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{{short description|President of Bangladesh in 2002}}
{{EngvarB|date=March 2017}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = Barrister
| name = Muhammad Jamir Uddin Sircar
| native_name = মুহাম্মদ জমীর উদ্দিন সরকার
| native_name_lang = bn
| office = [[President of Bangladesh]]
| status = Acting
| primeminister = [[Khaleda Zia]]
| term_start = 21 June 2002
| term_end = 6 September 2002
| predecessor = [[A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury]]
| successor = [[Iajuddin Ahmed]]
| office2 = [[Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad]]<ref name=bb>{{cite web |url=http://www.bangabhaban.gov.bd/jamiruddin.html |title=Former Presidents |publisher=Bangabhaban |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080103023353/http://www.bangabhaban.gov.bd/jamiruddin.html |archive-date=3 January 2008 |accessdate=9 April 2011}}</ref>
| primeminister2 = [[Khaleda Zia]]<br/>[[Sheikh Hasina]]
| term_start2 = 28 October 2001
| term_end2 = 25 January 2009
| predecessor2 = [[Abdul Hamid (politician)|Abdul Hamid]]
| successor2 = Abdul Hamid
| office3 = [[Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs|Minister of Law and Justice]]
| term_start3 = 19 March 1996<ref name="lawjusticediv">{{cite web |url=http://www.lawjusticediv.gov.bd/static/minister_rt_live_bak_law.php |title=Honorable Minister |website=Law and Justice Division |access-date=5 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122041816/http://www.lawjusticediv.gov.bd/static/minister_rt_live_bak_law.php |archive-date=22 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| term_end3 = 30 March 1996<ref name="lawjusticediv" />
| primeminister3 = [[Khaleda Zia]]
| predecessor3 = [[Mirza Golam Hafiz]]<ref name="lawjusticediv" />
| successor3 = [[Barrister]] [[Syed Istiaq Ahmed]]<ref name="lawjusticediv" />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1931|12|1}}
| birth_place = [[Tetulia Upazila|Tetulia]], [[Panchagarh District|Panchagarh]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Dhaka]]
| nationality = {{ubl|[[British India]]n (1931–1947)|Pakistani (1947–1971)|Bangladeshi (1971–present)}}
| website = {{URL|public.jamir uddin.com}}
| parents = Moulvi Ali Baksh and Begum Fakhrunnessa
| image =
}}

[[Barrister]] '''Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar''' ({{lang-bn|এডভোকেট মুহাম্মদ জমির উদ্দিন সরকার; born 1 December 1931}}); is a Bangladeshi [[lawyer]] and politician who served as the acting [[President of Bangladesh]] in 2002. He served as the [[Speaker of the Parliament of Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Parliament To Probe Sircar |url=http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/2009031610706/country/parliament-to-probe-sircar.html |work=Bangladesh News |date=17 March 2009 |accessdate=12 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306074420/http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/2009031610706/country/parliament-to-probe-sircar.html |archive-date=6 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is one of the founding members of the [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] and was a member of the standing committee, which was the policy making body of the party, from its inception.

==Early life==
Sircar was born to Moulvi Ali Baksh and Begum Fakhrunnessa in [[Panchagarh]] in north Bengal.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|title=Biography of Barrister Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar|url=http://public.jamiruddin.com/biography.php|work=Jamiruddin Sircar|accessdate=6 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021030456/http://public.jamiruddin.com/biography.php|archive-date=21 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> He obtained his M.A and LL.B degrees from the [[University of Dhaka]] and joined the bar to practice law in 1960. He left for London in 1961 for the degree of Barrister-at-Law and was admitted and called to the Bar by the [[Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn]], to practice law as a member of the [[English Bar]] as well as Commonwealth Countries Bar.

==Political career==

Mr Sircar went on the [[Supreme Court of Bangladesh]] to work as a Lawyer in [[Constitutional law|constitutional]], [[Civil law (common law)|civil]] and [[criminal law]]s. In 1977, he was selected by the then President [[Ziaur Rahman]] as a member of the Bangladesh Delegation to the [[United Nations General Assembly]]. As a delegate he looked after the Legal Committee and continued in this role for the next four years between 1977 and 1980. In 1981, as a [[State Minister]] of
[[Bangladesh Government]] for the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs]], he travelled to the [[UN]] to make deliberation on [[Middle East]] [[peace process]] and [[disarmament]]. He later attended the Non-aligned Movement's Labor Ministers Conference in [[Baghdad]]. He was elected to the Parliament as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party from [[Panchagarh-1]] in the General Election of 1996 & 2001
and from [[Dhaka-9]] in the by-election of 1991 in the seat of [[Begum Khaleda Zia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-5th-parliament-members-bangla?csrt=16572071795387094024 |title=List of 5th Parliament Members |website=Bangladesh Parliament |language=bn}}</ref><ref name="votemonitor">{{cite web|url=http://votemonitor.net:80/bangladesh/EADetails_1991_1996_2001.php?EA=1|title=Parliament Election Result of 1991,1996,2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics|author=|date=|website=Vote Monitor Networks|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222053944/http://votemonitor.net/bangladesh/EADetails_1991_1996_2001.php?EA=1|archive-date=22 December 2008|access-date=11 February 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> He lost the election in the December 2008.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-86994|title=Strip Sircar of MP status|date=2009-05-06|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-07-26|language=en}}</ref> He was elected in Parliament in a by-election from [[Bogra-6]] on 3 April 2009. Bogra-6 was vacated, along with [[Bogra-7]], by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-82515|title=Sircar, Moudud win by-polls|date=2009-04-03|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-07-26|language=en}}</ref>

From 28 October 2001 to 25 January 2009, he served as the [[Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-80490|title=All-party body to probe Sircar graft|date=2009-03-20|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-07-26|language=en}}</ref> On 21 June 2002, he became acting president because of the resignation of [[A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury]]. He remained acting president until a new president was elected on 6 September 2002. As speaker he refused to allow discussion on the 2004 Dhaka grenade attack in Parliament.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-73028|title=Farewell Mr. Sircar|date=2009-01-27|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-07-26|language=en}}</ref> He faced criticism for being partisan in allocating seats in the parliament.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-74534|title=Let there be rule of law|date=2009-02-06|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-07-26|language=en}}</ref> In 2008, his defence of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and call for it return to power drew criticism. The Daily Star wrote that the speaker should be above political fray.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-58689|title=Speaker ought to be above the fray|date=2008-10-15|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-07-26|language=en}}</ref>

On 13 April 2009, an Awami League led parliamentary probe body reported that Sircar took 2.7 million taka unlawfully as medical bill without the permission of Prime Minister [[Khaleda Zia]] during his tenure as speaker of the parliament.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-83983|title=Sircar drew Tk 28 lakh illegally, finds JS probe|date=2009-04-13|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-07-26|language=en}}</ref> On 8 November 2012, the Anti-Corruption Commission filed the politically motivated <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.u4.no/publications/overview-of-corruption-and-anti-corruption-in-bangladesh-2019 |title=Bangladesh: Overview of corruption and anti-corruption efforts |website=U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre |publisher=[[Chr. Michelsen Institute]]}}</ref> charges against him, alleging he misappropriating 3.3 million taka.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-256692|title=Sircar charged|date=2012-11-08|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-07-26|language=en}}</ref> Sircar moved the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and the proceedings were stayed and thereafter the Appellate Division passed an order to dispose off Sircar's judicial review applications before the High Court Division <ref>{{cite news |title=SC asks HC to dispose of defence petitions |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/sc-asks-hc-to-dispose-of-defence-petitions-26156 |work=The Daily Star |date=29 May 2014}}</ref> The judiciary of Bangladesh is severely criticized of being controlled by the government where a former chief justice was forced out of office unconstitutionally <ref>{{cite news |last=Bergman |first=David |author-link=David Bergman |date=28 September 2018 |title=Bangladesh: Ex-chief justice alleges he was ‘forced’ to resign’ |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/bangladesh-chief-justice-alleges-forced-resign-180927103453932.html |work=Al Jazeera}}</ref>

In 2018, he worked as the defence lawyer of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in the [[Zia Charitable Trust corruption case|Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/politics/anti-corruption-commission-acc-totally-fails-prove-graft-allegations-against-khaleda-zia-1518409|title='ACC totally fails to prove graft allegations against Khaleda'|date=2018-01-11|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-07-26|language=en}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Sircar is married to Nur Akhtar. Together they have a daughter, Nilufar Jamir and two sons, Nawshad Zamir and Naufal Zamir.<ref name=bio/>

==Bibliography==
* Glimpses of International Law (1997);
* The Law of the Sea (2003);
* Stronger United Nations for Peaceful Welfare World (2003);
* London-er Chatro Andolon Bangla (2005);
* London-e Bondhu Bandhob Bangla (2006);
* Oshtom Shongshoder Speaker Bangla (2006);
* Pal Raj theke Plolashi ebong British Raj theke Bongo Bhobon Bangla (2006).
* Law of the International Rivers and others Water Courses (2007);
* Pakistan-er Gonotontrer Biporjoy ebong Shadhin Bangladesh-er Obbhuddoy Bangla (2008)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://public.jamiruddin.com/publications.php|title=Publications|publisher=public.jamiruddin.com}}</ref>

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>Worldbruce: clean up, filled in refs, typo(s) fixed: in 1 December 1931 → on 1 December 1931