Latifur Rahman, a former Chief Justice and the chief adviser of the caretaker government of Bangladesh, died on Tuesday morning.
He breathed his last at Samorita Hospital in the capital at 7.30am. Latifur had been suffering from pneumonia and old age complications, it is learnt.
He was born in Jessore on 1 March 1936. In 1979, he became the Justice as temporary basis in the High Court Division in Bangladesh. In 1981, he became the permanent Justice in the same court division.
On 15 January 1991, he became the Justice of Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.
He became the Chief Justice on 1 January 2000. He took retirement on 28 February 2001. He was the chief adviser of the 2001 (15 July 2001 to 10 October 2001) caretaker government which oversaw the eighth parliamentary election in Bangladesh.