Badar Durrez Ahmed

Born on 16 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 2002.

In 2002, Badar Durrez Ahmed 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 Archived 18 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine was dictated in open court on the same day.

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