Sheikh Rezowan Ali

In 2000, as the metropolitan sessions judge, Ali was the judge of the Humayun Zahir murder case, who was a director of the United Commercial Bank Limited which was forcibly taken over by Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury Babu.^[2][3][4]

On 6 November 2002, Ali and Justice Gour Gopal Saha issued a verdict which stated courts must record the reason for allowing additional evidence in an ongoing trial.^[5] On 3 July 2003, Ali was made a permanent judge of the High Court Division by President Iajuddin Ahmed.^[6]

In September 2008, Ali and Justice Md Rais Uddin rejected the bail petition of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in an extortion case filed by Noor Ali, a businessman, following a petition by her lawyer Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh.^[7][8] The bail petition was contested by the government of Bangladesh.^[9]

In January 2009, Ali and Justice Md Rais Uddin asked law enforcement agencies to not harass prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the Niko corruption case and the barge-mounted power plant corruption case.^[10]

In May 2010, Ali and Justice Habibul Gani granted bail to Mehnaz Rashid, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Khandaker Abdur Rashid, in a case filed over a bomb attack on Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh.^[11] In July 2010, Ali and Ali and Justice Md Habibul Gani halted the murder trial against 11, including justice Md. Ruhul Quddus, over the 1988 murder of a Islami Chhatra Shibir activist at the University of Rajshahi.^[12]

In June 2011, Ali and Justice Muhammad Abdul Hafiz granted bail to Abdus Salam Pintu and Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu in a case filed over the 2001 Narayanganj bombing.^[13]