TBM Report
In a significant institutional realignment within the state’s apex legal apparatus, 18 high-ranking government law officers, identified as consensus members and loyalists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, have submitted a joint resignation matrix. The mass resignation, which includes 7 Deputy Attorneys General (DAG) and 11 Assistant Attorneys General (AAG), was routed through the Attorney General’s administrative deck on Tuesday afternoon (June 23, 2026), addressed directly to the President of the Republic. These legal executives had received their respective statutory appointments during the tenure of the preceding interim administration.
The Administrative Officer of the Attorney General’s Office, Md. Nasir Uddin, confirmed the development on Tuesday evening, stating that the resignation protocols are currently processed for immediate transmission to the Ministry of Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs before seeking final executive clearance from the presidential palace. According to current registry data on the Attorney General’s portal, the state apparatus maintains a standing roster of 103 Deputy Attorneys General and 229 Assistant Attorneys General, making this specific trilateral depletion a noteworthy shift in the state’s supreme litigation grid.
The resignation profiles encompass several prominent figures from the Supreme Court Bar. The senior cohort stepping down from Deputy Attorney General posts includes Md. Yusuf Ali, Muhammad Abdul Karim, Md. Golam Rahman Bhuiyan, Farid Uddin Khan, Md. Asad Uddin, and Mohammad Tariqul Islam. Concurrently, the 11 Assistant Attorneys General exiting their offices are Imran Kayes, Md. Humayun Kabir, Md. Abdul Kaiyum Bhuiyan, Abdullahil Maruf Fahim, Md. Zobaidur Rahman, Mohammad Shamsil Arefin, Mahbuba Akhter Roly, Mir A.K.M. Nurunnabi, Al Reza Md. Amir, Md. Rezaul Islam, and Md. Zakir Hossain.
Articulating the core systemic drivers behind the mass exit, resigning Deputy Attorney General Mohammad Tariqul Islam revealed to press syndicates that the decision was catalyzed by three fundamental policy regressions by the current administration. The primary grievances include the non-implementation of the historic “July Charter” (July Sanad), and the abrupt cancellation of both the “Separate Secretariat Ordinance for the Judiciary” and the “Judicial Appointment Ordinance”. Islam emphasized that their ideological alliance stands firmly for complete judicial independence from executive dominance, and the structural reversal of these democratic ordinances rendered their continued service within the state’s prosecution division untenable.
 and 11 Assistant Attorneys General (AAG), was routed through the Attorney General’s administrative deck on Tuesday afternoon (June 23, 2026), addressed directly to the President of the Republic. These legal executives had received their respective statutory appointments during the tenure of the preceding interim administration.){kind=link}