DHAKA, August 7, 2025 (BSS) – Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed today expressed profound shock and sorrow at the death of Begum Sitara Chowdhury, mother of his Appellate Division colleague Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury.

Sitara, wife of late Justice AFM Abdur Rahman Chowdhury, died of old age complications at the capital’s Square Hospital last night. She was 88.

The chief justice prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family members.

Begum Sitara Chowdhury is survived by two sons, two daughters, and host of relatives and well wishers to mourn her death. 

She was buried at the Banani Graveyard after namaz-e-janaza at Dhanmandi Taqwa Mosque after Zuhr prayers.