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Rajbari

History and Tradition of Rajbari District Judge's Court

The Rajbari District Judge's Court building was not located in the exact same place where it is now. Previously, this court was located in a place called Choto Bhakla, between Rajbari Sadar Upazila and Goalanda Upazila, and was included in official records as part of the original Rajbari Greater Faridpur District. Originally, in 1898, the said Munsefi Court was established in the place of the present District Judge Court under the name Goalanda Munsefi Court and was located behind the bungalow of the present District Judge as the Munsefi Judge's chamber. At that time, there was no separate district called Rajbari. Originally known as Goalanda Sub-Division, the sub-registrar's office was located in a one-storey building behind the present Judge Court Jama Masjid, the Pearl Bar and the south-eastern corner of the Munsefi Court.

While retired District Judge Mr. Dinesh Chandra Debnath was serving as the learned Munsef here, his daughter, former Appellate Division Judge Krishna Debnath, was born in the abandoned then Munsef Judge's quarters located next to the bungalow of the current District Judge.

Mr. Abdul Wazed Chowdhury, a learned advocate of the Rajbari Bar, joined the KUSYAT as a Munsef in 1968 and his daughter Salma Ruma Chowdhury was a Member of Parliament from the Rajbari reserved women's seat while Ahmed Ali Mridha, a learned advocate of the Rajbari Bar, was the MLA at that time.
In addition, during the great Liberation War, the learned lawyer of Rajbari Bar, Mr. Kalishankar Motra, was the first lawyer of independent Bangladesh to be martyred by the Pakistani invaders, and three learned lawyers practicing at the present Rajbari District Bar, Mr. Sheikh Farid Uddin Ahmed, Mr. Ganesh Narayan Chowdhury, and Mr. Omar Ali Gano, directly participated in the Liberation War as frontline fighters.

Before the present record room, there was a witness building and in place of the record room, documents were stored in two tin buildings and that building was operated as a record room. It is said that a lot of cobras made their nests in the record room. At that time, as there was no good communication system to go to the court, people used to travel by boat using a direct connection canal with the Padma river up to Court Chattar. Later, after the division from Faridpur and the creation of Rajbari district and the subsequent creation of the Upazila Court, the present judicial system is running with this modern building along with other facilities. Several learned district judges working in the present district judge's court were later appointed as judges in the High Court.

The pond located next to the bungalow of the present district judge has been there since long ago. Five huge raintrees still stand on the banks as witnesses of time.

This was the history and prestige of the Rajbari District Judge's Court in brief.