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Eminent jurist and former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Khandaker Mahbbub Hossain passed away at a hospital in Dhaka last night.

He was 84.

Mahbub, also a vice-chairman of the BNP, breathed his last at 10:40pm while undergoing treatment at the Evercare Hospital.

Mahbub was on life support at the hospital since Wednesday.

He had been suffering from different health complications. Mahbub left behind his wife, two sons, a daughter and a host of admirers to mourn his death.

Khandaker Mahbub was born on March 20, 1938, in Barguna’s Bamna village. His father Khandaker Abul Hasan was an educationalist. He joined the language movement as a high school student in Narayanganj.

After finishing high school, he went to Notre Dame College and then Dhaka University in 1958. He was elected the vice president of the Dhaka University Law Association in 1962. In the same year, he was arrested for violating Section 144.