Rahman was born in Jessore on 1 March 1936. His father was the lawyer Khan Bahadur Lutfur Rahman.[2] His maternal uncle Nurul Huda served as a High Court judge. He earned his master's in English literature at the University of Dhaka in 1956 and later completed his bachelor's in law from the same university.[2] He served as a faculty member of Shahid Suhrawardy College.[citation needed]
Career
Rahman started his lawyer career with the Dhaka High Court membership in 1960. He was an apprentice to Bangladesh's first attorney general MH Khandaker.[2] He became a permanent High Court judge in 1981 and an Appellate Division judge on January 15, 1990.[1]