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{{Short description|Indian judge (1918–1993)}}{{Other|Baharul Islam (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Baharul Islam
| image = Justice Baharul Islam 7.jpg
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| office2 = Judge of the [[Supreme Court of India]]
| term_start2 = 4 December 1980
| term_end2 = 12 January 1983
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|office = [[Member of Parliament]], [[Rajya Sabha]]
|term_start = 15 June 1983
|term_end = 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>
|term_start1 = 3 April 1962
|term_end1 = 20 January 1972
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1993|2|5|1918|3|1|df=y}}
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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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| alma_mater = [[Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University]]
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[[File:Justice Baharul Islam.jpg|thumb|Islam in Beijing, China, attending the Forum for Safeguarding World Peace (June 1985).|267x267px]]

'''Baharul Islam''' (1 March 1918 – 5 February 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=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 |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]], the upper house of the [[Parliament of India]], as a member of the [[Indian National Congress]]. In 1972, he resigned from the Rajya Sabha to become a judge in the [[Gauhati High Court]], where he eventually retired as Chief Justice. He was later recalled and appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court, where he delivered a judgment absolving the then-Chief Minister of Bihar, [[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> He subsequently resigned from the Supreme Court to contest elections as a Congress party candidate and was re-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"/>
[[File:Justice Baharul Islam 3.jpg|thumb|268x268px|Islam in Hungary as a Member of Parliament, September 1985.]]

==Early life==
He was born in the village of [[Udiana]] in [[Kamrup district]], [[Assam]]. Islam attended Gurdon High School in [[Nalbari]], followed by [[Cotton University]] in [[Guwahati]] and [[Aligarh Muslim University]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

==Career==
Islam enrolled as an advocate of the Assam High Court in 1951 and of the Supreme Court in 1958. He joined the [[Indian National Congress]] in 1956.<ref name="Skull"/> In 1962 and again in 1968, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha, resigning in 1972 to be appointed a judge of the then Assam and Nagaland High Court (now [[Gauhati High Court]]) on 20 January 1972. Islam was appointed acting chief justice of the Gauhati High Court on 11 March 1979 and became chief justice on 7 July 1979. He retired from this role on 1 March 1980.

On 4 December 1980, Islam was appointed to the [[Supreme Court of India]] in an unprecedented move, as retired judges were not typically reappointed.{{cn|date=May 2023}} He resigned from the Supreme Court on 12 January 1983 to contest from [[Barpeta (Lok Sabha constituency)|Barpeta]], [[Assam]], for the [[Lok Sabha]] as a Congress 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 re-elected to the [[Rajya Sabha]].<ref name="India Today" /><ref name="SC-Bio" />

He was also a member 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, the Islam Committee was appointed to draft legislation focused on 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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