judgement in the case absolving the then Congress Bihar Chief Minister [[Jagannath Mishra]] in the urban cooperative bank scandal<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.asianage.com/columnists/collegium-20-012 | title=Collegium 2.0 | publisher=Asian Age | work=Sudhansu Ranjan | date=3 November 2015 | access-date=17 March 2020}}</ref> and later resigned from the Supreme court to contest elections as a Congress party candidate and was elected to the [[Rajya Sabha]].<ref name="India Today">{{cite web | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19830131-justice-baharul-islam-tenders-his-resignation-from-sc-bench-to-president-zail-singh-770402-2013-07-25 | title=Justice Baharul Islam tenders his resignation from SC Bench to President Zail Singh | publisher=India Today | work=Chaitanya Kalbag | date=31 July 1983 | access-date=17 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="Pylee1998">{{cite book|author=M.V. Pylee|title=Emerging Trends of Indian Polity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mXY2ltoFn1sC&pg=PA50|year=1998|publisher=Regency Publications|isbn=978-81-86030-75-2|pages=50–}}</ref><ref name="Chandrachud2018">{{cite book|author=Abhinav Chandrachud|title=Supreme Whispers: Conversations with Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1980-89|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TstaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT183|date=29 May 2018|publisher=Penguin Random House India Private Limited|isbn=978-93-5305-021-4|pages=183–}}</ref><ref name="Skull"/>

==Early life==
Born at village Udiana PS Rangia in district of Kamrup, Assam, and educated at Gurdon High School.

==Education==
Educated at Gurdon High School, Nalbari, District Kamrup, Assam, Cotton College, Gauhati and [[Aligarh Muslim University]].

==Career==
He enrolled as an Advocate of the Assam High Court in 1951 and as an Advocate of the Supreme Court in 1958. He joined the [[Indian National Congress]] party in 1956 <ref name="Skull"/> and was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1962 and for a second term in 1968 as a member of the party. He resigned from the Rajya Sabha in 1972 and was appointed Judge of the then Assam and Nagaland High Court (Now [[Gauhati High Court]]) on 20 January 1972 . He was appointed acting Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court on 11.3.1979 and became the Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court on 7 July 1979, he retired on 1 March 1980. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of India on 4 December 1980 which was unprecedented as a retired judge is normally not appointed to the Supreme court and further he could retire after only fifteen months. He resigned from the Supreme Court on 12 January 1983 to contest from [[Barpeta (Lok Sabha constituency)|Barpeta]], [[Assam]] to the [[Lok Sabha]] as a Congress party candidate <ref name="Pylee1998"/><ref name="Manor1994">{{cite book|author=James Manor|title=Nehru to the Nineties: The Changing Office of Prime Minister in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X90G8gnoqv4C&pg=PA112|access-date=17 March 2020|year=1994|publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers|isbn=978-1-85065-180-2|pages=112–}}</ref> however as elections in [[Assam]] were postponed in the [[1984 Indian general election]], he was elected as a [[Rajya Sabha]] .<ref name="India Today"/><ref name="SC-Bio" />

He was a member of, but did not serve as the president of the Gauhati High Court Bar Association.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us: Past Presidents of the Association |publisher=Gauhati High Court Bar Association |url=http://ghconline.gov.in/Bar/aboutus.html |access-date=20 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304235854/http://ghconline.gov.in/Bar/aboutus.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Committees===
In 1987 Justice Baharul Islam committee was appointed to draft the legislation emphasizing the rights, equal opportunities, and full participation of disabled persons.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|author=Bhambhani, Meenu |year=2005 |title=Disability Policy: India |editor=Albrecht, Gary L. |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Disability, volume 1 |location=Thousand Oaks, California |publisher=Sage Publications |pages=465–467, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LwxzAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2343 page 467] |isbn=978-1-4522-6520-9}}</ref>

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[[Category:Aligarh Muslim University alumni]]
[[Category:Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University alumni]]
[[Category:Justices of the Supreme Court of India]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian judges]]
[[Category:1918 births]]
[[Category:1993 deaths]]
[[Category:Rajya Sabha members from Assam]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Assam]]
[[Category:People from Kamrup district]]

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