Former president Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed has been laid to rest at the Banani Graveyard in Dhaka.
His burial was completed after 12pm on Sunday. Earlier in the day, his second namaz-e-janaza was held at the National Eidgah.
His first namaz-e-janaza was held at his hometown in Netrokona’s Kendua Upazila.
The 92-year-old breathed his last at the Combined Military Hospital on Saturday around 10am.
The former chief justice had been suffering from old age complications for some time and was hospitalized since late February.
Shahabuddin Ahmed, who headed the interim administration after the end of the HM Ershad regime, returned as the head of the state once again in 1996, when the Awami League took office.
After military ruler Ershad was toppled in 1990 through a civil uprising, questions arose as to who would head the interim government until a national election was held.
The political parties which led the uprising, including the Awami League and the BNP, then agreed on handing the responsibility to the then chief justice. Shahabuddin agreed on the condition that he would go back to serve as the top judge after the election.
After Ershad stepped down on December 6, 1990, Shahabuddin became the president of a non-partisan government, which oversaw the fifth national election held on February 27, 1991, through which the BNP came in power.
Following the polls, Shahabuddin went back to serve as the chief justice and ended his term.
After the Awami League took office in 1996, it made Shahabuddin the president. He served as the head of the state until November 14, 2001.
Shahabuddin was born on February 1, 1930 in Netrokona.
The son of a renowned social worker, he obtained a BA in Economics in 1951 and MA in International Relations in 1952 from Dhaka University.
He entered the Civil Service of Pakistan (CSP) in 1954, successfully completing training at the Lahore Civil Service Academy. He also attended a special course on Public Administration at the University of Oxford.
He was promoted to the post of additional deputy commissioner after serving as a magistrate and then the sub-divisional officer of Gopalganj and Natore districts.
He was transferred to the judicial branch in June 1960 and served as additional district and sessions judge in Dhaka and Barisal and as district and sessions judge of Comilla and Chittagong and then appointed as the registrar of Dhaka High Court in 1967.
In 1972, he was elevated to the bench as a judge of the High Court. Eight years later, he was appointed as an Appellate Division judge. He was appointed the chief justice on January 14, 1990.
