Hoque was born on 31 January 1959.[2] He has a bachelors of science and another bachelors in law.[2]
Career
Hoque started his legal practice on 7 October 1984 in District Courts.[2]
On 11 July 1990, Hoque became a lawyer of the High Court Division and the Bangladesh Supreme Court on 27 December 2002.[2]
Hoque was appointed an Additional Judge of the High Court Division on 18 April 2010 by President M Zillur Rahman.[2][3] The swearing in ceremony of Hoque and 14 other judges was not attended by judges of the Appellate Division in an unprecedented incident.[4] He had previously served as the Additional Attorney General of Bangladesh.[3] In August, Hoque and Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain granted bail to ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon, former state minister, in an extortion case.[5]
Hoque was made a permanent judge on 15 April 2012.[2]
In August 2015, Hoque and Justice Mirza Hussain Haider stopped the move to transfer a domestic violence case against an army officer to military court.[6] They also sought an explanation on why Major General Mijanur Rahman Khan letter to Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal of Tangail requesting the transfer should not be declared illegal.[6]
In May 2017, Hoque and Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury asked the Officer-in-Charge of Ashulia station of Bangladesh Police to explain why he had handcuffed a student who was receiving treatment at Enam Medical Hospital after falling sick at a protest of students of Jahangirnagar University.[7]
In 2019, Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, after consulting with President Abdul Hamid, suspended Hoque, Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury, and Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Haque of the High Court Division.[9] Hoque and Chowdhury were suspended for issuing an illegal order to a lower court to give a verdict in favor of MR Trading Company.[10][11]
