Newly appointed Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed and two more Advisers of the interim government took oath at the Darbar Hall of Bangabhaban on Sunday.
The Advisers are Supradeep Chakma and Dr Bidhan Ranjan Roy Poddar.
President Mohammed Shahabuddin administered the oath to the newly appointed Chief Justice and the two Advisers, while another Adviser Farooq-e-Azam is yet to be sworn-in as he is still in the United States and the date of his arrival in Bangladesh is not confirmed.
Thirteen Advisers to the Interim Government headed by Nobel Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus took oath on Thursday, four days after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the county amid a student-led mass uprising.
Dr Bidhan Ranjan, Supradeep Chakma and Farooq-e-Azam could not take oath on that day as they were outside the capital.
The President appointed the High Court Judge Syed Refaat Ahmed on Saturday as Bangladesh's new Chief Justice as immediate-past Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan resigned in the afternoon.
Under the authority vested upon him under Article 95(1) of the constitution, the President appointed High Court's senior most judge, Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed, as the new Chief Justice.
The appointment came into effect from the day of his oath of office, read a notification issued by the Law Ministry. After taking the oath on Sunday he went to the Supreme Court.
Syed Refaat Ahmed is the country's 25th Chief Justice. His father late Barrister Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed was a renowned lawyer and also Advisor to the former Caretaker Government in 1996 and 2001 and his mother late Dr Sufia Ahmed was a National Professor.
Justice Ahmed was born on December 28 in 1958.
He obtained LLB (Hons) degree with first class first position from the University of Dhaka. He also obtained BA in Jurisprudence and MA from Wadham College of University of Oxford in UK, and MA in Law and Diplomacy and PhD from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA.
He was enrolled as an Advocate of the District Court, the High Court Division and the Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court in 1984, 1986 and 2002 respectively.
He was elevated as Additional Judge of the High Court Division on April 27 in 2003 and appointed Judge of the same Division on April 27 in 2005.
He has a number of publications to his credit and lectures as invited speaker extensively at home and abroad. He previously worked as a lawyer in the City of London and with the UNHCR in Hong Kong and Washington DC.
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