Four newly-appointed judges of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) were sworn in on Tuesday.
Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed administered the oath of office to them at 10:30am at the Supreme Court Judges' Lounge.
Earlier, President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Monday elevated them from the High Court Division to the Appellate Division Judges in line with Article 95 (1) of the Constitution.
The four new Appellate Division judges are Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury, Justice Syed Md Ziaul Karim, Justice Md Rezaul Haque and Justice SM Emdadul Hoque.
After taking oath, attorney general and Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) lawyers gave them felicitation at 12.00pm.
During the felicitation programme, they remembered the martyrs of the anti-discrimination student movement and pledged to ensure justice and to build a society without discrimination.
At the reception, Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman and later Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Senior Advocate AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon spoke.
Justice Zubair Rahman said "The purpose of mass protest is to establish democracy so that we can work for the people. This is a call to everyone in the legal profession."
"If the judiciary department is insulted, it will suffer, if there is a rich bar, there will be a rich bench," Justice Rahman said.
Justice Syed Mohammad Ziaul Karim said, "I will try to establish justice and build a non-discrimination society."
Justice Rezaul Haque said, "I wish for second freedom in return for love, forgiveness of souls of martyrs, mercy of injured. I will always try to establish justice."
Justice SM Emdadul Haque said, the victorious students against this discrimination have paved the way for a new way of walking by taking an oath to build a new Bangladesh by pouring fresh blood from their chests.
"Where there will be no discrimination, no injustice, no tyranny, no lawlessness and no torture and there will be a free and non-discriminatory state where citizens can freely express their opinions and receive justice," Justice Hoque said.
"Abu Saeed stood in front of the police with compassion and courage, maybe he hoped that the police force of our country would not say anything to him. But no, his assumption proved wrong, he was martyred by not 1, not 2, but three shots in his chest. A memory that still vibrates in everyone's heart and also inspires, then in 1971, the story of an uncle of mine, who was martyred in this way against injustice and lawlessness, came to mind," Justice Hoque noted.