Land adviser Hassan Ariff passes away

Land adviser of the interim government AF Hassan Ariff has passed away. He breathed his last after 3:00 pm today, Friday in the capital’s Labaid Hospital.

Sources at the emergency department of the hospital said Hassan Ariff died of heart complications. The physicians declared him dead after he was brought to the hospital.

Confirming his death, acting personal secretary of the adviser in the land ministry Md Nasir Uddin said Hassan Ariff died at 3:10 pm at Labaid Hospital in Dhaka.

Hassan Ariff was appointed the adviser to the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives, and the Ministry of Land in the interim government formed on 8 August.

Later, he was appointed the adviser to the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism.

Hassan Ariff was a senior lawyer at the Supreme Court. He has been involved in the law profession since 1970. He served as the Attorney General from October 2001 to April 2005. He served as the law adviser to the caretaker government from 2008 to January 2009.

Hassan Ariff started his career as a lawyer at the Kolkata High Court in 1967. He moved to Dhaka in 1970 and became a lawyer at the High Court.

He also served as the legal adviser in various organisations, including the Road and Highways Department, Chittagong Port Authority, Mongla Port Authority, Security and Exchange Commission, Bangladesh, Chattogram Development Authority, Chittagong Stock Exchange, University Grant Commission and Grameen Phone Bangladesh. He was the serving legal adviser of the Dhakeshwari National Temple Complex.