Ahsanuddin Amanullah Age, Family, Biography & More

Some Lesser Known Facts About Ahsanuddin Amanullah

• Ahsanuddin Amanullah is the judge of the Supreme Court, who was appointed to the post by President Droupadi Murmu on 4 February 2023. He has also served as a judge in the Patna High Court as well as the Andhra Pradesh High Court. He served with the Bihar government as its Advocate General.

• In the Inter-University Moot Court Competition, held at the Himachal Pradesh University in Shimla by the Bar Council of India Trust in October 1989, Ahsanuddin participated and represented Patna University.

• He began practising as an advocate in the Patna High Court after passing the examination conducted by the Bihar State Bar Council on 27 September 1991.

• Ahsanuddin has appeared before the Supreme Court as well as the High Courts of Delhi, Jharkhand, and Calcutta to represent cases related to the Constitutional, Civil, Criminal, Service, Cooperative, Taxation, Labour, Corporate, and Forest. Constitutional and Service laws are his field of specialisation.

• He has also represented his clients and handled many cases in the Central Administrative Tribunal, Commercial Taxes Tribunal, Board of Revenue, District Courts, and Consumer Disputes Redressal bodies.

• He was appointed the Assistant Returning Officer (ARO) in 2002 during the Bihar State Bar Council elections.

• He became the Assistant Returning Officer (ARO) during the 2006 elections of the Jharkhand State Bar Council.

• From March 2006 to August 2010, he served as Bihar’s Standing Counsel. Before becoming a member of the Standing Council, Ahsanuddin used to privately practice law. He left his private practice after being requested by the Advocate General of Bihar.

• After Maharashtra’s Advocate General made a special request to the Advocate General of Bihar, Ahsanuddin was sent to Maharashtra, where he appeared before the court of law, representing the State of Maharashtra, Maharashtra Police, and Mumbai Police.

• In August 2010, he assumed the position of Government Advocate and remained in the post till 2011.

• Ahsanuddin played an instrumental role from 2006 to 2011 in drafting and examining laws on behalf of the Bihar legislature.

• On 20 June 2011, he became the judge of the Patna High Court.

• Ahsanuddin has appeared before many judicial and quasi-judicial bodies to represent many cases on social issues pro bono publico, i.e., free of cost or at a low fee.

• Later, the Patna High Court appointed Ahsanuddin Amanullah as Amicus Curiae following which he provided his expert advice on numerous cases to the High Court.

• At the Jharkhand High Court in Ranchi, Ahsanuddin Amanullah served with the Income Tax Department of the Indian government as a Special Counsel.

• He later served as the Counsel for the Samastipur District Administration after the Bihar government established a commission to enquire into the Dalsingsarai (Samastipur) Firing incident.

• Throughout his career, Ahsanuddin Amanullah has appeared before several constitutional courts representing government bodies as well as private companies such as Indian Railways, Unit Trust of India, Union Bank of India, RITES (previously Rail India Technical and Economic Services Limited), Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC), Bihar State Housing Board, Bihar State Electricity Board, Bihar State Textbook Publishing Corporation, Bihar State Cooperative Bank Limited, Bihar State Cooperative Marketing Union Limited (BISCOMAUN), Bihar Cooperative Land Development Bank Limited, Bihar State Agricultural Marketing Board, Bihar State Housing Cooperative Federation, Bihar State Credit and Investment Corporation (BICICO), Commercial Taxes Department (Government of Bihar), Magadh University at Bodh Gaya, Veer Kuer Singh University at Arrah, Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority, Bihar State Health Society, Samsung Corporation (Engineering & Construction Group), Mahindra and Mahindra, etc.

• Later, he was appointed to the Patna Legal Aid Committee on Criminal Appeals by the Patna High Court. The committee was later renamed as High Court Legal Services Committee. He thereafter assumed the position of chairman of the High Court Legal Services Committee. He has also served on the Juvenile Justice Monitoring Committee as its chairman.

• He later became one of the governors of the Bihar Judicial Academy’s board of governors.

• Thereafter he assumed the position of chancellor at the Chanakya National Law University in Patna.

• In 2011, Ahsanuddin Amanullah served as a judge in a bench consisting of five judges at the Patna High Court that ordered the demolition of the Waqf Bhavan constructed in the close vicinity of the High Court. Ahsanuddin was the only judge who gave his decision against the demolition of the Bhavan. In his judgement, he said that ordering the demolition of a municipal corporation’s approved building was not justified and was a harsh punishment. He said,
  

  The structure was irregular and not an illegal one and deficiency could be removed, especially qua bringing the height of the structure within ten meters in conformity with Bye law 21. The Judge further held that the Corporation being a Government Company, its Architect would be deemed to be a Government Architect and in terms of Byelaw 8(A), therefore, once he had prepared the map for the building, no permission was required from the PMC and, even if it was assumed that the building was constructed in the absence of sanction from the competent authority, the map of the building could very well be submitted to the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) for post facto approval of the building.”

• Later, he held the position of chairman of the Bihar State Legal Services Authority (BSLSA).

• During his tenure as the judge of the Patna High Court, he delivered a speech for the Indian Administrative Services (IAS) probationers at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

• From Patna High Court, Ahsanuddin Amanullah was transferred to Andhra Pradesh High Court as a judge on 10 October 2021. He served as the judge in Andhra Pradesh till 20 June 2022.
  

  A photograph of Ahsanuddin Amanullah (left) taken when the Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court was administering the oath

• On 8 November 2021, he became the executive chairman of the Andhra Pradesh State Legal Services Authority.

• Ahsanuddin Amanullah was posted back to Patna High Court as a judge on 20 June 2022.

• On 4 February 2023, the Government of India announced that Ahsanuddin, along with four other judges, would assume the charge of the judge of the Supreme Court, thus, becoming the second judge from Patna High Court to be directly given the position of a judge in the Supreme Court. On 6 February 2023, Chief Justice of India (CJI) D. Y. Chandrachud administered the oath to Ahsanuddin following which he assumed his duties as a judge of the apex court. He will hold the position till his superannuation on 11 May 2028.
  

  Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah signing documents after taking oath as the judge of the Supreme Court