Badar Durrez Ahmed

Hon'ble Retd. Chief Justice
Badar Durrez Ahmed
Hon'ble Retd. Chief Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed
J. S. Khehar
Appointed by	Ram Nath Kovind
Judge of Delhi High Court
	In office; 20 December 2002 – 30 March 2017
Nominated by	Gopal Ballav Pattanaik
Appointed by	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Personal details
Born	16 March 1956 (age 68); Shillong

Badar Durrez Ahmed (born 16 March 1956) is an Indian judge. He is former

Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court twice. Ahmed is presently the Secretary of the Ghalib Institute.^{[citation needed}

]

Early and personal life

Ahmed was born in 1956 in

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]

Career

Born on 16th March, 1956 in Shillong (Meghalaya), he studied in St Edmund’s College, Shillong, (1962-1966) and St Columba’s High School, New Delhi (1966-1971). He graduated from

St. Stephen’s College, Delhi in 1975 with a BA (Hons) Economics. He completed the Tripos in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1977 and was a Lecturer in Economics St Stephen's College from 1977 to 1979. ^[3] 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.^[4] 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 after 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.